How many baby Olive colobuss are in a litter?
A Olive colobus (Procolobus verus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 167 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 203 grams (0.45 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Procolobus). An adult Olive colobus grows up to a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″).
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 colobus monkey (Procolobus verus), also known as the green colobus or Van Beneden’s colobus, is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. Its English name refers to its dull olive upperparts. It is the smallest example of all colobine monkeys and is rarely observed in its natural habitat because of its cryptic coloration and secretive nature. It is found in the rain forests of West Africa, ranging from southern Sierra Leone to Nigeria. As of 2019, the IUCN Red List classifies the olive colobus as vulnerable (previously near threatened), with the cause of its decline attributed to habitat loss and hunting. Though much of the land within the range of the olive colobus has been affected by human activities, it retains its ability to thrive in small degraded forest fragments.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Olive colobus is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Barbary macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sun-tailed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-fronted surili weighting around 6.12 kilograms (13.49 lbs)
- Dusky leaf monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Diana monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moustached guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Drill (animal) with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Patas monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black colobus weighting around 9.1 kilograms (20.06 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Olive colobus
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Moose
- Little yellow bat
- Egyptian slit-faced bat
- Lesser false vampire bat
- Koala
- Coppery titi
- Anoa
- Sheep
- Hairy-legged vampire bat
- Indian hare
Animals with the same weight as a Olive colobus
What other animals weight around 3.98 kg (8.77 lbs)?
- Toque macaque usually reaching 4.66 kgs (10.27 lbs)
- Allied rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.63 kgs (10.21 lbs)
- Common spotted cuscus usually reaching 4.06 kgs (8.95 lbs)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 3.74 kgs (8.25 lbs)
- Margay usually reaching 3.27 kgs (7.21 lbs)
- Brown-throated sloth usually reaching 4 kgs (8.82 lbs)
- Red-tailed monkey usually reaching 3.54 kgs (7.8 lbs)
- Long-tailed marmot usually reaching 4.35 kgs (9.59 lbs)
- Wolf’s mona monkey usually reaching 3.26 kgs (7.19 lbs)
- Masked palm civet usually reaching 4.3 kgs (9.48 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Olive colobus
Also reaching around 45.9 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Natal red rock hare gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pileated gibbon gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red lemur gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Snowshoe hare gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Preuss’s monkey gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Peruvian spider monkey gets as big as 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Antelope jackrabbit gets as big as 54.6 cm (1′ 10″)
- De Vis’s woolly rat gets as big as 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- Brown woolly monkey gets as big as 53.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Cozumel raccoon gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)