How many baby Guatemalan black howlers are in a litter?
A Guatemalan black howler (Alouatta pigra) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 185 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 480 grams (1.06 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cebidae family (genus: Alouatta). An adult Guatemalan black howler grows up to a size of 56.7 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 Guatemalan black howler, or Yucatan black howler, (Alouatta pigra) is a species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, from Central America. It is found in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico, in and near the Yucatan Peninsula. It lives in evergreen, semideciduous and lowland rain forests. It is also known as the baboon in Belize, although it is not closely related to the baboons in Africa.
Other animals of the family Cebidae
Guatemalan black howler is a member of the Cebidae, as are these animals:
- Rio Mayo titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Emilia’s marmoset weighting only 309 grams
- Brown howler weighting around 5.19 kilograms (11.44 lbs)
- Equatorial saki becoming 14.83 years old
- White-faced saki with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hershkovitz’s marmoset with 2 babies per pregnancy
- White-nosed saki with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-cheeked spider monkey weighting around 6.24 kilograms (13.76 lbs)
- Black-capped squirrel monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-handed howler weighting around 6.17 kilograms (13.6 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Guatemalan black howler
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
- Ocelot
- Gee’s golden langur
- Red-necked pademelon
- Checkered elephant shrew
- Rock cavy
- Mantled guereza
- Yellow baboon
- Common thick-thumbed bat
- Tenkile
Animals that get as old as a Guatemalan black howler
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20 years:
- Scimitar oryx with 20.42 years
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with 19.75 years
- American marten with 19 years
- Dall’s porpoise with 22 years
- South American coati with 17.67 years
- Common marmoset with 16.75 years
- Moustached guenon with 23 years
- Common tsessebe with 18 years
- Alpine ibex with 22.25 years
- Senegal bushbaby with 17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Guatemalan black howler
What other animals weight around 7.19 kg (15.84 lbs)?
- Western brush wallaby usually reaching 8 kgs (17.64 lbs)
- Koala usually reaching 6.55 kgs (14.44 lbs)
- Crab-eating raccoon usually reaching 6.94 kgs (15.3 lbs)
- Raffles’ banded langur usually reaching 7.02 kgs (15.48 lbs)
- Black crested gibbon usually reaching 6.43 kgs (14.18 lbs)
- Bobcat usually reaching 6.38 kgs (14.07 lbs)
- Jaguarundi usually reaching 6.88 kgs (15.17 lbs)
- Sarcophilus laniarius usually reaching 8.35 kgs (18.41 lbs)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon usually reaching 7.32 kgs (16.14 lbs)
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth usually reaching 6.61 kgs (14.57 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Guatemalan black howler
Also reaching around 56.7 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Beech marten gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Brown dorcopsis gets as big as 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Crab-eating macaque gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Gray dorcopsis gets as big as 66.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Java mouse-deer gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Malayan porcupine gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Andean mountain cat gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Gelada gets as big as 62 cm (2′ 1″)
- Rüppell’s fox gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Corsac fox gets as big as 58 cm (1′ 11″)