How many baby Pottos are in a litter?
A Potto (Perodicticus potto) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 193 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 37 grams (0.08 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Loridae family (genus: Perodicticus). An adult Potto grows up to a size of 32 cm (1′ 1″).
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 potto (Perodicticus potto) is a strepsirrhine primate of the family Lorisidae. It is the only species in the genus Perodicticus. It is also known as Bosman’s potto, after Willem Bosman, who described the species in 1704. In some English-speaking parts of Africa, it is called a “softly-softly”.
Other animals of the family Loridae
Potto is a member of the Loridae, as are these animals:
- Red slender loris with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden angwantibo weighting only 235 grams
- Sunda slow loris with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Calabar angwantibo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy slow loris with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Potto
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Gray bat
- Southern marsupial mole
- Nilgiri tahr
- Greater horseshoe bat
- Brown titi
- Black squirrel monkey
- Eisentraut’s shrew
- Red-rumped agouti
- Chital
- Sumatran serow
Animals that get as old as a Potto
Other animals that usually reach the age of 26 years:
- Eurasian otter with 22 years
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with 23.83 years
- Greater horseshoe bat with 30 years
- Chamois with 22 years
- Serval with 23 years
- Mountain zebra with 24 years
- European bison with 27 years
- Binturong with 22.67 years
- Mongoose lemur with 30 years
- Amazonian manatee with 30 years
Animals with the same weight as a Potto
What other animals weight around 1.08 kg (2.38 lbs)?
- Cacomistle weighting 906 grams
- Monjon usually reaching 1.26 kgs (2.78 lbs)
- Tailless tenrec weighting 894 grams
- Mexican prairie dog weighting 900 grams
- Spotted giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.04 kgs (2.29 lbs)
- Poncelet’s giant rat usually reaching 1 kgs (2.2 lbs)
- Red-bellied titi weighting 962 grams
- Gray-bellied night monkey weighting 873 grams
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur weighting 936 grams
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey weighting 888 grams
Animals with the same size as a Potto
Also reaching around 32 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Grandidier’s mongoose gets as big as 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Golden lion tamarin gets as big as 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Three-striped night monkey gets as big as 35.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Short-beaked echidna gets as big as 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Long-footed potoroo gets as big as 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Slender-tailed squirrel gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Central American squirrel monkey gets as big as 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Poncelet’s giant rat gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose gets as big as 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)