How many baby Western red colobuss are in a litter?
A Western red colobus (Piliocolobus badius) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 151 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 19 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Piliocolobus). An adult Western red colobus grows up to a size of 57.4 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 western red colobus (Piliocolobus badius), also known as the bay red colobus, rust red colobus or Upper Guinea red colobus, is a species of Old World monkey in West African forests from Senegal to Ghana. All other species of red colobuses have formerly been considered subspecies of P. badius. It is often hunted by the common chimpanzee. In 1994, western red colobus monkeys infected many chimpanzees with Ebola virus when they were hunted and eaten by the chimpanzees.
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
Western red colobus is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Ursine colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-footed gray langur weighting around 10.03 kilograms (22.11 lbs)
- Capped langur weighting around 11.21 kilograms (24.71 lbs)
- Sykes’ monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tana River mangabey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow baboon with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Toque macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Olive colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rhesus macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grivet with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Western red colobus
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- South Andean deer
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby
- Broom hare
- Aberdare mole shrew
- Common thick-thumbed bat
- Phayre’s leaf monkey
- Collared peccary
- Niceforo’s big-eared bat
- Zanzibar red colobus
- Hoffmanns’s titi
Animals with the same weight as a Western red colobus
What other animals weight around 8.43 kg (18.58 lbs)?
- Jaguarundi usually reaching 6.88 kgs (15.17 lbs)
- American badger usually reaching 7.84 kgs (17.28 lbs)
- Assam macaque usually reaching 8.55 kgs (18.85 lbs)
- Crab-eating raccoon usually reaching 6.94 kgs (15.3 lbs)
- Tonkean macaque usually reaching 10.07 kgs (22.2 lbs)
- Black-headed spider monkey usually reaching 9.07 kgs (20 lbs)
- Tana River red colobus usually reaching 8.03 kgs (17.7 lbs)
- Western long-beaked echidna usually reaching 8.95 kgs (19.73 lbs)
- Hog badger usually reaching 8.17 kgs (18.01 lbs)
- Guatemalan black howler usually reaching 7.19 kgs (15.85 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Western red colobus
Also reaching around 57.4 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Preuss’s red colobus gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tenkile gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo gets as big as 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- King colobus gets as big as 62.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Tana River mangabey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Stripe-necked mongoose gets as big as 47.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Southern river otter gets as big as 59 cm (2′ 0″)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo gets as big as 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- White-striped dorcopsis gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Preuss’s monkey gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)