How many baby Preuss’s monkeys are in a litter?
A Preuss’s monkey (Cercopithecus preussi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 338 grams (0.75 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Cercopithecus). An adult Preuss’s monkey grows up to a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″).
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 Preuss’s monkey (Allochrocebus preussi), also known as Preuss’s guenon, is a diurnal primate that lives terrestrially in mountainous (up to 2500 m) forests of eastern Nigeria, western Cameroon and Bioko in Equatorial Guinea. It was formerly classified as a subspecies of the L’Hoest’s monkey (A. lhoesti).Pruess’s monkey is currently classified as a member of the genus Allochrocebus. It was formerly considered a member of the genus Cercopithecus.The diet of Preuss’s monkey is primarily fruit, leaves and insects, although the species occasionally raids human crops. It is darkish in coloration with a white chin, and adult males have a blue scrotum. Preuss’s monkeys weigh up to 10 kg. Troops consist of one adult male and several females and adolescents, averaging 17 total per troop. Females give birth to a single offspring about once every three years. The young mature at 4 years and live to be an average of 31 years.Preuss’s monkey is an endangered species, due to habitat loss and hunting. It is one of the species that live in the Guinean Forests of the West Africa Biodiversity Hotspot.Preuss’s monkey is known to occur in captivity only at the Centre for Education, Rehabilitation, and Conservation of Primates and Nature (CERCOPAN) in Cross River State, Nigeria.There are two subspecies of Preuss’s monkey:Cameroon Preuss’s monkey, Cercopithecus preussi preussiBioko Preuss’s monkey, Cercopithecus preussi insularis
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Preuss’s monkey is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Assam macaque weighting around 8.55 kilograms (18.85 lbs)
- Proboscis monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Campbell’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Capped langur weighting around 11.21 kilograms (24.71 lbs)
- Toque macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Allen’s swamp monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Maroon leaf monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lion-tailed macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hamlyn’s monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Preuss’s monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Brazilian brown bat
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur
- Indian hog deer
- Straw-coloured fruit bat
- Rhinolophus simplex
- Blackish deer mouse
- Javan rusa
- Gray bat
- Moose
- Unstriped ground squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Preuss’s monkey
What other animals weight around 5.14 kg (11.32 lbs)?
- Thick-spined porcupine usually reaching 4.59 kgs (10.12 lbs)
- Sunda pangolin usually reaching 4.86 kgs (10.71 lbs)
- Alaskan hare usually reaching 4.85 kgs (10.69 lbs)
- Sechuran fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Kirk’s dik-dik usually reaching 4.8 kgs (10.58 lbs)
- Chinese pangolin usually reaching 4.67 kgs (10.3 lbs)
- Black-spotted cuscus usually reaching 6 kgs (13.23 lbs)
- Arctic hare usually reaching 4.42 kgs (9.74 lbs)
- Pampas fox usually reaching 4.54 kgs (10.01 lbs)
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.55 kgs (10.03 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Preuss’s monkey
Also reaching around 54.5 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Coypu gets as big as 52.1 cm (1′ 9″)
- Owston’s palm civet gets as big as 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Brown’s pademelon gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pale-throated sloth gets as big as 54.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Aquatic genet gets as big as 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Pig-tailed langur gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Otter civet gets as big as 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Arctic hare gets as big as 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Small Indian civet gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black-shanked douc gets as big as 60.9 cm (2′ 0″)