How many baby Microcebus coquerelis are in a litter?
A Microcebus coquereli (Microcebus coquereli) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 88 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 12 grams (0.03 lbs) and measure 9.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Cheirogaleidae family (genus: Microcebus). An adult Microcebus coquereli grows up to a size of 23.1 cm (0′ 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.
Other animals of the family Cheirogaleidae
Microcebus coquereli is a member of the Cheirogaleidae, as are these animals:
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur weighting only 70 grams
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur weighting only 33 grams
- Sambirano mouse lemur weighting only 49 grams
- Brown mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Greater dwarf lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy mouse lemur with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Microcebus coquereli
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- De Vis’s woolly rat
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
- Mediterranean monk seal
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat
- Mexican free-tailed bat
- Madagascan large free-tailed bat
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Western broad-nosed bat
- Angola colobus
- Agile wallaby
Animals that get as old as a Microcebus coquereli
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15.25 years:
- Greater dwarf lemur with 15 years
- Rhim gazelle with 14 years
- Pygmy sperm whale with 17 years
- Günther’s dik-dik with 14 years
- Pudú with 12.5 years
- Maxwell’s duiker with 12.25 years
- Hirola with 15.17 years
- Philippine tarsier with 15 years
- Pygmy marmoset with 15.08 years
- Giant eland with 16.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Microcebus coquereli
What other animals weight around 328 grams (0.72 lbs)?
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat weighting 291 grams
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Bunker’s woodrat weighting 375 grams
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat weighting 304 grams
- Montane bamboo rat weighting 382 grams
- Magdalena spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Spiny Ceram rat weighting 306 grams
- Santarem marmoset weighting 375 grams
- Black-tufted marmoset weighting 340 grams
- Silvery marmoset weighting 376 grams
Animals with the same size as a Microcebus coquereli
Also reaching around 23.1 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Summit rat gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Yellow-bellied weasel gets as big as 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Red bush squirrel gets as big as 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Smoky flying squirrel gets as big as 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Unstriped ground squirrel gets as big as 22.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Big-headed African mole-rat gets as big as 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Eastern small-toothed rat gets as big as 24.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Long-fingered triok gets as big as 23.5 cm (0′ 10″)