How many baby Red-faced spider monkeys are in a litter?
A Red-faced spider monkey (Ateles paniscus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 228 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 479 grams (1.06 lbs) and measure 5.8 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Cebidae family (genus: Ateles). An adult Red-faced spider monkey grows up to a size of 57.6 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.
The red-faced spider monkey (Ateles paniscus) also known as the Guiana spider monkey or red-faced black spider monkey, is a species of spider monkey found in the rain forests in northern South America.The species faces issues with hunting and habitat loss, so is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Redlist.
Other animals of the family Cebidae
Red-faced spider monkey is a member of the Cebidae, as are these animals:
- Tufted capuchin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-eared titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kaapori capuchin weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Ollala brothers’s titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Aotus infulatus weighting only 800 grams
- Red-bellied titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown howler weighting around 5.19 kilograms (11.44 lbs)
- White-footed saki weighting around 2.8 kilograms (6.17 lbs)
- Hershkovitz’s marmoset with 2 babies per pregnancy
- White-cheeked spider monkey weighting around 6.24 kilograms (13.76 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Red-faced spider monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Goitered gazelle
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Black-crested Sumatran langur
- Gray dorcopsis
- Dryas monkey
- Formosan rock macaque
- Homo sapiens
- Leschenault’s rousette
- Moose
- Bush vlei rat
Animals that get as old as a Red-faced spider monkey
Other animals that usually reach the age of 37.75 years:
- Guinea baboon with 40 years
- Wedge-capped capuchin with 41 years
- South American tapir with 35 years
- Bowhead whale with 40 years
- Common brown lemur with 37 years
- Gray bat with 39.25 years
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with 32.67 years
- Toque macaque with 35 years
- Beluga whale with 40 years
- King colobus with 30.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red-faced spider monkey
What other animals weight around 8.7 kg (19.19 lbs)?
- Black-headed spider monkey usually reaching 9.07 kgs (20 lbs)
- Aders’s duiker usually reaching 9.25 kgs (20.39 lbs)
- Smooth-coated otter usually reaching 8.96 kgs (19.75 lbs)
- Honey badger usually reaching 9 kgs (19.84 lbs)
- Canada lynx usually reaching 9.73 kgs (21.45 lbs)
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby usually reaching 8.5 kgs (18.74 lbs)
- Eurasian otter usually reaching 8.86 kgs (19.53 lbs)
- Black-footed gray langur usually reaching 10.03 kgs (22.11 lbs)
- Assam macaque usually reaching 8.55 kgs (18.85 lbs)
- Short-eared dog usually reaching 8.36 kgs (18.43 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Red-faced spider monkey
Also reaching around 57.6 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- White-striped dorcopsis gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Red fox gets as big as 62.9 cm (2′ 1″)
- Neotropical otter gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Bald uakari gets as big as 54.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- White-fronted surili gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Golden-crowned sifaka gets as big as 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Southern muriqui gets as big as 57.8 cm (1′ 11″)
- Nilgiri langur gets as big as 55.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black-footed mongoose gets as big as 61.3 cm (2′ 1″)