How many baby Lar gibbons are in a litter?
A Lar gibbon (Hylobates lar) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 212 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 399 grams (0.88 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Hylobatidae family (genus: Hylobates). An adult Lar gibbon grows up to a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″).
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 lar gibbon (Hylobates lar), also known as the white-handed gibbon, is an endangered primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae. It is one of the better-known gibbons and is often kept in captivity.
Other animals of the family Hylobatidae
Lar gibbon is a member of the Hylobatidae, as are these animals:
- Hoolock gibbon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon weighting around 7.32 kilograms (16.14 lbs)
- Kloss’s gibbon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Silvery gibbon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black crested gibbon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Agile gibbon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Siamang with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hoolock gibbon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Müeller’s gibbon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon weighting around 7.32 kilograms (16.14 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Lar gibbon
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Daubenton’s bat
- Pel’s pouched bat
- Northern glider
- Greater grison
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat
- Red-necked pademelon
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
- Indiana bat
- Jaguar
- Western tree hyrax
Animals that get as old as a Lar gibbon
Other animals that usually reach the age of 40 years:
- Grey seal with 46.67 years
- Walrus with 40 years
- Rough-toothed dolphin with 32 years
- Spotted hyena with 41.08 years
- Harbor seal with 40 years
- Harp seal with 42 years
- Asinus with 47 years
- Cat with 34 years
- Spectacled bear with 36.42 years
- Ringed seal with 46 years
Animals with the same weight as a Lar gibbon
What other animals weight around 5.6 kg (12.35 lbs)?
- Brown howler usually reaching 5.19 kgs (11.44 lbs)
- Hose’s langur usually reaching 6.29 kgs (13.87 lbs)
- Red-handed howler usually reaching 6.17 kgs (13.6 lbs)
- Javan surili usually reaching 6.57 kgs (14.48 lbs)
- Sulawesi palm civet usually reaching 5.15 kgs (11.35 lbs)
- Tasmanian pademelon usually reaching 5.85 kgs (12.9 lbs)
- Brown woolly monkey usually reaching 6.27 kgs (13.82 lbs)
- Plains viscacha usually reaching 4.66 kgs (10.27 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon usually reaching 6.7 kgs (14.77 lbs)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 4.95 kgs (10.91 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Lar gibbon
Also reaching around 54.5 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Proboscis monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Hispid hare gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Crab-eating raccoon gets as big as 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Red panda gets as big as 58.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- South American gray fox gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Ethiopian highland hare gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Java mouse-deer gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Müeller’s gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black howler gets as big as 55.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Common genet gets as big as 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)