How many baby Toque macaques are in a litter?
A Toque macaque (Macaca sinica) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 181 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 417 grams (0.92 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Macaca). An adult Toque macaque grows up to a size of 48 cm (1′ 7″).
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 toque macaque (Macaca sinica) is a reddish-brown-coloured Old World monkey endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is known as the rilewa or rilawa (Sinhala: රිළවා), (hence “rillow” in the Oxford English Dictionary).
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Toque macaque is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Zanzibar red colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygathrix bieti weighting around 11 kilograms (24.25 lbs)
- Purple-faced langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- King colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern plains gray langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Stump-tailed macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Toque macaque
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Taruca
- Sambar deer
- Harp seal
- Oecomys concolor
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle
- Peters’s flat-headed bat
- Dusky leaf monkey
- Raffray’s bandicoot
- Davis’s round-eared bat
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
Animals that get as old as a Toque macaque
Other animals that usually reach the age of 35 years:
- Guanaco with 28.25 years
- American bison with 33 years
- Malayan tapir with 30 years
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with 30 years
- Northern bottlenose whale with 37 years
- Gelada with 28 years
- Kinkajou with 29 years
- Red-faced spider monkey with 37.75 years
- Wolf with 29.5 years
- Ryukyu flying fox with 31 years
Animals with the same weight as a Toque macaque
What other animals weight around 4.66 kg (10.27 lbs)?
- Pampas fox usually reaching 4.54 kgs (10.01 lbs)
- Crab-eating macaque usually reaching 4.58 kgs (10.1 lbs)
- Greater mouse-deer usually reaching 5.25 kgs (11.57 lbs)
- Gray fox usually reaching 3.83 kgs (8.44 lbs)
- Sechuran fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Bonnet macaque usually reaching 5 kgs (11.02 lbs)
- Brown howler usually reaching 5.19 kgs (11.44 lbs)
- Desmarest’s hutia usually reaching 5.2 kgs (11.46 lbs)
- Tammar wallaby usually reaching 5.28 kgs (11.64 lbs)
- Brazilian porcupine usually reaching 4.12 kgs (9.08 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Toque macaque
Also reaching around 48 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Alaskan hare gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Royal antelope gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Lion-tailed macaque gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- White-nosed saki gets as big as 44 cm (1′ 6″)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Japanese hare gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Venezuelan red howler gets as big as 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Hoolock gibbon gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black howler gets as big as 55.9 cm (1′ 11″)