How many baby Geladas are in a litter?
A Gelada (Theropithecus gelada) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 178 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 465 grams (1.03 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Theropithecus). An adult Gelada grows up to a size of 62 cm (2′ 1″).
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.
The gelada (Theropithecus gelada, Amharic: ጭላዳ, romanized: č̣əlada), sometimes called the bleeding-heart monkey or the gelada “baboon”, is a species of Old World monkey found only in the Ethiopian Highlands, with large populations in the Semien Mountains. Geladas are actually not baboons (baboons are all taxonomic members of the genus Papio) but the only living members of the genus Theropithecus. Theropithecus is derived from the Greek root words for “beast-ape”. Like its close relatives the baboons (genus Papio), it is largely terrestrial, spending much of its time foraging in grasslands.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Gelada is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Pagai Island macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-thighed surili weighting around 5.9 kilograms (13.01 lbs)
- Drill (animal) with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sooty mangabey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Delacour’s langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- East Javan langur weighting around 9.72 kilograms (21.43 lbs)
- Agile mangabey weighting around 7.11 kilograms (15.67 lbs)
- Booted macaque weighting around 2.75 kilograms (6.06 lbs)
- Thollon’s red colobus raching a size of 57 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals that share a litter size with Gelada
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Miniopterus macrocneme
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- Eastern rock elephant shrew
- Caspian seal
- Aye-aye
- Baikal seal
- Nyala
- Snow sheep
- Addax
Animals that get as old as a Gelada
Other animals that usually reach the age of 28 years:
- Sun bear with 24.75 years
- Tamaraw with 28 years
- Japanese macaque with 33 years
- Jaguar with 23 years
- Allen’s swamp monkey with 23 years
- West Indian manatee with 30 years
- Crested mona monkey with 24.08 years
- Common eland with 24.33 years
- Subantarctic fur seal with 23 years
- Striped hyena with 24 years
Animals with the same weight as a Gelada
What other animals weight around 15.98 kg (35.23 lbs)?
- Golden snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 13.46 kgs (29.67 lbs)
- Pygmy brocket usually reaching 16.5 kgs (36.38 lbs)
- Eurasian beaver usually reaching 19 kgs (41.89 lbs)
- Peters’s duiker usually reaching 18.94 kgs (41.76 lbs)
- Ethiopian wolf usually reaching 14.38 kgs (31.7 lbs)
- White-bellied duiker usually reaching 13.1 kgs (28.88 lbs)
- Oribi usually reaching 17.16 kgs (37.83 lbs)
- Reeves’s muntjac usually reaching 13.5 kgs (29.76 lbs)
- Saudi gazelle usually reaching 16 kgs (35.27 lbs)
- Binturong usually reaching 13 kgs (28.66 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Gelada
Also reaching around 62 cm (2′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- King colobus gets as big as 62.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Culpeo gets as big as 72 cm (2′ 5″)
- Crab-eating mongoose gets as big as 50.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Culpeo gets as big as 72.4 cm (2′ 5″)
- Red-legged pademelon gets as big as 56.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Bobcat gets as big as 69.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Southern muriqui gets as big as 57.8 cm (1′ 11″)
- Black crested mangabey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- American badger gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tasmanian devil gets as big as 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)