How many baby Greater spot-nosed monkeys are in a litter?
A Greater spot-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 169 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 404 grams (0.89 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Cercopithecus). An adult Greater spot-nosed monkey grows up to a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″).
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 spot-nosed monkey or putty-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans) is one of the smallest Old World monkeys. It is a guenon of the C. mitis group, native to West Africa and living to some extent in rain forests, but more often in the transition zone between rain forest and savannah. It is primarily arboreal and often associates with monkeys of other species. Both their common names come from the monkeys’ prominent white nose.The greater spot-nosed monkey lives in groups consisting of one adult male, a number of adult females, and their dependent offspring. Little recent research has been conducted into its behaviour, and most has concentrated on its auditory communication. Males use three call types which have been described as ‘booms’, ‘pyows’, and ‘hacks’. These are used in a number of contexts including as alarm calls.As in some other species of monkeys, the acoustical structure of greater spot-nosed monkey alarm calls it has been argued to vary according to the kind of predator spotted. The monkey reportedly combines different sounds into a sequence, which has an entirely different meaning from the sounds out of which it is made. For instance, the sound “pyow” alone means another animal, like a leopard, is lurking nearby, and “hack” means a flying animal, like an eagle, is flying nearby, but when the two are combined, as in the sequence “pyow pyow hack hack hack hack”, they have an entirely different meaning: Let’s get out of here and move to another place.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Greater spot-nosed monkey is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Red-tailed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygathrix bieti weighting around 11 kilograms (24.25 lbs)
- Maroon leaf monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Purple-faced langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-footed gray langur weighting around 10.03 kilograms (22.11 lbs)
- Nilgiri langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bonnet macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan surili with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dent’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Toque macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Greater spot-nosed monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sei whale
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat
- Nabarlek
- Schreber’s yellow bat
- Thumbless bat
- Prevost’s squirrel
- Black wildebeest
- Greater mouse-eared bat
- Thomas’s rope squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Greater spot-nosed monkey
Other animals that usually reach the age of 23 years:
- Finless porpoise with 23 years
- Jaguar with 23 years
- Brown-mantled tamarin with 24.5 years
- Takin with 19.5 years
- Verreaux’s sifaka with 20.58 years
- Lesser horseshoe bat with 21 years
- Margay with 20 years
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with 19.75 years
- Greater mouse-eared bat with 22 years
- Chamois with 22 years
Animals with the same weight as a Greater spot-nosed monkey
What other animals weight around 5.26 kg (11.59 lbs)?
- Pampas fox usually reaching 4.54 kgs (10.01 lbs)
- Allen’s swamp monkey usually reaching 4.75 kgs (10.47 lbs)
- Crab-eating macaque usually reaching 4.58 kgs (10.1 lbs)
- Suni usually reaching 5.63 kgs (12.41 lbs)
- Brown howler usually reaching 5.19 kgs (11.44 lbs)
- Red-legged pademelon usually reaching 4.53 kgs (9.99 lbs)
- Godman’s rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.75 kgs (10.47 lbs)
- Mexican agouti usually reaching 5 kgs (11.02 lbs)
- Red-necked pademelon usually reaching 5.4 kgs (11.9 lbs)
- Agile gibbon usually reaching 5.85 kgs (12.9 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Greater spot-nosed monkey
Also reaching around 54.9 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby gets as big as 52.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Moustached guenon gets as big as 52 cm (1′ 9″)
- Preuss’s monkey gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- South American gray fox gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- African palm civet gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Barbary macaque gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red-shanked douc gets as big as 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Diademed sifaka gets as big as 50.1 cm (1′ 8″)
- Bush dog gets as big as 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)