How many baby Gray snub-nosed monkeys are in a litter?
A Gray snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus brelichi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 200 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 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:
- Red-tailed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black crested mangabey becoming 26.75 years old
- Nilgiri langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Olive baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hamadryas baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Olive colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern plains gray langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tana River red colobus 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:
- Lowland paca
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat
- Six-banded armadillo
- Insular flying fox
- Rufous hare-wallaby
- Kitti’s hog-nosed bat
- Frosted sac-winged bat
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat
- Grandidier’s mongoose
- Spotted-winged fruit bat
Animals with the same weight as a Gray snub-nosed monkey
What other animals weight around 12.27 kg (27.04 lbs)?
- Ground pangolin usually reaching 11.92 kgs (26.28 lbs)
- Northern plains gray langur usually reaching 12.64 kgs (27.87 lbs)
- European badger usually reaching 11.89 kgs (26.21 lbs)
- Wolverine usually reaching 12.8 kgs (28.22 lbs)
- Side-striped jackal usually reaching 10.4 kgs (22.93 lbs)
- Steenbok usually reaching 11.64 kgs (25.66 lbs)
- Agile wallaby usually reaching 11.86 kgs (26.15 lbs)
- Plate-toothed giant hutia usually reaching 13.7 kgs (30.2 lbs)
- Serval usually reaching 11.9 kgs (26.23 lbs)
- Tenkile usually reaching 9.98 kgs (22 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:
- Aardwolf gets as big as 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- North American beaver gets as big as 75.7 cm (2′ 6″)
- Western red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth gets as big as 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Sharpe’s grysbok gets as big as 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Cameroon clawless otter gets as big as 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Tonkean macaque gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Fishing cat gets as big as 77.9 cm (2′ 7″)
- Delacour’s langur gets as big as 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)