How many baby Masoala fork-marked lemurs are in a litter?
A Masoala fork-marked lemur (Phaner furcifer) 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 3.5 kg (7.71 lbs) and measure 6.9 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Cheirogaleidae family (genus: Phaner). An adult Masoala fork-marked lemur grows up to a size of 26.1 cm (0′ 11″).
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 Masoala fork-marked lemur (Phaner furcifer), also known as the eastern fork-marked lemur or Masoala fork-crowned lemur, is a species of lemur found in the coastal forests of northeastern Madagascar. It is a small nocturnal animal with large eyes, greyish fur and a long tail.P. furcifer is a specialist feeder on the gum that exudes from insect holes on the surface of certain trees, but it supplements its gum diet with insect prey. This primate is monogamous and a single offspring is born in November or December. It is declining in numbers due to habitat destruction, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being “vulnerable”.
Other animals of the family Cheirogaleidae
Masoala fork-marked lemur is a member of the Cheirogaleidae, as are these animals:
- Gray mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur weighting only 33 grams
- Greater dwarf lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Microcebus coquereli with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sambirano mouse lemur weighting only 49 grams
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur weighting only 70 grams
- Northern rufous mouse lemur weighting only 68 grams
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden-brown mouse lemur weighting only 58 grams
- Brown mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Masoala fork-marked lemur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Plush-coated ringtail possum
- Antillean fruit-eating bat
- Northern ghost bat
- Blyth’s vole
- Long-fingered triok
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat
- Dent’s vlei rat
- Eastern hare-wallaby
- Gray-bellied night monkey
- Hairy-fronted muntjac
Animals that get as old as a Masoala fork-marked lemur
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Java mouse-deer with 12 years
- Mindanao treeshrew with 11.5 years
- Northern treeshrew with 10 years
- Northern flying squirrel with 13 years
- Brown mouse lemur with 12 years
- Bush dog with 10.33 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
- Jaguarundi with 10.58 years
- Tammar wallaby with 14 years
- Water deer with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Masoala fork-marked lemur
What other animals weight around 409 grams (0.9 lbs)?
- Social tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
- Namaqua dune mole-rat weighting 389 grams
- Tropical pocket gopher weighting 350 grams
- Silvery marmoset weighting 376 grams
- Striped possum weighting 413 grams
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat weighting 445 grams
- Gray four-eyed opossum weighting 426 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat weighting 400 grams
- Small flying fox weighting 434 grams
- Northern quoll weighting 477 grams
Animals with the same size as a Masoala fork-marked lemur
Also reaching around 26.1 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Cotton-top tamarin gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Utah prairie dog gets as big as 28.8 cm (1′ 0″)
- Amur hedgehog gets as big as 24.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Columbian ground squirrel gets as big as 29.6 cm (1′ 0″)
- Variegated squirrel gets as big as 26.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Water opossum gets as big as 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 22.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Black jackrabbit gets as big as 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Collared titi gets as big as 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)