How many baby Pennant’s colobuss are in a litter?
A Pennant’s colobus (Procolobus pennantii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 164 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 Pennant’s colobus grows up to a size of 56.9 cm (1′ 11″).
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.
Pennant’s colobus or Pennant’s red colobus (Piliocolobus pennantii) is a species of tree-dwelling primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is endemic to tropical Central Africa. Three subspecies have traditionally been recognised but its distribution is peculiarly disjunct and has been considered a biogeographical puzzle. with one population on the island of Bioko (Equatorial Guinea), a second in the Niger River Delta in southern Nigeria, and a third in east-central Republic of Congo. It is found in rainforests and marshy forests. It is threatened by habitat loss and hunting for bushmeat. One subspecies, bouvieri, is rated as critically endangered; although it was last photographically documented in 2015, it may be on the brink of extinction.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Pennant’s colobus is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- L’Hoest’s monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Barbary macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Formosan rock macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dryas monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky leaf monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Capped langur weighting around 11.21 kilograms (24.71 lbs)
- Collared mangabey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gelada with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Pennant’s colobus
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Llama
- Midas free-tailed bat
- Lar gibbon
- Mountain tapir
- Boehm’s bush squirrel
- Philippine tarsier
- Proboscis monkey
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
- Bicolored-spined porcupine
- Harbor seal
Animals with the same weight as a Pennant’s colobus
What other animals weight around 9.16 kg (20.19 lbs)?
- Tasmanian devil usually reaching 8.2 kgs (18.08 lbs)
- Large Indian civet usually reaching 9.15 kgs (20.17 lbs)
- Hog badger usually reaching 8.17 kgs (18.01 lbs)
- Sharpe’s grysbok usually reaching 9.37 kgs (20.66 lbs)
- Andean mountain cat usually reaching 8.13 kgs (17.92 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur usually reaching 7.39 kgs (16.29 lbs)
- Smooth-coated otter usually reaching 8.96 kgs (19.75 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker usually reaching 8.44 kgs (18.61 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 9.12 kgs (20.11 lbs)
- Southern muriqui usually reaching 10.57 kgs (23.3 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pennant’s colobus
Also reaching around 56.9 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Philippine porcupine gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Blue monkey gets as big as 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Black-footed gray langur gets as big as 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- Pampas cat gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Indian pangolin gets as big as 54.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Wolf’s mona monkey gets as big as 48 cm (1′ 7″)
- Tenkile gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Common spotted cuscus gets as big as 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- African palm civet gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)