How many baby Moustached guenons are in a litter?
A Moustached guenon (Cercopithecus cephus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 169 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 338 grams (0.75 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Cercopithecus). An adult Moustached guenon grows up to a size of 52 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 moustached guenon or moustached monkey (Cercopithecus cephus) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Moustached guenon is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Preuss’s red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Guinea baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Booted macaque weighting around 2.75 kilograms (6.06 lbs)
- Dent’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Allen’s swamp monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-throated guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sun-tailed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygathrix bieti weighting around 11 kilograms (24.25 lbs)
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Moustached guenon
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Tropical vlei rat
- Western brush wallaby
- Red giant flying squirrel
- Aye-aye
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Red-faced spider monkey
- Grant’s gazelle
- Davis’s round-eared bat
- Daubenton’s bat
- Eastern forest bat
Animals that get as old as a Moustached guenon
Other animals that usually reach the age of 23 years:
- Sunda slow loris with 26.5 years
- Mountain zebra with 24 years
- Bechstein’s bat with 21 years
- Sitatunga with 21.5 years
- White-tailed deer with 23 years
- Eastern grey kangaroo with 24 years
- Koala with 20 years
- Southern elephant seal with 23 years
- Guadalupe fur seal with 24 years
- Sambar deer with 26.42 years
Animals with the same weight as a Moustached guenon
What other animals weight around 3.44 kg (7.59 lbs)?
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain usually reaching 3.11 kgs (6.86 lbs)
- Small Indian civet usually reaching 2.95 kgs (6.5 lbs)
- Short-eared possum usually reaching 3.13 kgs (6.9 lbs)
- Groundhog usually reaching 3.88 kgs (8.55 lbs)
- Common spotted cuscus usually reaching 4.06 kgs (8.95 lbs)
- Southern tree hyrax usually reaching 3.18 kgs (7.01 lbs)
- Broom hare usually reaching 2.83 kgs (6.24 lbs)
- Western tree hyrax usually reaching 3.18 kgs (7.01 lbs)
- White-throated guenon usually reaching 3.44 kgs (7.58 lbs)
- Red-eared guenon usually reaching 3.25 kgs (7.17 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Moustached guenon
Also reaching around 52 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Arctic hare gets as big as 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Thick-spined porcupine gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Alpine woolly rat gets as big as 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Brown woolly monkey gets as big as 53.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Hoolock gibbon gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Java mouse-deer gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Black-headed spider monkey gets as big as 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Selous’s mongoose gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Marbled cat gets as big as 51.7 cm (1′ 9″)
- Scrub hare gets as big as 49.5 cm (1′ 8″)