How many baby Grivets are in a litter?
A Grivet (Chlorocebus aethiops) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 82 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 173 grams (0.38 lbs) and measure 7.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Chlorocebus). An adult Grivet grows up to a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″).
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 grivet (Chlorocebus aethiops), also known as African green monkey and savannah monkey is an Old World monkey with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face. Some authorities consider this and all of the members of the genus Chlorocebus to be a single species, Cercopithecus aethiops. As here defined, the grivet is restricted to Ethiopia, Sudan, Djibouti and Eritrea. In the southern part of its range, it comes into contact with the closely related vervet monkey (C. pygerythrus) and Bale Mountains vervet (C. djamdjamensis). Hybridization between them is possible, and may present a threat to the vulnerable Bale Mountains vervet. Unlike that species, the grivet is common and rated as Least Concern by the IUCN.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Grivet is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Hose’s langur weighting around 6.29 kilograms (13.87 lbs)
- Red-tailed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sclater’s guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dent’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pig-tailed langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Celebes crested macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tana River red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pagai Island macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Guinea baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Grivet
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Atlantic titi
- Maxwell’s duiker
- Cuban solenodon
- Sinaloan mastiff bat
- Admiralty flying fox
- Waterbuck
- Caspian seal
- Striped dolphin
- Barasingha
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest
Animals that get as old as a Grivet
Other animals that usually reach the age of 31.58 years:
- Black crested mangabey with 26.75 years
- Rough-toothed dolphin with 32 years
- African civet with 28 years
- Giant anteater with 26 years
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with 30 years
- Grévy’s zebra with 26 years
- Northern fur seal with 35 years
- White-bellied spider monkey with 28 years
- Anoa with 36 years
- Red-tailed monkey with 28.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Grivet
What other animals weight around 3.86 kg (8.52 lbs)?
- Common spotted cuscus usually reaching 4.06 kgs (8.95 lbs)
- Asian palm civet usually reaching 3.2 kgs (7.05 lbs)
- Bay cat usually reaching 3.43 kgs (7.56 lbs)
- Short-eared possum usually reaching 3.13 kgs (6.9 lbs)
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 4.06 kgs (8.95 lbs)
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey usually reaching 3.24 kgs (7.14 lbs)
- Golden-backed uakari usually reaching 3.13 kgs (6.9 lbs)
- European hare usually reaching 3.82 kgs (8.42 lbs)
- Pampas fox usually reaching 4.54 kgs (10.01 lbs)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 3.74 kgs (8.25 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Grivet
Also reaching around 56 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Campbell’s mona monkey gets as big as 45.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Raccoon gets as big as 48.6 cm (1′ 8″)
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Cape fox gets as big as 53.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Sable gets as big as 45.1 cm (1′ 6″)
- Red-shanked douc gets as big as 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Owston’s palm civet gets as big as 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tana River red colobus gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Aquatic genet gets as big as 45.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- White-fronted surili gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)