How many baby Patas monkeys are in a litter?
A Patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas) 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 623 grams (1.37 lbs) and measure 2.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Erythrocebus). An adult Patas monkey grows up to a size of 66.5 cm (2′ 3″).
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 patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas), also known as the wadi monkey or hussar monkey, is a ground-dwelling monkey distributed over semi-arid areas of West Africa, and into East Africa. It was formerly considered the only member of the genus Erythrocebus, but the Blue Nile patas monkey, previously synonymized with this species, was resurrected in 2018.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Patas monkey is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Silvery lutung with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gee’s golden langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Preuss’s monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Agile mangabey weighting around 7.11 kilograms (15.67 lbs)
- Rhesus macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crab-eating macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-shanked douc with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Toque macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grivet with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Patas monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sunda flying lemur
- Eastern forest bat
- Bush vlei rat
- Jaguar
- Northern plains gray langur
- Urial
- Black crested gibbon
- Western white-eared giant rat
- Sowerby’s beaked whale
- Barasingha
Animals that get as old as a Patas monkey
Other animals that usually reach the age of 23.83 years:
- Malayan porcupine with 27.25 years
- Sable antelope with 22.25 years
- Sitatunga with 21.5 years
- Domestic yak with 22.25 years
- Northern elephant seal with 20.25 years
- South Asian river dolphin with 28 years
- Finless porpoise with 23 years
- Eld’s deer with 19.33 years
- Black-fronted duiker with 19.67 years
- Barbary sheep with 21 years
Animals with the same weight as a Patas monkey
What other animals weight around 7.99 kg (17.61 lbs)?
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey usually reaching 8.27 kgs (18.23 lbs)
- Northern nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 6.5 kgs (14.33 lbs)
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 7.98 kgs (17.59 lbs)
- Bolivian red howler usually reaching 6.61 kgs (14.57 lbs)
- Black-backed jackal usually reaching 8.29 kgs (18.28 lbs)
- Pygmy hog usually reaching 7.92 kgs (17.46 lbs)
- Tana River mangabey usually reaching 7.08 kgs (15.61 lbs)
- Indian pangolin usually reaching 8.02 kgs (17.68 lbs)
- François’ langur usually reaching 8.16 kgs (17.99 lbs)
- Fishing cat usually reaching 8.83 kgs (19.47 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Patas monkey
Also reaching around 66.5 cm (2′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Barbary macaque gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Maned sloth gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Dusky pademelon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Gee’s golden langur gets as big as 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Tasmanian devil gets as big as 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Drill (animal) gets as big as 70 cm (2′ 4″)
- Southern tamandua gets as big as 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth gets as big as 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- White-nosed coati gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)