How many baby Mandrills are in a litter?
A Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 174 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 613 grams (1.35 lbs) and measure 4.1 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Mandrillus). An adult Mandrill grows up to a size of 75.8 cm (2′ 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 mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is a primate of the Old World monkey (Cercopithecidae) family. It is one of two species assigned to the genus Mandrillus, along with the drill. Both the mandrill and the drill were once classified as baboons in the genus Papio, but they now have their own genus, Mandrillus. Although they look superficially like baboons, they are more closely related to Cercocebus mangabeys. Mandrills are found in southern Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Congo. Mandrills mostly live in tropical rainforest and in very large groups. Mandrills have an omnivorous diet consisting mostly of fruits and insects. Their mating season peaks in July to September, with a corresponding birth peak in December to April.Mandrills are the world’s largest monkeys. The mandrill is classified as vulnerable by IUCN.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Mandrill is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Black-footed gray langur weighting around 10.03 kilograms (22.11 lbs)
- Guinea baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Campbell’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Maroon leaf monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gee’s golden langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Formosan rock macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blue monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Delacour’s langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sclater’s guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mandrill
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Rio Mayo titi
- Nilgiri tahr
- Darling’s horseshoe bat
- Herbert River ringtail possum
- Anoa
- Michoacan deer mouse
- Natterer’s bat
- Blyth’s horseshoe bat
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby
- Red-fronted gazelle
Animals that get as old as a Mandrill
Other animals that usually reach the age of 46.25 years:
- Burchell’s zebra with 40 years
- Striped dolphin with 50 years
- Hippopotamus with 54.5 years
- Wedge-capped capuchin with 41 years
- Caspian seal with 50 years
- Polar bear with 38.17 years
- Short-beaked echidna with 50 years
- Crab-eating macaque with 38 years
- Caspian seal with 50 years
- Guinea baboon with 40 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mandrill
What other animals weight around 16.74 kg (36.91 lbs)?
- Black wallaroo usually reaching 17 kgs (37.48 lbs)
- Hairy-fronted muntjac usually reaching 18.45 kgs (40.68 lbs)
- Bay duiker usually reaching 20 kgs (44.09 lbs)
- Yellow baboon usually reaching 15.82 kgs (34.88 lbs)
- Plate-toothed giant hutia usually reaching 13.7 kgs (30.2 lbs)
- Eurasian lynx usually reaching 19.3 kgs (42.55 lbs)
- Common duiker usually reaching 15.57 kgs (34.33 lbs)
- Zebra duiker usually reaching 15.53 kgs (34.24 lbs)
- Chinkara usually reaching 18.91 kgs (41.69 lbs)
- African clawless otter usually reaching 19.16 kgs (42.24 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mandrill
Also reaching around 75.8 cm (2′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Blue duiker gets as big as 69.3 cm (2′ 4″)
- Giant armadillo gets as big as 87.4 cm (2′ 11″)
- Siberian musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Cameroon clawless otter gets as big as 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo gets as big as 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Jaguarundi gets as big as 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Black musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- King colobus gets as big as 62.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Mantled guereza gets as big as 62.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Pygathrix bieti gets as big as 71.8 cm (2′ 5″)