How many baby Gray-backed sportive lemurs are in a litter?
A Gray-backed sportive lemur (Lepilemur dorsalis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 158 grams (0.35 lbs) and measure 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Megaladapidae family (genus: Lepilemur). An adult Gray-backed sportive lemur grows up to a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 11″).
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 gray-backed sportive lemur (Lepilemur dorsalis), also known as Gray’s sportive lemur or back-striped sportive lemur, is a species of lemur in the family Lepilemuridae. It is endemic to Madagascar. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Other animals of the family Megaladapidae
Gray-backed sportive lemur is a member of the Megaladapidae, as are these animals:
- Small-toothed sportive lemur weighting only 955 grams
- White-footed sportive lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-tailed sportive lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Milne-Edwards’ sportive lemur weighting only 822 grams
- Weasel sportive lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern sportive lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Gray-backed sportive lemur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Japanese macaque
- Roosevelt’s muntjac
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat
- Proboscis monkey
- Ashy black titi
- Striped bandicoot
- Ozimops planiceps
- Great flying fox
- Dormer’s bat
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle
Animals with the same weight as a Gray-backed sportive lemur
What other animals weight around 506 grams (1.12 lbs)?
- Short-furred Atlantic tree-rat weighting 439 grams
- White-lipped tamarin weighting 509 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher weighting 420 grams
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat weighting 502 grams
- Superagüi lion tamarin weighting 605 grams
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat weighting 502 grams
- Eastern gray squirrel weighting 546 grams
- White-footed tamarin weighting 457 grams
- Numbat weighting 517 grams
- Indonesian mountain weasel weighting 466 grams
Animals with the same size as a Gray-backed sportive lemur
Also reaching around 25.5 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Bushy-tailed woodrat gets as big as 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pichi gets as big as 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Eastern gray squirrel gets as big as 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Japen rat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat gets as big as 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Stoat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Lowland ringtail possum gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Basilan flying squirrel gets as big as 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Common degu gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Buffy-headed marmoset gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)