How many baby Hairy-eared dwarf lemurs are in a litter?
A Hairy-eared dwarf lemur (Allocebus trichotis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 241 grams (0.53 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cheirogaleidae family (genus: Allocebus). An adult Hairy-eared dwarf lemur grows up to a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″).
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 hairy-eared dwarf lemur (Allocebus trichotis), or hairy-eared mouse lemur, is one of the most scarcely known lemurs. A. trichotis is a nocturnal lemur that is endemic to Madagascar. It was originally named by Dr. Albert Günther in 1875 as Cheirogaleus trichotis as part of the Cheirogaleidae family, or the dwarf lemurs. However, in 1967 Petter-Rousseaux and Petter reassigned the lemur to its own genus and is the now only member of the genus Allocebus. The hairy-eared dwarf lemur was thought to be extinct until its rediscovery in 1989 in a northeastern primary lowland rainforest. The population of these mammals is shown to be severely decreasing and largely fragmented throughout Northern and Eastern Madagascar rainforests; most likely due to hunting, trapping, slash-and-burn agriculture as well as habitat fragmentation.
Other animals of the family Cheirogaleidae
Hairy-eared dwarf lemur is a member of the Cheirogaleidae, as are these animals:
- Brown mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur weighting only 33 grams
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater dwarf lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sambirano mouse lemur weighting only 49 grams
- Pygmy mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gray mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur weighting only 70 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat
- Mantled guereza
- Moor macaque
- Tufted capuchin
- Asian golden cat
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat
- Fulvus roundleaf bat
- Tasmanian pademelon
- Dorcas gazelle
- Sunda flying lemur
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
What other animals weight around 78 grams (0.17 lbs)?
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat weighting 90 grams
- Crab-eating rat weighting 66 grams
- Big bonneted bat weighting 83 grams
- Angolan rousette weighting 67 grams
- Eastern mole weighting 87 grams
- Long-footed water rat weighting 83 grams
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat weighting 90 grams
- Townsend’s chipmunk weighting 79 grams
- Woodland Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Acacia rat weighting 77 grams
Animals with the same size as a Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
Also reaching around 13.3 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Robinson’s mouse opossum gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Heath mouse gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bush vlei rat gets as big as 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dark-tailed tree rat gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pale field rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Taiwan vole gets as big as 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sugar glider gets as big as 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- New Caledonia flying fox gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat gets as big as 13 cm (0′ 6″)