How many baby Moor macaques are in a litter?
A Moor macaque (Macaca maura) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 167 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 389 grams (0.86 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Macaca). An adult Moor macaque grows up to a size of 66 cm (2′ 2″).
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 moor macaque (Macaca maura) is a macaque with brown/black body fur with a pale rump patch and pink bare skin on the rump. It is about 50–58.5 cm long, and eats figs, bamboo seeds, buds, sprouts, invertebrates and cereals in tropical rainforests. It is sometimes called “dog-ape” because of its dog-like muzzle, although it is no more closely related to apes than any other Old World monkey is. It is endemic to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.The moor macaque is threatened mostly due to habitat loss from an expanding human population and deforestation to increase agricultural land area. The population is estimated to have decreased from 56,000 to under 10,000 from 1983 to 1994.In 1992, Supriatna et al. (1992) conducted an extensive survey and found only 3,000–5,000 individuals (2,500 mature) of the species. The survey estimated densities to be 25–50 individuals/km2 (18.7SD). Because several Sulawesi macaque species are endangered, information on ecology and behaviour is essential and conservation management plans are being conducted.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Moor macaque is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- L’Hoest’s monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tana River red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s langur weighting around 6.69 kilograms (14.75 lbs)
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pig-tailed langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sclater’s guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gee’s golden langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Guinea baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crested mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Patas monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Moor macaque
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Harp seal
- Calabar angwantibo
- Rothschild’s woolly rat
- Eastern long-fingered bat
- Hirola
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat
- Greater spot-nosed monkey
- White-bellied spider monkey
- Short-snouted elephant shrew
- Chamois
Animals with the same weight as a Moor macaque
What other animals weight around 7.29 kg (16.07 lbs)?
- American badger usually reaching 7.84 kgs (17.28 lbs)
- Raccoon usually reaching 6.37 kgs (14.04 lbs)
- Celebes crested macaque usually reaching 7.37 kgs (16.25 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker usually reaching 8.56 kgs (18.87 lbs)
- Western red colobus usually reaching 8.43 kgs (18.58 lbs)
- Andean mountain cat usually reaching 8.13 kgs (17.92 lbs)
- Lowland paca usually reaching 8.18 kgs (18.03 lbs)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 8.31 kgs (18.32 lbs)
- Lion-tailed macaque usually reaching 6 kgs (13.23 lbs)
- Crab-eating raccoon usually reaching 6.94 kgs (15.3 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Moor macaque
Also reaching around 66 cm (2′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Andean mountain cat gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Jungle cat gets as big as 70.6 cm (2′ 4″)
- Northern plains gray langur gets as big as 61 cm (2′ 1″)
- Red-flanked duiker gets as big as 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Bristle-spined rat gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red-handed howler gets as big as 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Masked palm civet gets as big as 63.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Bat-eared fox gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Greater mouse-deer gets as big as 56.2 cm (1′ 11″)