How many baby Peleng tarsiers are in a litter?
A Peleng tarsier (Tarsius pelengensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 1.7 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Tarsiidae family (genus: Tarsius). An adult Peleng tarsier grows up to a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Peleng tarsier (Tarsius pelengensis), or the Peleng Island tarsier, is a nocturnal primate found on the island of Peleng, just east of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Other animals of the family Tarsiidae
Peleng tarsier is a member of the Tarsiidae, as are these animals:
- Philippine tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sangihe tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dian’s tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Horsfield’s tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spectral tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dian’s tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spectral tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Peleng tarsier
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat
- Allen’s swamp monkey
- Wroughton’s free-tailed bat
- Eld’s deer
- South American sea lion
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
- Grey-headed flying fox
- Micronomus
- Tana River mangabey
- Angola colobus
Animals with the same weight as a Peleng tarsier
What other animals weight around 165 grams (0.36 lbs)?
- Peters’s climbing rat weighting 182 grams
- Short-furred dasyure weighting 161 grams
- Maxomys baeodon weighting 159 grams
- Mira climbing rat weighting 184 grams
- Island mouse weighting 164 grams
- Ruddy treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Alston’s mouse opossum weighting 132 grams
- Talas tuco-tuco weighting 141 grams
- Long-footed treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Indian palm squirrel weighting 136 grams