How many baby Gee’s golden langurs are in a litter?
A Gee’s golden langur (Trachypithecus geei) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 455 grams (1 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Trachypithecus). An adult Gee’s golden langur grows up to a size of 60.5 cm (2′ 0″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
Gee’s golden langur (Trachypithecus geei), also known as simply the golden langur, is an Old World monkey found in a small region of western Assam, India and in the neighboring foothills of the Black Mountains of Bhutan. It is one of the most endangered primate species of India. Long considered sacred by many Himalayan people, the golden langur was first brought to the attention of the western world by the naturalist E. P. Gee in the 1950s. In a part of Bhutan, it has hybridised with the capped langur T. pileatus.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Gee’s golden langur is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Patas monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Campbell’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chacma baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mandrill with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Preuss’s red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sclater’s guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thollon’s red colobus raching a size of 57 cm (1′ 11″)
- Black crested mangabey becoming 26.75 years old
- Crab-eating macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Gee’s golden langur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Large flying fox
- African savanna hare
- Eastern forest bat
- White-throated guenon
- North American porcupine
- Yellow-bellied brush-furred rat
- Smaller horseshoe bat
- Hippopotamus
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Bawean deer
Animals with the same weight as a Gee’s golden langur
What other animals weight around 8.36 kg (18.43 lbs)?
- Stump-tailed macaque usually reaching 9.38 kgs (20.68 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon usually reaching 6.7 kgs (14.77 lbs)
- Western brush wallaby usually reaching 8 kgs (17.64 lbs)
- Sharpe’s grysbok usually reaching 9.37 kgs (20.66 lbs)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon usually reaching 7.32 kgs (16.14 lbs)
- Red-shanked douc usually reaching 9.48 kgs (20.9 lbs)
- Sooty mangabey usually reaching 6.94 kgs (15.3 lbs)
- Patas monkey usually reaching 7.99 kgs (17.61 lbs)
- Culpeo usually reaching 8.62 kgs (19 lbs)
- Eurasian otter usually reaching 8.86 kgs (19.53 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Gee’s golden langur
Also reaching around 60.5 cm (2′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Raccoon gets as big as 48.6 cm (1′ 8″)
- Masked palm civet gets as big as 63.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Red-handed howler gets as big as 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Japanese hare gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Aders’s duiker gets as big as 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Neotropical otter gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Black-crested Sumatran langur gets as big as 50.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Purple-faced langur gets as big as 58.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Pale-throated sloth gets as big as 54.8 cm (1′ 10″)