How many baby Gray-bellied night monkeys are in a litter?
A Gray-bellied night monkey (Aotus lemurinus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 132 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 97 grams (0.21 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cebidae family (genus: Aotus). An adult Gray-bellied night monkey grows up to a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 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 gray-bellied night monkey (Aotus lemurinus), also called the grey-legged douroucouli or lemurine owl monkey, is a small New World monkey of the family Aotidae. Native to tropical and subtropical forests of South America, the gray-bellied night monkey faces a significant threat from hunting, harvesting for use in pharmaceutical research and habitat destruction.
Other animals of the family Cebidae
Gray-bellied night monkey is a member of the Cebidae, as are these animals:
- Hershkovitz’s titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Colombian white-faced capuchin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spix’s night monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ashy black titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black capuchin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mantled howler with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peruvian night monkey weighting only 800 grams
- Rio Mayo titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Venezuelan red howler with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peruvian spider monkey weighting around 7.09 kilograms (15.63 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Gray-bellied night monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby
- Common ringtail possum
- Malayan porcupine
- Great flying fox
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat
- Southern African vlei rat
- Leschenault’s rousette
- Sun bear
- Highland brush mouse
- Maned sloth
Animals that get as old as a Gray-bellied night monkey
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18 years:
- Red forest duiker with 15 years
- Lesser kudu with 18.92 years
- Cheetah with 19 years
- Himalayan goral with 17.58 years
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with 16 years
- Common pipistrelle with 16.67 years
- Golden jackal with 16 years
- Springbok with 20 years
- Pygmy sperm whale with 17 years
- Grey long-eared bat with 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a Gray-bellied night monkey
What other animals weight around 873 grams (1.92 lbs)?
- Large flying fox usually reaching 1.03 kgs (2.27 lbs)
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupine weighting 736 grams
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine weighting 751 grams
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum weighting 765 grams
- Angolan kusimanse weighting 700 grams
- Nancy Ma’s night monkey weighting 791 grams
- Cacomistle weighting 906 grams
- Moluccan flying fox weighting 728 grams
- Ollala brothers’s titi weighting 992 grams
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk weighting 960 grams
Animals with the same size as a Gray-bellied night monkey
Also reaching around 30.5 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- New Britain water rat gets as big as 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Basilan flying squirrel gets as big as 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Brown-eared woolly opossum gets as big as 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Bulmer’s fruit bat gets as big as 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Red-handed tamarin gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Striped polecat gets as big as 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black-capped squirrel monkey gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Raffray’s bandicoot gets as big as 34.6 cm (1′ 2″)
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew gets as big as 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black-tailed prairie dog gets as big as 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)