How many baby Olive baboons are in a litter?
A Olive baboon (Papio anubis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 178 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 947 grams (2.09 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Papio). An adult Olive baboon grows up to a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″).
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 olive baboon (Papio anubis), also called the Anubis baboon, is a member of the family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys). The species is the most wide-ranging of all baboons, being found in 25 countries throughout Africa, extending from Mali eastward to Ethiopia and Tanzania. Isolated populations are also present in some mountainous regions of the Sahara. It inhabits savannahs, steppes, and forests. The common name is derived from its coat colour, which is a shade of green-grey at a distance. A variety of communications, vocal and non-vocal, facilitate a complex social structure.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Olive baboon is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Dent’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sun-tailed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Delacour’s langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Silvery lutung with 1 babies per pregnancy
- François’ langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sooty mangabey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blue monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pennant’s colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Olive baboon
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Red deer
- Moonrat
- Eastern forest bat
- Small flying fox
- Maroon leaf monkey
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
- White rhinoceros
- Grant’s gazelle
- Naked-rumped tomb bat
- Subalpine woolly rat
Animals that get as old as a Olive baboon
Other animals that usually reach the age of 25.17 years:
- Reindeer with 20.17 years
- Common wombat with 26.08 years
- Eurasian beaver with 25 years
- Galápagos fur seal with 22 years
- Blue monkey with 27.08 years
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with 21 years
- Red-bellied titi with 25.25 years
- African buffalo with 29.5 years
- Bahamian raccoon with 21 years
- West Indian manatee with 30 years
Animals with the same weight as a Olive baboon
What other animals weight around 17.73 kg (39.08 lbs)?
- Swamp wallaby usually reaching 15 kgs (33.07 lbs)
- Gray brocket usually reaching 16.4 kgs (36.16 lbs)
- Collared peccary usually reaching 21.19 kgs (46.72 lbs)
- Ruwenzori duiker usually reaching 15 kgs (33.07 lbs)
- Indian crested porcupine usually reaching 14.3 kgs (31.53 lbs)
- Speke’s gazelle usually reaching 20 kgs (44.09 lbs)
- African clawless otter usually reaching 19.16 kgs (42.24 lbs)
- Dwarf brocket usually reaching 16.04 kgs (35.36 lbs)
- Red brocket usually reaching 20.42 kgs (45.02 lbs)
- Hairy-fronted muntjac usually reaching 18.45 kgs (40.68 lbs)