How many baby Southern needle-clawed bushbabys are in a litter?
A Southern needle-clawed bushbaby (Euoticus elegantulus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 133 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 5.3 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Galagonidae family (genus: Euoticus). An adult Southern needle-clawed bushbaby grows up to a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″).
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 southern needle-clawed bushbaby (Euoticus elegantulus) is a species of strepsirrhine primate in the family Galagidae. Found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, and possibly Democratic Republic of the Congo, its natural habitat is tropical moist forests. While the species is not threatened or endangered, some local populations may be threatened by habitat destruction.
Other animals of the family Galagonidae
Southern needle-clawed bushbaby is a member of the Galagonidae, as are these animals:
- Dusky bushbaby weighting only 213 grams
- Zanzibar bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown greater galago with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Somali bushbaby weighting only 250 grams
- Mohol bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern greater galago with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern needle-clawed bushbaby weighting only 278 grams
- Senegal bushbaby with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Brown-throated sloth
- Rio Mayo titi
- Dormer’s bat
- Formosan rock macaque
- Eastern long-fingered bat
- Mexican gray squirrel
- Long-winged tomb bat
- Bulmer’s fruit bat
- Walia ibex
- Granada hare
Animals that get as old as a Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- Giant armadillo with 15 years
- Yellow-backed duiker with 17.25 years
- European rabbit with 18 years
- Red-fronted gazelle with 13.5 years
- European polecat with 14 years
- European hare with 12 years
- Red-fronted gazelle with 13.5 years
- Golden jackal with 16 years
- Wolverine with 18 years
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
What other animals weight around 296 grams (0.65 lbs)?
- O’Connell’s spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby weighting 268 grams
- Rodrigues flying fox weighting 256 grams
- Four-toed hedgehog weighting 311 grams
- Lombok flying fox weighting 256 grams
- Sucre spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Derby’s woolly opossum weighting 328 grams
- Speckled ground squirrel weighting 252 grams
- Round-tailed muskrat weighting 265 grams
- Townsend’s pocket gopher weighting 263 grams
Animals with the same size as a Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
Also reaching around 30 cm (1′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Weyland ringtail possum gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Baja California rock squirrel gets as big as 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Painted ringtail possum gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Plush-coated ringtail possum gets as big as 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black giant squirrel gets as big as 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Cape dune mole-rat gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Western white-eared giant rat gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Bagobo rat gets as big as 28.9 cm (1′ 0″)
- Mexican gray squirrel gets as big as 25.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- White-footed tamarin gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)