How many baby Red slender loriss are in a litter?
A Red slender loris (Loris tardigradus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 166 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 11 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Loridae family (genus: Loris). An adult Red slender loris grows up to a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″).
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 slender loris (Loris tardigradus) is a small, nocturnal strepsirrhine primate native to the rainforests of Sri Lanka. This is #6 of the 10 focal species and #22 of the 100 EDGE mammal species worldwide considered the most evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered. Two subspecies have been identified, L. t. tardigradus and L. t. nycticeboides.
Other animals of the family Loridae
Red slender loris is a member of the Loridae, as are these animals:
- Potto with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden angwantibo weighting only 235 grams
- Calabar angwantibo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy slow loris with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sunda slow loris with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red slender loris
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Charming thicket rat
- De Brazza’s monkey
- Indri
- Monk saki
- Pygmy treeshrew
- Juan Fernández fur seal
- Micronycteris nicefori
- Sumatran serow
- Black lemur
- Arabian tahr
Animals that get as old as a Red slender loris
Other animals that usually reach the age of 16.33 years:
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 14 years
- Leopard cat with 15 years
- Arctocephalus forsteri with 15 years
- Salt’s dik-dik with 14 years
- Cape genet with 15 years
- Geoffroy’s bat with 18 years
- Pygmy marmoset with 15.08 years
- Giant armadillo with 15 years
- Dall sheep with 16 years
- Silvery marmoset with 16.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red slender loris
What other animals weight around 249 grams (0.55 lbs)?
- Colombian weasel weighting 211 grams
- Golden-backed tree-rat weighting 294 grams
- Southern mountain cavy weighting 261 grams
- Goeldi’s spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat weighting 215 grams
- Northern needle-clawed bushbaby weighting 278 grams
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot weighting 220 grams
- Mohave ground squirrel weighting 213 grams
- Philippine forest rat weighting 253 grams
- Pallas’s squirrel weighting 283 grams
Animals with the same size as a Red slender loris
Also reaching around 22.4 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel gets as big as 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gray-backed sportive lemur gets as big as 25.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Plantain squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Oncilla gets as big as 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Unstriped ground squirrel gets as big as 22.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mountain treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Highland tuco-tuco gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)