How many baby Venezuelan red howlers are in a litter?
A Venezuelan red howler (Alouatta seniculus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 189 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 294 grams (0.65 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cebidae family (genus: Alouatta). An adult Venezuelan red howler grows up to a size of 56.1 cm (1′ 11″).
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 Venezuelan red howler (Alouatta seniculus) is a South American species of howler monkey, a type of New World monkey, found in the western Amazon Basin in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. The population in the Santa Cruz Department in Bolivia was split off as a separate species, the Bolivian red howler, in 1986, and more recently, splitting off the population in northeastern South America and Trinidad as the Guyanan red howler has occurred. All howler monkeys belong to the family Atelidae and the infraorder Platyrrhini (New World monkeys).
Other animals of the family Cebidae
Venezuelan red howler is a member of the Cebidae, as are these animals:
- Spix’s night monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kaapori capuchin weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Aotus infulatus weighting only 800 grams
- Monk saki with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Atlantic titi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-capped squirrel monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-bellied spider monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern muriqui with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-cheeked spider monkey weighting around 6.24 kilograms (13.76 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Venezuelan red howler
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Baikal seal
- Livingstone’s fruit bat
- Eared hutia
- Silky anteater
- Rothschild’s woolly rat
- Blue whale
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat
- Bornean orangutan
- Purple-faced langur
- Homo sapiens
Animals that get as old as a Venezuelan red howler
Other animals that usually reach the age of 25 years:
- Raccoon with 20.83 years
- Brown long-eared bat with 30 years
- Tamaraw with 28 years
- Blainville’s beaked whale with 27 years
- Greater horseshoe bat with 30 years
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with 23.83 years
- Ross seal with 21 years
- Malayan tapir with 30 years
- Patas monkey with 23.83 years
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey with 27.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Venezuelan red howler
What other animals weight around 6.41 kg (14.13 lbs)?
- Thomas’s langur usually reaching 6.69 kgs (14.75 lbs)
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 6.65 kgs (14.66 lbs)
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth usually reaching 6.61 kgs (14.57 lbs)
- Northern nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 6.5 kgs (14.33 lbs)
- Southern river otter usually reaching 7.5 kgs (16.53 lbs)
- Sooty mangabey usually reaching 6.94 kgs (15.3 lbs)
- Collared mangabey usually reaching 7.29 kgs (16.07 lbs)
- Mentawai langur usually reaching 6.45 kgs (14.22 lbs)
- Silvery lutung usually reaching 7.15 kgs (15.76 lbs)
- Tana River mangabey usually reaching 7.08 kgs (15.61 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Venezuelan red howler
Also reaching around 56.1 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Malayan civet gets as big as 65.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Arabian gazelle gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Dusky pademelon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Wolf’s mona monkey gets as big as 48 cm (1′ 7″)
- Hoolock gibbon gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Malagasy civet gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Bengal fox gets as big as 52.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Proboscis monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Sunda pangolin gets as big as 59 cm (2′ 0″)