How many baby Philippine tarsiers are in a litter?
A Philippine tarsier (Tarsius syrichta) 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 25 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 5 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Tarsiidae family (genus: Tarsius). An adult Philippine 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 Philippine tarsier (Carlito syrichta), known locally as mawumag in Cebuano and other Visayan languages, magô in Waray and mamag in Tagalog, is a species of tarsier endemic to the Philippines. It is found in the southeastern part of the archipelago, particularly on the islands of Bohol, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao. It is a member of the approximately 45-million-year-old family Tarsiidae, whose name is derived from its elongated “tarsus” or ankle bone. Formerly a member of the genus Tarsius, it is now listed as the only member of the genus Carlito, a new genus named after the conservationist Carlito Pizarras.Its geographic range also includes Maripipi Island, Siargao Island, Basilan Island and Dinagat Island. Tarsiers have also been reported in Sarangani, although they may be different subspecies. It was introduced to Western biologists during the 20th century.
Other animals of the family Tarsiidae
Philippine tarsier is a member of the Tarsiidae, as are these animals:
- Pygmy tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dian’s tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spectral tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sangihe tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Spectral tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peleng tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Horsfield’s tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dian’s tarsier with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Philippine tarsier
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Eastern bettong
- Aye-aye
- Siamang
- Tropical vlei rat
- Tree pangolin
- Moustached tamarin
- Big-eared woolly bat
- Scimitar oryx
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
Animals that get as old as a Philippine tarsier
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- Greater bamboo lemur with 12 years
- Red slender loris with 16.33 years
- Urial with 13.75 years
- Yellow-throated marten with 14 years
- Grant’s gazelle with 12.67 years
- Brown palm civet with 12 years
- Masked palm civet with 18 years
- Indian muntjac with 17.58 years
- Long-tailed goral with 13.17 years
- Spectral tarsier with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Philippine tarsier
What other animals weight around 116 grams (0.26 lbs)?
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse weighting 100 grams
- Australian swamp rat weighting 106 grams
- Common treeshrew weighting 132 grams
- Pale leaf-eared mouse weighting 102 grams
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat weighting 119 grams
- Spotted ground squirrel weighting 107 grams
- Hastings River mouse weighting 95 grams
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
- Southern African vlei rat weighting 114 grams
- European water vole weighting 120 grams
Animals with the same size as a Philippine tarsier
Also reaching around 11.7 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Sclater’s golden mole gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eastern mole gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied caenolestid gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- California kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-eared squirrel gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan shrew gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Van Deusen’s rat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Van Deusen’s rat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)