How many baby Gray snub-nosed monkeys are in a litter?
A Gray snub-nosed monkey (Pygathrix brelichi) 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 410 grams (0.9 lbs) and measure 15 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Pygathrix). An adult Gray snub-nosed monkey grows up to a size of 70.7 cm (2′ 4″).
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 snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus brelichi), also known as Brelich’s snub-nosed monkey, Guizhou snub-nosed monkey, and Guizhou golden monkey, is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is endemic to China, where it is known as the Guizhou golden hair monkey (黔金丝猴) or gray golden hair monkey (灰金丝猴). It is threatened by habitat loss. Of the three species of snub-nosed monkeys in China, the gray snub-nosed monkey is the most threatened, with a total population of less than 750 in around 20 groups surviving in the wild.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Gray snub-nosed monkey is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- East Javan langur weighting around 9.72 kilograms (21.43 lbs)
- Tibetan macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Delacour’s langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Formosan rock macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tana River red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-eared guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Olive baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pennant’s colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Gray snub-nosed monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Zanzibar bushbaby
- Natal long-fingered bat
- Roan antelope
- Sumatran serow
- Tiny pipistrelle
- Greater mouse-deer
- Maxwell’s duiker
- Northern elephant seal
- Steller sea lion
- Guatemalan deer mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Gray snub-nosed monkey
What other animals weight around 12.3 kg (27.12 lbs)?
- Plate-toothed giant hutia usually reaching 13.7 kgs (30.2 lbs)
- Roosevelt’s muntjac usually reaching 10.76 kgs (23.72 lbs)
- Red forest duiker usually reaching 12.36 kgs (27.25 lbs)
- Black-fronted duiker usually reaching 14.44 kgs (31.83 lbs)
- Whiptail wallaby usually reaching 12.67 kgs (27.93 lbs)
- Harvey’s duiker usually reaching 14.5 kgs (31.97 lbs)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo usually reaching 13.28 kgs (29.28 lbs)
- Siberian musk deer usually reaching 13.31 kgs (29.34 lbs)
- African civet usually reaching 12.09 kgs (26.65 lbs)
- Ground pangolin usually reaching 11.92 kgs (26.28 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Gray snub-nosed monkey
Also reaching around 70.7 cm (2′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Preuss’s red colobus gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Stump-tailed macaque gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Bristle-spined rat gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Otter civet gets as big as 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- North American beaver gets as big as 75.7 cm (2′ 6″)
- Aders’s duiker gets as big as 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Hose’s palm civet gets as big as 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
- Golden jackal gets as big as 83 cm (2′ 9″)
- Clouded leopard gets as big as 83.8 cm (2′ 9″)
- Guatemalan black howler gets as big as 56.7 cm (1′ 11″)