How many baby L’Hoest’s monkeys are in a litter?
A L’Hoest’s monkey (Cercopithecus lhoesti) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 468 grams (1.03 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Cercopithecus). An adult L’Hoest’s monkey grows up to a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″).
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.
L’Hoest’s monkey (Allochrocebus lhoesti) or mountain monkey, is a guenon found in the upper eastern Congo basin. They mostly live in mountainous forest areas in small, female-dominated groups. They have a dark coat and can be distinguished by a characteristic white beard.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
L’Hoest’s monkey 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
- De Brazza’s monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-thighed surili weighting around 5.9 kilograms (13.01 lbs)
- Stump-tailed macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hamlyn’s monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pig-tailed langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bonnet macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with L’Hoest’s monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Australian sea lion
- Western tree hyrax
- Gelada
- Dusky pademelon
- Mantled guereza
- Mediterranean horseshoe bat
- Grandidier’s mongoose
- Dryas monkey
- Southeastern myotis
- Dromedary
Animals that get as old as a L’Hoest’s monkey
Other animals that usually reach the age of 16 years:
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with 14.33 years
- Nyala with 16 years
- Bay duiker with 17 years
- Senegal bushbaby with 17 years
- Asian golden cat with 18 years
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with 15 years
- Silver dik-dik with 14 years
- Sharpe’s grysbok with 14 years
- Nine-banded armadillo with 15 years
- Royal antelope with 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a L’Hoest’s monkey
What other animals weight around 5.31 kg (11.72 lbs)?
- Desmarest’s hutia usually reaching 5.2 kgs (11.46 lbs)
- Pagai Island macaque usually reaching 4.53 kgs (9.99 lbs)
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth usually reaching 5.7 kgs (12.57 lbs)
- Thick-spined porcupine usually reaching 4.59 kgs (10.12 lbs)
- Alaskan hare usually reaching 4.85 kgs (10.69 lbs)
- Sulawesi palm civet usually reaching 5.15 kgs (11.35 lbs)
- Maned sloth usually reaching 4.47 kgs (9.85 lbs)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.55 kgs (10.03 lbs)
- Unadorned rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.56 kgs (10.05 lbs)
- Bonnet macaque usually reaching 5 kgs (11.02 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a L’Hoest’s monkey
Also reaching around 51 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Aquatic genet gets as big as 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Subalpine woolly rat gets as big as 41.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- South American gray fox gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Long-nosed mongoose gets as big as 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- Southern pig-tailed macaque gets as big as 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Dusky leaf monkey gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Diademed sifaka gets as big as 50.1 cm (1′ 8″)
- White-striped dorcopsis gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Silky cuscus gets as big as 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Müeller’s gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)