How many baby Stump-tailed macaques are in a litter?
A Stump-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 176 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 489 grams (1.08 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Macaca). An adult Stump-tailed macaque grows up to a size of 60 cm (2′ 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 stump-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides), also called the bear macaque, is a species of macaque found in South Asia. In India, it is found in south of the Brahmaputra River, in the northeastern part of the country. Its range in India extends from Assam and Meghalaya to eastern Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura.It is primarily frugivorous, but eats many types of vegetation, such as seeds, leaves and roots, but also hunts freshwater crabs, frogs, bird eggs and insects.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Stump-tailed macaque is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Olive baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Booted macaque weighting around 2.75 kilograms (6.06 lbs)
- Angola colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pennant’s colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- L’Hoest’s monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Celebes crested macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tana River red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Raffles’ banded langur weighting around 7.02 kilograms (15.48 lbs)
- Dent’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pagai Island macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Stump-tailed macaque
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Soemmerring’s gazelle
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat
- Greater long-nosed bat
- Big free-tailed bat
- Red fruit bat
- Dorcas gazelle
- Bunyoro rabbit
- Boehm’s bush squirrel
- Ring-tailed vontsira
Animals that get as old as a Stump-tailed macaque
Other animals that usually reach the age of 30 years:
- Guadalupe fur seal with 24 years
- Hawaiian monk seal with 30 years
- Crested servaline genet with 34 years
- Silvery lutung with 31.08 years
- Banteng with 26.5 years
- Striped hyena with 24 years
- Giant anteater with 26 years
- Vicuña with 24.75 years
- Grivet with 31.58 years
- Aardwolf with 25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Stump-tailed macaque
What other animals weight around 9.38 kg (20.68 lbs)?
- Pygathrix bieti usually reaching 11 kgs (24.25 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 9.09 kgs (20.04 lbs)
- Western brush wallaby usually reaching 8 kgs (17.64 lbs)
- Southern muriqui usually reaching 10.57 kgs (23.3 lbs)
- Dingiso usually reaching 9.4 kgs (20.72 lbs)
- Sulawesi bear cuscus usually reaching 10 kgs (22.05 lbs)
- Sarcophilus laniarius usually reaching 8.35 kgs (18.41 lbs)
- Lowland paca usually reaching 8.17 kgs (18.01 lbs)
- Short-eared dog usually reaching 8.36 kgs (18.43 lbs)
- Capped langur usually reaching 11.21 kgs (24.71 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Stump-tailed macaque
Also reaching around 60 cm (2′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Drill (animal) gets as big as 70 cm (2′ 4″)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Pennant’s colobus gets as big as 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Pig-tailed langur gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Hoolock gibbon gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Moustached guenon gets as big as 52 cm (1′ 9″)
- Dusky leaf monkey gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Raffles’ banded langur gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tres Marias raccoon gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)