How many baby Red-eared guenons are in a litter?
A Red-eared guenon (Cercopithecus erythrotis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 468 grams (1.03 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Cercopithecus). An adult Red-eared guenon grows up to a size of 43.5 cm (1′ 6″).
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 red-eared guenon, red-eared monkey, or russet-eared guenon (Cercopithecus erythrotis) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae. It is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and Nigeria. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss, illegal bushmeat hunting and pet trade.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Red-eared guenon is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Campbell’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tana River red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Olive colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Preuss’s red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bonnet macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Formosan rock macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Celebes crested macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-thighed surili weighting around 5.9 kilograms (13.01 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Red-eared guenon
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Malayan porcupine
- Southern elephant seal
- Eld’s deer
- Guam flying fox
- Hoolock gibbon
- Hawaiian monk seal
- Wagner’s bonneted bat
- Tenkile
- Greater nectar bat
- Pallid bat
Animals with the same weight as a Red-eared guenon
What other animals weight around 3.25 kg (7.17 lbs)?
- Quokka usually reaching 3.03 kgs (6.68 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat usually reaching 3.05 kgs (6.72 lbs)
- Leopard cat usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Marsh mongoose usually reaching 3.6 kgs (7.94 lbs)
- Spectacled hare-wallaby usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Black agouti usually reaching 3.5 kgs (7.72 lbs)
- Tufted capuchin usually reaching 2.76 kgs (6.08 lbs)
- Owston’s palm civet usually reaching 3.27 kgs (7.21 lbs)
- Campbell’s mona monkey usually reaching 3.63 kgs (8 lbs)
- Aye-aye usually reaching 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Red-eared guenon
Also reaching around 43.5 cm (1′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Crab-eating macaque gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Marsh rabbit gets as big as 40.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey gets as big as 41 cm (1′ 5″)
- Ground pangolin gets as big as 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Cozumel raccoon gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Red-bellied titi gets as big as 35.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Black crested mangabey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Gambian pouched rat gets as big as 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- David’s echymipera gets as big as 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- African brush-tailed porcupine gets as big as 43.1 cm (1′ 5″)