How many baby Tufted capuchins are in a litter?
A Tufted capuchin (Cebus apella) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 154 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 232 grams (0.51 lbs) and measure 20 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Cebidae family (genus: Cebus). An adult Tufted capuchin grows up to a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″).
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 tufted capuchin (Sapajus apella), also known as brown capuchin, black-capped capuchin, or pin monkey is a New World primate from South America. As traditionally defined, it is one of the most widespread primates in the Neotropics, but it has recently been recommended considering the black-striped, black and golden-bellied capuchins as separate species in a new genus, thereby effectively limiting the tufted capuchin to the Amazon basin and nearby regions.The tufted capuchin is an omnivorous animal, mostly feeding on fruits and invertebrates, although it sometimes feeds on small vertebrates (e.g. lizards and bird chicks) and other plant parts. It can be found in many different kinds of environment, including moist tropical and subtropical forest, dry forest, and disturbed or secondary forest.Like other capuchins, it is a social animal, forming groups of 8 to 15 individuals that are led by an alpha or dominant male.
Other animals of the family Cebidae
Tufted capuchin is a member of the Cebidae, as are these animals:
- Hershkovitz’s marmoset with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Brown howler weighting around 5.19 kilograms (11.44 lbs)
- Guatemalan black howler with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black capuchin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-nosed saki with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black howler with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black squirrel monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mantled howler with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Three-striped night monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Tufted capuchin
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Tana River mangabey
- Soemmerring’s gazelle
- Bush vlei rat
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel
- Western red colobus
- Philippine tarsier
- Mexican long-tongued bat
- Goldman’s woodrat
- Leadbeater’s possum
- Sulawesi rousette
Animals that get as old as a Tufted capuchin
Other animals that usually reach the age of 45.08 years:
- Grey seal with 46.67 years
- Harp seal with 42 years
- Lion-tailed macaque with 40 years
- Guinea baboon with 40 years
- Long-finned pilot whale with 45 years
- Red-faced spider monkey with 37.75 years
- Narwhal with 40 years
- Agile gibbon with 44 years
- Burchell’s zebra with 40 years
- Mandrill with 46.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Tufted capuchin
What other animals weight around 2.76 kg (6.08 lbs)?
- Cat usually reaching 2.88 kgs (6.35 lbs)
- Wolffsohn’s viscacha usually reaching 2.68 kgs (5.91 lbs)
- Golden-backed uakari usually reaching 3.13 kgs (6.9 lbs)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Large bamboo rat usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Northern common cuscus usually reaching 2.33 kgs (5.14 lbs)
- Leopard cat usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Granada hare usually reaching 2.33 kgs (5.14 lbs)
- Black lemur usually reaching 2.48 kgs (5.47 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Tufted capuchin
Also reaching around 42.8 cm (1′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Southern tree hyrax gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Southern pig-tailed macaque gets as big as 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Olive colobus gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Chinese ferret-badger gets as big as 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- L’Hoest’s monkey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- European wildcat gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Platypus gets as big as 41.9 cm (1′ 5″)
- Japanese hare gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Tana River mangabey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Mountain cuscus gets as big as 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)