How many baby Rhesus macaques are in a litter?
A Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 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 472 grams (1.04 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Macaca). An adult Rhesus macaque grows up to a size of 55.5 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 rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) is a species of Old World monkey. It is listed as least concern in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and its tolerance of a broad range of habitats. It is native to South, Central, and Southeast Asia and has the widest geographic range of all non-human primates, occupying a great diversity of altitudes and a great variety of habitats, from grasslands to arid and forested areas, but also close to human settlements.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Rhesus macaque is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Tana River red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pagai Island macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- De Brazza’s monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Collared mangabey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hose’s langur weighting around 6.29 kilograms (13.87 lbs)
- Red-tailed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chacma baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pennant’s colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Olive colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Rhesus macaque
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Peale’s free-tailed bat
- Bawean deer
- Narwhal
- Beira (antelope)
- Fox’s shrew
- Rufous rat-kangaroo
- Long-footed water rat
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat
- Black bearded saki
- Oncilla
Animals that get as old as a Rhesus macaque
Other animals that usually reach the age of 36 years:
- Javan rhinoceros with 40 years
- Ribbon seal with 31 years
- Polar bear with 38.17 years
- Gray bat with 39.25 years
- Ring-tailed lemur with 30 years
- Asian black bear with 35.17 years
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with 32 years
- Bonnet macaque with 30 years
- Western long-beaked echidna with 31 years
- Wedge-capped capuchin with 41 years
Animals with the same weight as a Rhesus macaque
What other animals weight around 6.45 kg (14.23 lbs)?
- White-cheeked spider monkey usually reaching 6.24 kgs (13.76 lbs)
- Diademed sifaka usually reaching 6.58 kgs (14.51 lbs)
- Formosan rock macaque usually reaching 5.75 kgs (12.68 lbs)
- Asian golden cat usually reaching 7.73 kgs (17.04 lbs)
- Peruvian spider monkey usually reaching 7.09 kgs (15.63 lbs)
- Hose’s langur usually reaching 6.29 kgs (13.87 lbs)
- Black dorcopsis usually reaching 6.2 kgs (13.67 lbs)
- Black crested gibbon usually reaching 6.43 kgs (14.18 lbs)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby usually reaching 5.6 kgs (12.35 lbs)
- Ursine colobus usually reaching 7.7 kgs (16.98 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Rhesus macaque
Also reaching around 55.5 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- De Brazza’s monkey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Bat-eared fox gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- South American coati gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Red-legged pademelon gets as big as 56.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Allen’s swamp monkey gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Raffles’ banded langur gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tayra gets as big as 61.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Hoolock gibbon gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Golden-crowned sifaka gets as big as 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)