How many baby Grey-cheeked mangabeys are in a litter?
A Grey-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus albigena) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 182 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 499 grams (1.1 lbs) and measure 91.3 cm (3′ 0″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Lophocebus). An adult Grey-cheeked mangabey grows up to a size of 51.9 cm (1′ 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 grey-cheeked mangabey (Lophocebus albigena), also known as the white-cheeked mangabey, is an Old World monkey found in the forests of Central Africa. It ranges from Cameroon down to Gabon. The grey-cheeked mangabey is a dark monkey, looking in shape overall like a small, hairy baboon. Its thick brown fur is almost black in its forest home, with a slightly rufus/golden mane around the neck. The sexes are similar, with the males slightly larger than the females.The grey-cheeked mangabey lives in a variety of habitats with the forests of Central Africa, it is generally thought to live in either swamp or primary forests, in some areas it has also been found in secondary forest as well. Some authors in the past have considered the species to be restricted to the forest canopy, however more recently habituated troops have been observed on the forest floor collecting food. It feeds primarily on fruit, particularly figs, taking other fruits seasonally, as well as shoots, flowers and insects.The grey-cheeked mangabey lives in groups of between 5 and 30 individuals. The groups have either a single male or (more usually) several, without a single dominant male. Young males leave the troop once they are adult and join other troops, whereas the females stay in the troop of their birth. If troops become too large they may split. Confrontations between troops are rare, as this mangabey will usually avoid other troops. Their territories cover several square miles of forest, and can both overlap with other troops and shift over time.Three subspecies of this mangabey were previously recognized. In 2007, Colin Groves elevated them all to species level, splitting one (johnstoni) into two species.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Grey-cheeked mangabey is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Olive baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pennant’s colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- King colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Agile mangabey weighting around 7.11 kilograms (15.67 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-eared guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Allen’s swamp monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Preuss’s red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moor macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Grey-cheeked mangabey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Serotine bat
- Tiny pipistrelle
- Pygmy killer whale
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis
- Campbell’s mona monkey
- Spectral bat
- Lowland paca
- Melanomys caliginosus
- Steller’s sea cow
- Greater dog-like bat
Animals that get as old as a Grey-cheeked mangabey
Other animals that usually reach the age of 32.67 years:
- Bonnet macaque with 30 years
- Bobcat with 32.33 years
- Rough-toothed dolphin with 32 years
- Honey badger with 26.5 years
- Ryukyu flying fox with 31 years
- Tiger with 26.25 years
- Ring-tailed lemur with 30 years
- Red deer with 26.75 years
- Crested servaline genet with 34 years
- Wolf with 29.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Grey-cheeked mangabey
What other animals weight around 7.39 kg (16.29 lbs)?
- Preuss’s red colobus usually reaching 8.87 kgs (19.55 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker usually reaching 8.44 kgs (18.61 lbs)
- Mentawai langur usually reaching 6.45 kgs (14.22 lbs)
- Phayre’s leaf monkey usually reaching 7.69 kgs (16.95 lbs)
- Mantled howler usually reaching 6.58 kgs (14.51 lbs)
- Rhesus macaque usually reaching 6.45 kgs (14.22 lbs)
- White-cheeked spider monkey usually reaching 6.24 kgs (13.76 lbs)
- Short-eared dog usually reaching 8.36 kgs (18.43 lbs)
- François’ langur usually reaching 8.16 kgs (17.99 lbs)
- Andean mountain cat usually reaching 8.13 kgs (17.92 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Grey-cheeked mangabey
Also reaching around 51.9 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Bristle-spined rat gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Hoary fox gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Platypus gets as big as 41.9 cm (1′ 5″)
- White-fronted surili gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Bay cat gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Crested servaline genet gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pampas cat gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Alpine woolly rat gets as big as 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Indian pangolin gets as big as 54.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Crab-eating macaque gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)