How many baby Monk sakis are in a litter?
A Monk saki (Pithecia monachus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 119 grams (0.26 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Cebidae family (genus: Pithecia). An adult Monk saki grows up to a size of 41.1 cm (1′ 5″).
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 monk saki (Pithecia monachus) also known as Geoffroy’s monk saki or Miller’s monk saki, is a species of saki monkey, a type of New World monkey, from South America. It is found in forested areas of northwestern Brazil, northeastern Peru, eastern Ecuador and southeastern Colombia. This monkey can grow up to be 30 to 50 centimetres (12 to 20 in) long and weigh about 1 to 2 kilograms (2 lb 3 oz to 4 lb 7 oz), approximately the same as a large rabbit. The thick, bushy tail can be up to 25 to 55 centimetres (10 to 22 in) long. It has coarse fur, which is long and shaggy around the face and neck. A shy, wary animal, it is totally arboreal, living high in the trees and sometimes descending to lower levels but not to the ground. It generally moves on all fours but may sometimes walk upright on a large branch and will leap across gaps. During the day, it moves in pairs or small family groups, feeding on fruits, berries, honey, some leaves, small mammals such as mice and bats, and birds. The female gives birth to 1 young per mating season with the average family size being 4.5.
Other animals of the family Cebidae
Monk saki is a member of the Cebidae, as are these animals:
- Aotus infulatus weighting only 800 grams
- Black-headed marmoset with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mantled howler with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ollala brothers’s titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hoffmanns’s titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-bellied night monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Equatorial saki becoming 14.83 years old
- White-cheeked spider monkey weighting around 6.24 kilograms (13.76 lbs)
- Spix’s night monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-bellied spider monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Monk saki
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Indian rhinoceros
- Pale spear-nosed bat
- South African springhare
- Kitti’s hog-nosed bat
- Suni
- Bushy-tailed mongoose
- Shrew-faced squirrel
- Indian pangolin
- Bunyoro rabbit
- Hirola
Animals that get as old as a Monk saki
Other animals that usually reach the age of 24.58 years:
- Three-striped night monkey with 25.25 years
- Aardwolf with 25 years
- Sun bear with 24.75 years
- Common wombat with 26.08 years
- Lesser horseshoe bat with 21 years
- Sika deer with 25.42 years
- Northern olingo with 25 years
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with 21 years
- South Asian river dolphin with 28 years
- Tamaraw with 28 years
Animals with the same weight as a Monk saki
What other animals weight around 2.11 kg (4.65 lbs)?
- Virginia opossum usually reaching 2.46 kgs (5.42 lbs)
- Bunyoro rabbit usually reaching 2.51 kgs (5.53 lbs)
- Rusty-spotted genet usually reaching 1.95 kgs (4.3 lbs)
- Black lemur usually reaching 2.48 kgs (5.47 lbs)
- Gray-headed lemur usually reaching 2.4 kgs (5.29 lbs)
- Silver dik-dik usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Steppe polecat usually reaching 1.69 kgs (3.73 lbs)
- African savanna hare usually reaching 1.76 kgs (3.88 lbs)
- Sanford’s brown lemur usually reaching 2.39 kgs (5.27 lbs)
- Cape genet usually reaching 2.07 kgs (4.56 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Monk saki
Also reaching around 41.1 cm (1′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- White-nosed saki gets as big as 44 cm (1′ 6″)
- Alexander’s kusimanse gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Aquatic genet gets as big as 45.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- Sunda flying lemur gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Platypus gets as big as 41.9 cm (1′ 5″)
- Ring-tailed lemur gets as big as 42.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Bushy-tailed mongoose gets as big as 44.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- Common kusimanse gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Reclusive ringtail possum gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Tufted capuchin gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)