How many baby Golden snub-nosed monkeys are in a litter?
A Golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus 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 4.67 kg (10.3 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Rhinopithecus). 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:
- Pig-tailed langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s langur weighting around 6.69 kilograms (14.75 lbs)
- Thollon’s red colobus raching a size of 57 cm (1′ 11″)
- Wolf’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sooty mangabey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Angolan talapoin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hose’s langur weighting around 6.29 kilograms (13.87 lbs)
- Formosan rock macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Patas monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Celebes crested 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:
- Toque macaque
- Fallow deer
- Short-eared possum
- Moonrat
- Blue duiker
- Black-capped squirrel monkey
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Malayan tapir
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey
- Mashona mole-rat
Animals with the same weight as a Golden snub-nosed monkey
What other animals weight around 13.46 kg (29.67 lbs)?
- African civet usually reaching 12.09 kgs (26.65 lbs)
- Whiptail wallaby usually reaching 12.67 kgs (27.93 lbs)
- Ruwenzori duiker usually reaching 15 kgs (33.07 lbs)
- Dwarf musk deer usually reaching 12.39 kgs (27.32 lbs)
- Clouded leopard usually reaching 15.02 kgs (33.11 lbs)
- Caracal usually reaching 11.98 kgs (26.41 lbs)
- Proboscis monkey usually reaching 12.28 kgs (27.07 lbs)
- Siamang usually reaching 10.84 kgs (23.9 lbs)
- Ethiopian wolf usually reaching 14.38 kgs (31.7 lbs)
- Marine otter usually reaching 11.2 kgs (24.69 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:
- Malayan porcupine gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Patas monkey gets as big as 66.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Bonobo gets as big as 75.3 cm (2′ 6″)
- Bat-eared fox gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Kirk’s dik-dik gets as big as 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- Sharpe’s grysbok gets as big as 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Common genet gets as big as 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Caracal gets as big as 74.1 cm (2′ 6″)
- Pallas’s cat gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Indian crested porcupine gets as big as 75 cm (2′ 6″)