How many baby Mentawai langurs are in a litter?
A Mentawai langur (Presbytis potenziani) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 18.3 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Presbytis). An adult Mentawai langur 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.
The Mentawai langur (Presbytis potenziani) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is endemic to the Mentawai Islands in Indonesia.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. The Siberut langur (P. siberu) was formerly considered a subspecies of the Mentawai langur..
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Mentawai langur is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Phayre’s leaf monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan surili with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dent’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Capped langur weighting around 11.21 kilograms (24.71 lbs)
- De Brazza’s monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s langur weighting around 6.69 kilograms (14.75 lbs)
- Moustached guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-footed gray langur weighting around 10.03 kilograms (22.11 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Mentawai langur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Horsfield’s tarsier
- Rodrigues flying fox
- Green ringtail possum
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
- Harp seal
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin
- Black-striped wallaby
- Common pipistrelle
- Dormer’s bat
Animals with the same weight as a Mentawai langur
What other animals weight around 6.45 kg (14.23 lbs)?
- Coypu usually reaching 6.36 kgs (14.02 lbs)
- Hairy-nosed otter usually reaching 5.97 kgs (13.16 lbs)
- Sun-tailed monkey usually reaching 5.26 kgs (11.6 lbs)
- Kloss’s gibbon usually reaching 5.84 kgs (12.87 lbs)
- Olympic marmot usually reaching 6.3 kgs (13.89 lbs)
- Tana River mangabey usually reaching 7.08 kgs (15.61 lbs)
- Ursine colobus usually reaching 7.7 kgs (16.98 lbs)
- Agile gibbon usually reaching 5.85 kgs (12.9 lbs)
- Bobcat usually reaching 6.38 kgs (14.07 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur usually reaching 7.39 kgs (16.29 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mentawai langur
Also reaching around 51 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Olive colobus gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Black crested mangabey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Bengal fox gets as big as 52.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Ground cuscus gets as big as 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Zanzibar red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Sechuran fox gets as big as 56.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Margay gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Rhesus macaque gets as big as 55.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Blue monkey gets as big as 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)