How many baby Greater dwarf lemurs are in a litter?
A Greater dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus major) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 70 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 18 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 7.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Cheirogaleidae family (genus: Cheirogaleus). An adult Greater dwarf lemur grows up to a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″).
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 greater dwarf lemur (Cheirogaleus major), or the Geoffroy’s dwarf lemur, is a lemur that is widely distributed over the primary and secondary forests near the eastern coast of Madagascar. They are also found in northern parts of Madagascar. Greater dwarf lemurs live in forests and dry scrub areas. The head and body of the greater dwarf lemur can range from 167 to 264 millimeters in length, and 164 to 600 grams. Their tails can range from 195 to 310 millimeters in length.Greater dwarf lemurs are nocturnal. During the day, they sleep in nests of twigs, leaves, and grass, or hollowed sections of trees padded with dry leaves.Their diet consists mostly of fruits, flowers, and nectar. Flower nectar is an important part of the diet from November to December. Sometimes they will also eat insects and small vertebrates. During the dry seasons they will store fat in their tail and become dormant.Its fur is short, dense, grey or reddish brown, and there are dark circles of fur around the eyes. At the end of the wet season the tail will become somewhat swollen with fat.The greater dwarf lemur is preyed upon by the ring-tailed mongoose (Galidia elegans) during the dormant season. Other predators the Malagasy tree boa (Boa manditra), the Madagascar buzzard (Buteo brachypterus), and it is thought probably by the Fossa (Cryptoprocta ferox) as well, since the latter preys on other lemurs.
Other animals of the family Cheirogaleidae
Greater dwarf lemur is a member of the Cheirogaleidae, as are these animals:
- Microcebus coquereli with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur weighting only 33 grams
- Brown mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden-brown mouse lemur weighting only 58 grams
- Sambirano mouse lemur weighting only 49 grams
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Greater dwarf lemur
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Jamaican coney
- Niobe’s shrew
- Black-headed marmoset
- Musky rat-kangaroo
- Smith’s bush squirrel
- Fishing cat
- Gray-bellied caenolestid
- Rock hyrax
- Gambian sun squirrel
- White-footed tamarin
Animals that get as old as a Greater dwarf lemur
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with 15.25 years
- Maxwell’s duiker with 12.25 years
- Müeller’s gibbon with 14.5 years
- Red panda with 14 years
- Capybara with 12 years
- Malabar large-spotted civet with 14 years
- Arctocephalus forsteri with 15 years
- Urial with 13.75 years
- Zebra duiker with 12.17 years
- Goeldi’s marmoset with 17.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Greater dwarf lemur
What other animals weight around 447 grams (0.99 lbs)?
- Pygmy spotted skunk weighting 365 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher weighting 420 grams
- Mariana fruit bat weighting 458 grams
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat weighting 439 grams
- Squirrel-toothed rat weighting 511 grams
- Darien pocket gopher weighting 437 grams
- Michoacan pocket gopher weighting 474 grams
- Brown-mantled tamarin weighting 393 grams
- Black and rufous elephant shrew weighting 423 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 403 grams
Animals with the same size as a Greater dwarf lemur
Also reaching around 22.5 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Painted treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black and red bush squirrel gets as big as 24.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Tome’s spiny rat gets as big as 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Ili pika gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Grey-bellied squirrel gets as big as 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Steinbach’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bulmer’s fruit bat gets as big as 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Long-clawed ground squirrel gets as big as 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Speckled dasyure gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)