How many baby Golden snub-nosed monkeys are in a litter?
A Golden snub-nosed monkey (Pygathrix roxellana) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 199 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 192 grams (0.42 lbs) and measure 15 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Pygathrix). An adult Golden snub-nosed monkey grows up to a size of 64.7 cm (2′ 2″).
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 golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) is an Old World monkey in the subfamily Colobinae. It is endemic to a small area in temperate, mountainous forests of central and Southwest China. They inhabit these mountainous forests of Southwestern China at elevations of 1,500-3,400 m above sea level. The Chinese name is Sichuan golden hair monkey (四川金丝猴). It is also widely referred to as the Sichuan snub-nosed monkey. Of the three species of snub-nosed monkeys in China, the golden snub-nosed monkey is the most widely distributed throughout China.Snow occurs frequently within its range and it can withstand colder average temperatures than any other non-human primates. Its diet varies markedly with the seasons, but it is primarily a herbivore with lichens being its main food source. It is diurnal and largely arboreal, spending some 97% of its time in the canopy. There are three subspecies. Population estimates range from 8,000 to 15,000 and it is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Golden snub-nosed monkey is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Black-shanked douc with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Raffles’ banded langur weighting around 7.02 kilograms (15.48 lbs)
- Moor macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Delacour’s langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tana River mangabey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chacma baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Agile mangabey weighting around 7.11 kilograms (15.67 lbs)
- Barbary macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Golden snub-nosed monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Greater noctule bat
- Mexican long-tongued bat
- Hirola
- Tree bat
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby
- Hottentot golden mole
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Townsend’s mole
- Insular horseshoe bat
- Red-rumped agouti
Animals with the same weight as a Golden snub-nosed monkey
What other animals weight around 13.5 kg (29.76 lbs)?
- Yellow baboon usually reaching 15.82 kgs (34.88 lbs)
- Zebra duiker usually reaching 15.53 kgs (34.24 lbs)
- Clouded leopard usually reaching 15.02 kgs (33.11 lbs)
- Siamang usually reaching 10.9 kgs (24.03 lbs)
- Red-flanked duiker usually reaching 12.06 kgs (26.59 lbs)
- African golden cat usually reaching 11.29 kgs (24.89 lbs)
- Black snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 11 kgs (24.25 lbs)
- Pacarana usually reaching 12.5 kgs (27.56 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 12.27 kgs (27.05 lbs)
- Swamp wallaby usually reaching 15 kgs (33.07 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Golden snub-nosed monkey
Also reaching around 64.7 cm (2′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Günther’s dik-dik gets as big as 61.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Celebes crested macaque gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Indian crested porcupine gets as big as 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Bengal fox gets as big as 52.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Neotropical otter gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Sulawesi palm civet gets as big as 68.9 cm (2′ 4″)
- François’ langur gets as big as 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Preuss’s monkey gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Southern tamandua gets as big as 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Western red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)