How many baby Ursine colobuss are in a litter?
A Ursine colobus (Colobus vellerosus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4.1 kg (9.04 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Colobus). An adult Ursine colobus grows up to a size of 63.5 cm (2′ 1″).
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 ursine colobus (Colobus vellerosus, white-thighed colobus, Geoffroy’s black-and-white colobus, white-thighed black-and-white colobus) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Ursine colobus is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Gelada with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crab-eating macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- King colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pagai Island macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Agile mangabey weighting around 7.11 kilograms (15.67 lbs)
- Chacma baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Celebes crested macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moor macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mandrill with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Ursine colobus
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo
- Mountain paca
- Small flying fox
- Heart-nosed bat
- Bowhead whale
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
- Northern greater galago
- Zanzibar red colobus
- Preuss’s red colobus
- Sumatran rhinoceros
Animals with the same weight as a Ursine colobus
What other animals weight around 7.7 kg (16.98 lbs)?
- South American gray fox usually reaching 6.34 kgs (13.98 lbs)
- Raccoon usually reaching 6.37 kgs (14.04 lbs)
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 7.98 kgs (17.59 lbs)
- Neotropical otter usually reaching 6.55 kgs (14.44 lbs)
- Western long-beaked echidna usually reaching 8.95 kgs (19.73 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon usually reaching 6.7 kgs (14.77 lbs)
- Hose’s langur usually reaching 6.29 kgs (13.87 lbs)
- Silvery lutung usually reaching 7.15 kgs (15.76 lbs)
- Western brush wallaby usually reaching 8 kgs (17.64 lbs)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey usually reaching 8.27 kgs (18.23 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Ursine colobus
Also reaching around 63.5 cm (2′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Malayan civet gets as big as 65.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Indian pangolin gets as big as 54.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tana River red colobus gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Aardwolf gets as big as 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- North American river otter gets as big as 68.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Bonobo gets as big as 75.3 cm (2′ 6″)
- Venezuelan red howler gets as big as 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Ocelot gets as big as 74.6 cm (2′ 6″)
- Black crested mangabey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Side-striped jackal gets as big as 74.7 cm (2′ 6″)