How many baby Red-tailed monkeys are in a litter?
A Red-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ascanius) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 148 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 371 grams (0.82 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Cercopithecus). An adult Red-tailed monkey grows up to a size of 44.4 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-tailed monkey, also known as the black-cheeked white-nosed monkey, red-tailed guenon, redtail monkey, or Schmidt’s guenon (Cercopithecus ascanius) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae.It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and possibly Burundi. The red-tailed monkey is usually black, red, or orange. Although native to this region, it has spread north and south as well as it can survive in different habitats and under different conditions. It is a distinct creature in its habitats and is gradually becoming endangered due to deforestation and over-exploitation through hunting and predation.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Red-tailed monkey is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- East Javan langur weighting around 9.72 kilograms (21.43 lbs)
- Guinea baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lion-tailed macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-footed gray langur weighting around 10.03 kilograms (22.11 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pagai Island macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Preuss’s red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- François’ langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red-tailed monkey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Mentawai langur
- Scaly-tailed possum
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Little red brocket
- Eastern hare-wallaby
- White-striped dorcopsis
- Eastern woolly lemur
- Great flying fox
- Chiapan deer mouse
- Roan antelope
Animals that get as old as a Red-tailed monkey
Other animals that usually reach the age of 28.25 years:
- Eastern grey kangaroo with 24 years
- Fallow deer with 25 years
- Père David’s deer with 23.25 years
- Bald uakari with 27 years
- Kinkajou with 29 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with 22.83 years
- Amazonian manatee with 30 years
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey with 27.25 years
- Bonnet macaque with 30 years
- Eastern gray squirrel with 24 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red-tailed monkey
What other animals weight around 3.54 kg (7.8 lbs)?
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur usually reaching 3.86 kgs (8.51 lbs)
- Sclater’s guenon usually reaching 3.07 kgs (6.77 lbs)
- Brown-throated sloth usually reaching 4 kgs (8.82 lbs)
- Short-eared rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.02 kgs (8.86 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 3.5 kgs (7.72 lbs)
- Owston’s palm civet usually reaching 3.27 kgs (7.21 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Long-nosed mongoose usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Marsh mongoose usually reaching 3.6 kgs (7.94 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Red-tailed monkey
Also reaching around 44.4 cm (1′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Yarkand hare gets as big as 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Cape hare gets as big as 42.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- White-bellied spider monkey gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Tiger quoll gets as big as 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Tres Marias rabbit gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat gets as big as 38.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Rio Tapajós saki gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Omilteme cottontail gets as big as 39.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Aquatic genet gets as big as 45.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- Red acouchi gets as big as 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)