How many baby Southern pig-tailed macaques are in a litter?
A Southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 171 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 473 grams (1.04 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Macaca). An adult Southern pig-tailed macaque grows up to a size of 51.3 cm (1′ 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 southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina), also known as the Sundaland pig-tailed macaque and Sunda pig-tailed macaque, is a medium-sized macaque that lives in southern Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia. It is known locally as the beruk.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Southern pig-tailed macaque is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black snub-nosed monkey weighting around 11 kilograms (24.25 lbs)
- L’Hoest’s monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Assam macaque weighting around 8.55 kilograms (18.85 lbs)
- Sykes’ monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Capped langur weighting around 11.21 kilograms (24.71 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hamadryas baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Maroon leaf monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Southern pig-tailed macaque
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Philippine flying lemur
- Moustached guenon
- Bates’s pygmy antelope
- Red-tailed monkey
- Natal red rock hare
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat
- Hooded seal
- Silver-haired bat
- Black-winged little yellow bat
- Bulmer’s fruit bat
Animals that get as old as a Southern pig-tailed macaque
Other animals that usually reach the age of 34.25 years:
- Bobcat with 32.33 years
- Wolf with 29.5 years
- American black bear with 32 years
- Common brown lemur with 37 years
- South Asian river dolphin with 28 years
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth with 32.08 years
- Pagai Island macaque with 30 years
- Siamang with 38 years
- Grivet with 31.58 years
- Daubenton’s bat with 28 years
Animals with the same weight as a Southern pig-tailed macaque
What other animals weight around 7.85 kg (17.3 lbs)?
- Malayan porcupine usually reaching 8 kgs (17.64 lbs)
- Asian golden cat usually reaching 7.73 kgs (17.04 lbs)
- Culpeo usually reaching 8.62 kgs (19 lbs)
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby usually reaching 8.5 kgs (18.74 lbs)
- White-bellied spider monkey usually reaching 6.71 kgs (14.79 lbs)
- Dusky leaf monkey usually reaching 7.18 kgs (15.83 lbs)
- Southern river otter usually reaching 7.5 kgs (16.53 lbs)
- Stump-tailed macaque usually reaching 9.38 kgs (20.68 lbs)
- Mountain paca usually reaching 9 kgs (19.84 lbs)
- Sooty mangabey usually reaching 6.94 kgs (15.3 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Southern pig-tailed macaque
Also reaching around 51.3 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Natal red rock hare gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Preuss’s red colobus gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Thick-spined porcupine gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- South American coati gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Alpine woolly rat gets as big as 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Pale-throated sloth gets as big as 54.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby gets as big as 52.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- White-striped dorcopsis gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Marbled cat gets as big as 51.7 cm (1′ 9″)
- Sunda pangolin gets as big as 59 cm (2′ 0″)