How many baby Nilgiri langurs are in a litter?
A Nilgiri langur (Trachypithecus johnii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 455 grams (1 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Trachypithecus). An adult Nilgiri langur grows up to a size of 55.3 cm (1′ 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.
The Nilgiri langur (Semnopithecus johnii) is a langur (a type of Old World monkey) found in the Nilgiri Hills of the Western Ghats in South India. Its range also includes Kodagu in Karnataka, Kodayar Hills in Tamil Nadu, and many other hilly areas in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. This primate has glossy black fur on its body and golden brown fur on its head. It is similar in size and long-tailed like the gray langurs. Females have a white patch of fur on the inner thigh. It typically lives in troops of nine to ten monkeys. Its diet consists of fruits, shoots and leaves. The species is classified as vulnerable due to habitat destruction and poaching for its fur and flesh, the latter believed to have aphrodisiac properties.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Nilgiri langur is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sun-tailed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black crested mangabey becoming 26.75 years old
- Yellow baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pig-tailed langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-tailed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bonnet macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Maroon leaf monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Nilgiri langur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Asian golden cat
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat
- Southern reedbuck
- Black-tailed hutia
- Boehm’s bush squirrel
- Grivet
- Taruca
- Klipspringer
- Shiny guinea pig
- Olive colobus
Animals with the same weight as a Nilgiri langur
What other animals weight around 10.6 kg (23.36 lbs)?
- Red-flanked duiker usually reaching 12.06 kgs (26.59 lbs)
- Coyote usually reaching 12 kgs (26.46 lbs)
- Pennant’s colobus usually reaching 9.16 kgs (20.19 lbs)
- Pudú usually reaching 9.6 kgs (21.16 lbs)
- Agile wallaby usually reaching 11.86 kgs (26.15 lbs)
- Caracal usually reaching 11.98 kgs (26.41 lbs)
- East Javan langur usually reaching 9.72 kgs (21.43 lbs)
- Large Indian civet usually reaching 9.15 kgs (20.17 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 12.3 kgs (27.12 lbs)
- Sharpe’s grysbok usually reaching 9.37 kgs (20.66 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Nilgiri langur
Also reaching around 55.3 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Tenkile gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Brazilian porcupine gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Corsac fox gets as big as 58 cm (1′ 11″)
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Diana monkey gets as big as 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Tana River red colobus gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tayra gets as big as 61.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Preuss’s monkey gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Mona monkey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Lowland paca gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)