How many baby Northern sportive lemurs are in a litter?
A Northern sportive lemur (Lepilemur septentrionalis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 135 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 27 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Megaladapidae family (genus: Lepilemur). An adult Northern sportive lemur grows up to a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″).
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 sportive lemur (Lepilemur septentrionalis), also known as the Sahafary sportive lemur or northern weasel lemur, is a species of lemur in the family Lepilemuridae. It is endemic to Madagascar. As a result of severe ecological and human pressures, the lemur is classified as Critically Endangered (CR) by the IUCN Red List, and is one of the world’s most endangered primate species.
Other animals of the family Megaladapidae
Northern sportive lemur is a member of the Megaladapidae, as are these animals:
- White-footed sportive lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-tailed sportive lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray-backed sportive lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Small-toothed sportive lemur weighting only 955 grams
- Milne-Edwards’ sportive lemur weighting only 822 grams
- Weasel sportive lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Northern sportive lemur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Ringed seal
- Mountain paca
- Grey rhebok
- Lesser tree mouse
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat
- South American sea lion
- Indian hog deer
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel
- American bison
- Antillean fruit-eating bat
Animals with the same weight as a Northern sportive lemur
What other animals weight around 760 grams (1.68 lbs)?
- Yellow ground squirrel weighting 779 grams
- Brown-tailed mongoose weighting 711 grams
- Painted ringtail possum weighting 639 grams
- Tailless tenrec weighting 894 grams
- Black flying fox weighting 609 grams
- Three-striped night monkey weighting 912 grams
- Western woolly lemur weighting 828 grams
- Giant naked-tailed rat weighting 745 grams
- White-faced spiny tree-rat weighting 610 grams
- Black lion tamarin weighting 656 grams
Animals with the same size as a Northern sportive lemur
Also reaching around 28 cm (1′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Malagasy giant rat gets as big as 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Goeldi’s marmoset gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Javan mongoose gets as big as 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Western barred bandicoot gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Hispaniolan hutia gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Golden bamboo lemur gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Northern glider gets as big as 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Back-striped weasel gets as big as 28.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Columbian ground squirrel gets as big as 29.6 cm (1′ 0″)
- Poncelet’s giant rat gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)