How many baby Tibetan macaques are in a litter?
A Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 169 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 500 grams (1.1 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Macaca). An adult Tibetan 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 Tibetan macaque (Macaca thibetana), also known as the Chinese stump-tailed macaque or Milne-Edwards’ macaque, is found from eastern Tibet east to Guangdong and north to Shaanxi in China. It has also been reported from northeastern India. This species lives in subtropical forests (mixed deciduous to evergreen) at altitudes from 800 to 2,500 m (2,600 to 8,200 ft) above sea level.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Tibetan macaque is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Angola colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-eared guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- François’ langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pennant’s colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sclater’s guenon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Collared mangabey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dent’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pennant’s colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Formosan rock macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Tibetan macaque
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Hispid pocket gopher
- Birdlike noctule
- Grandidier’s mongoose
- Black dorcopsis
- Northern elephant seal
- Greater mouse-eared bat
- Delicate mouse
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
- Olive baboon
- Angolan free-tailed bat
Animals with the same weight as a Tibetan macaque
What other animals weight around 10.6 kg (23.36 lbs)?
- Northern plains gray langur usually reaching 12.64 kgs (27.87 lbs)
- Ground pangolin usually reaching 11.92 kgs (26.28 lbs)
- Agile wallaby usually reaching 11.86 kgs (26.15 lbs)
- Aders’s duiker usually reaching 9.25 kgs (20.39 lbs)
- Mountain paca usually reaching 9 kgs (19.84 lbs)
- Black colobus usually reaching 9.1 kgs (20.06 lbs)
- Tenkile usually reaching 9.98 kgs (22 lbs)
- European badger usually reaching 11.89 kgs (26.21 lbs)
- Proboscis monkey usually reaching 12.28 kgs (27.07 lbs)
- Black-headed spider monkey usually reaching 9.07 kgs (20 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Tibetan macaque
Also reaching around 60 cm (2′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Tibetan sand fox gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Brown howler gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Asian small-clawed otter gets as big as 51.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Red-handed howler gets as big as 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 71.8 cm (2′ 5″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Barbary macaque gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Lion-tailed macaque gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Formosan rock macaque gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Bobcat gets as big as 69.1 cm (2′ 4″)