How many baby Verreaux’s sifakas are in a litter?
A Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 148 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 102 grams (0.22 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Indridae family (genus: Propithecus). An adult Verreaux’s sifaka grows up to a size of 47.2 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.
Verreaux’s sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi), or the white sifaka, is a medium-sized primate in one of the lemur families, the Indriidae. It lives in Madagascar and can be found in a variety of habitats from rainforest to western Madagascar dry deciduous forests and dry and spiny forests. Its fur is thick and silky and generally white with brown on the sides, top of the head, and on the arms. Like all sifakas, it has a long tail that it uses as a balance when leaping from tree to tree. However, its body is so highly adapted to an arboreal existence, on the ground its only means of locomotion is hopping. The species lives in small troops which forage for food.Many things are unknown about Verreaux’s sifaka, so their lifespan in the wild has not been approximated, but in captivity, they generally live to up to 18 years old.
Other animals of the family Indridae
Verreaux’s sifaka is a member of the Indridae, as are these animals:
- Eastern woolly lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indri with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Diademed sifaka with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden-crowned sifaka weighting around 3.53 kilograms (7.78 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Verreaux’s sifaka
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Temminck’s flying squirrel
- Long-footed potoroo
- Black giant squirrel
- Common eland
- Herbert River ringtail possum
- Japanese serow
- Hirola
- Bushy-tailed mongoose
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat
- Bahamian hutia
Animals that get as old as a Verreaux’s sifaka
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20.58 years:
- Brown hyena with 17 years
- Mediterranean monk seal with 23.67 years
- Common eland with 24.33 years
- Guatemalan black howler with 20 years
- Short-eared possum with 17 years
- Black-fronted duiker with 19.67 years
- Roe deer with 17 years
- Red goral with 18.25 years
- Barbary macaque with 22 years
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with 21 years
Animals with the same weight as a Verreaux’s sifaka
What other animals weight around 3.61 kg (7.96 lbs)?
- Fisher (animal) usually reaching 3.75 kgs (8.27 lbs)
- Mona monkey usually reaching 3.98 kgs (8.77 lbs)
- Alpine marmot usually reaching 4.06 kgs (8.95 lbs)
- Black bearded saki usually reaching 2.97 kgs (6.55 lbs)
- Bay cat usually reaching 3.43 kgs (7.56 lbs)
- Raccoon dog usually reaching 4.22 kgs (9.3 lbs)
- Common spotted cuscus usually reaching 4.06 kgs (8.95 lbs)
- White-tailed mongoose usually reaching 3.66 kgs (8.07 lbs)
- Small Indian civet usually reaching 2.95 kgs (6.5 lbs)
- Salt’s dik-dik usually reaching 3.4 kgs (7.5 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Verreaux’s sifaka
Also reaching around 47.2 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Banded linsang gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Yellow-throated marten gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Preuss’s monkey gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Brazilian porcupine gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Red-tailed monkey gets as big as 44.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Platypus gets as big as 41.9 cm (1′ 5″)
- Amami rabbit gets as big as 44.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Japanese marten gets as big as 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Black-crested Sumatran langur gets as big as 50.4 cm (1′ 8″)