How many baby Weasel sportive lemurs are in a litter?
A Weasel sportive lemur (Lepilemur mustelinus) 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 133 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 27 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 10.7 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Megaladapidae family (genus: Lepilemur). An adult Weasel sportive lemur grows up to a size of 25.5 cm (0′ 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 weasel sportive lemur (Lepilemur mustelinus), also known as the greater sportive lemur, weasel lemur, or greater weasel lemur, is a species of lemur native to northeastern Madagascar. Its habitat includes rainforests and tropical rainforests. Its dorsal side is a reddish-brown colour, and greyish brown ventrally. Its colour darkens towards the tip of its tail. Individuals weigh from 0.8 to 1.2 kg (1.8 to 2.6 lb) It has long, soft fur. Its body length is approximately 22–30 cm (8.7–11.8 in) and a tail length of 23–27 cm (9.1–10.6 in).The weasel sportive lemur is predominantly a leaf-eater, although it supplements its diet with fruits and flowers. It is an arboreal species, and travels through the trees by leaping. As with other leaping primates, it has stereoscopic vision that enables it to determine distances precisely. Groups consist solely of a mother and its offspring; the males are solitary, and are very territorial. Each weasel sportive lemur occupies a territory of 1/2 to 1¼ acres (1500 to 5000 m²). Like some other lemurs, they are nocturnal.
Other animals of the family Megaladapidae
Weasel sportive lemur is a member of the Megaladapidae, as are these animals:
- Red-tailed sportive lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Small-toothed sportive lemur weighting only 955 grams
- Gray-backed sportive lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-footed sportive lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern sportive lemur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Milne-Edwards’ sportive lemur weighting only 822 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Weasel sportive lemur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Dromedary
- Little red flying fox
- Southeast Asian shrew
- Walrus
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Bactrian camel
- Campbell’s mona monkey
- Western rock elephant shrew
- Flores woolly bat
- Baiji
Animals that get as old as a Weasel sportive lemur
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Naked mole-rat with 10 years
- Southern tree hyrax with 10 years
- Rock cavy with 11 years
- Common bent-wing bat with 14 years
- Horsfield’s tarsier with 12 years
- Black-footed cat with 12 years
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with 12 years
- Javan mongoose with 10 years
- Crab-eating mongoose with 13.33 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Weasel sportive lemur
What other animals weight around 670 grams (1.48 lbs)?
- Dark spiny tree-rat weighting 627 grams
- California ground squirrel weighting 598 grams
- Big-headed African mole-rat weighting 622 grams
- White-faced spiny tree-rat weighting 610 grams
- Northern sportive lemur weighting 760 grams
- Namaqua slender mongoose weighting 750 grams
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum weighting 765 grams
- Bolivian bamboo rat weighting 729 grams
- Central American squirrel monkey weighting 714 grams
- Golden lion tamarin weighting 593 grams