How many baby Northern greater galagos are in a litter?
A Northern greater galago (Otolemur garnettii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 132 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 49 grams (0.11 lbs) and measure 15.2 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Galagonidae family (genus: Otolemur). An adult Northern greater galago grows up to a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″).
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 northern greater galago (Otolemur garnettii), also known as Garnett’s greater galago or small-eared greater galago, is a nocturnal, arboreal primate endemic to Africa.
Other animals of the family Galagonidae
Northern greater galago is a member of the Galagonidae, as are these animals:
- Northern needle-clawed bushbaby weighting only 278 grams
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Senegal bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mohol bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Zanzibar bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky bushbaby weighting only 213 grams
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown greater galago with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Somali bushbaby weighting only 250 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Northern greater galago
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- La Plata dolphin
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Tree bat
- Southern tamandua
- Pygmy slow loris
- Northern brushtail possum
- Roan antelope
- Steller’s sea cow
- Lar gibbon
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat
Animals that get as old as a Northern greater galago
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17 years:
- Hartebeest with 20 years
- Sharpe’s grysbok with 14 years
- Pygmy marmoset with 15.08 years
- Rhim gazelle with 14 years
- Suni with 14 years
- Red brocket with 13.75 years
- Jentink’s duiker with 17.5 years
- Microcebus coquereli with 15.25 years
- Lesser kudu with 18.92 years
- Red forest duiker with 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a Northern greater galago
What other animals weight around 812 grams (1.79 lbs)?
- Three-striped night monkey weighting 912 grams
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel weighting 675 grams
- Yellow ground squirrel weighting 779 grams
- Black squirrel monkey weighting 784 grams
- White-eared titi weighting 898 grams
- North African hedgehog weighting 931 grams
- Black-bearded flying fox weighting 872 grams
- Long-tailed ground squirrel weighting 743 grams
- Mottle-faced tamarin weighting 803 grams
- Western gray squirrel weighting 704 grams