How many baby Hamadryas baboons are in a litter?
A Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 179 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 878 grams (1.94 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Papio). An adult Hamadryas baboon grows up to a size of 67.5 cm (2′ 3″).
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 hamadryas baboon (; Papio hamadryas) is a species of baboon from the Old World monkey family. It is the northernmost of all the baboons, being native to the Horn of Africa and the southwestern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. These regions provide habitats with the advantage for this species of fewer natural predators than central or southern Africa where other baboons reside. The hamadryas baboon was a sacred animal to the ancient Egyptians and appears in various roles in ancient Egyptian religion, hence its alternative name of ‘sacred baboon’.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Hamadryas baboon is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Booted macaque weighting around 2.75 kilograms (6.06 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-shanked douc with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gee’s golden langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern plains gray langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky leaf monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Angola colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hamlyn’s monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grivet with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hamadryas baboon
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Caspian seal
- Fraser’s dolphin
- Hooded seal
- Woylie
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat
- Sugar glider
- Blue whale
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Parma wallaby
Animals that get as old as a Hamadryas baboon
Other animals that usually reach the age of 40 years:
- Anoa with 36 years
- Black crested gibbon with 44.08 years
- Red-faced spider monkey with 37.75 years
- Wedge-capped capuchin with 41 years
- Sumatran rhinoceros with 35 years
- Crab-eating macaque with 38 years
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with 32 years
- Harbor seal with 40 years
- Black rhinoceros with 47 years
- Rough-toothed dolphin with 32 years
Animals with the same weight as a Hamadryas baboon
What other animals weight around 14.97 kg (33.01 lbs)?
- Golden snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 13.46 kgs (29.67 lbs)
- Water deer usually reaching 12.73 kgs (28.06 lbs)
- Pacarana usually reaching 12.5 kgs (27.56 lbs)
- Mérida brocket usually reaching 16.5 kgs (36.38 lbs)
- Klipspringer usually reaching 13.46 kgs (29.67 lbs)
- Gelada usually reaching 15.98 kgs (35.23 lbs)
- Malabar large-spotted civet usually reaching 12.08 kgs (26.63 lbs)
- Common duiker usually reaching 15.57 kgs (34.33 lbs)
- Whiptail wallaby usually reaching 12.67 kgs (27.93 lbs)
- Coyote usually reaching 12 kgs (26.46 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Hamadryas baboon
Also reaching around 67.5 cm (2′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Red-legged pademelon gets as big as 56.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- European badger gets as big as 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Chinese mountain cat gets as big as 78.6 cm (2′ 7″)
- Hose’s palm civet gets as big as 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Guatemalan black howler gets as big as 56.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Angola colobus gets as big as 56.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Sarcophilus laniarius gets as big as 55.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pampas fox gets as big as 61.9 cm (2′ 1″)