How many baby Sooty mangabeys are in a litter?
A Sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 165 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 527 grams (1.16 lbs) and measure 11.1 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Cercocebus). An adult Sooty mangabey grows up to a size of 21.1 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 sooty mangabey (Cercocebus atys) is an Old World monkey found in forests from Senegal in a margin along the coast down to Ghana. While overall rated as Near Threatened, the eastern race lunulatus, also known as the white-crowned, white-naped, or white-collared mangabey (leading to confusion with the collared mangabey), is considered Endangered by the IUCN. The White-collared mangabey was declared its own species by the IUCN in 2016, but it retains the endangered conservation status.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Sooty mangabey is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Angola colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- East Javan langur weighting around 9.72 kilograms (21.43 lbs)
- Crab-eating macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygathrix bieti weighting around 11 kilograms (24.25 lbs)
- White-thighed surili weighting around 5.9 kilograms (13.01 lbs)
- Tana River red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wolf’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Patas monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Sooty mangabey
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Brown-throated sloth
- Weddell seal
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat
- Southern elephant seal
- Woodlark cuscus
- Red-eared guenon
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
- Klipspringer
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby
Animals that get as old as a Sooty mangabey
Other animals that usually reach the age of 26.75 years:
- Moustached guenon with 23 years
- Subantarctic fur seal with 23 years
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with 24.5 years
- California sea lion with 30 years
- Purple-faced langur with 23 years
- Lion with 30 years
- Potto with 26 years
- Siberian ibex with 22.25 years
- Tiger with 26.25 years
- Bharal with 24 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sooty mangabey
What other animals weight around 6.94 kg (15.3 lbs)?
- American badger usually reaching 7.84 kgs (17.28 lbs)
- Black howler usually reaching 5.58 kgs (12.3 lbs)
- Andean mountain cat usually reaching 8.13 kgs (17.92 lbs)
- Koala usually reaching 6.55 kgs (14.44 lbs)
- Raccoon usually reaching 6.37 kgs (14.04 lbs)
- Agile mangabey usually reaching 7.11 kgs (15.67 lbs)
- Northern nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 6.5 kgs (14.33 lbs)
- White-bellied spider monkey usually reaching 6.71 kgs (14.79 lbs)
- Patagonian mara usually reaching 8.03 kgs (17.7 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur usually reaching 7.39 kgs (16.29 lbs)