How many baby White-throated guenons are in a litter?
A White-throated guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 468 grams (1.03 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cercopithecidae family (genus: Cercopithecus). An adult White-throated guenon grows up to a size of 45.7 cm (1′ 6″).
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 white-throated guenon (Cercopithecus erythrogaster), also known as the red-bellied monkey and the red-bellied guenon, is a diurnal primate that lives on trees of rainforests or tropical areas of Nigeria and Benin.The white-throated guenon is usually a frugivore but insects, leaves, and crops are also in its diet. It usually lives in small groups of four to five individual monkeys however, there have been groups of 30 discovered, and in cases, some males wander alone. It is arboreal, living in moist tropical forest and the wettest parts of dry tropical forest, however it can also be found in secondary bush and old farmland.Males weigh from 3.5–4.5 kg and females weigh 2–4 kg. Females give birth to one offspring, which is a factor of decreasing population.The white-throated guenon was once considered extinct due to constant hunting for the fur of its unique red belly and white front legs. Yet, a small group was found near the Niger River in 1988.The white-throated guenon is still considered a vulnerable species due to its decreasing population. It is present within Nigerian forest reserves and sacred groves in Benin but hunting and logging restrictions are difficult to enforce or nonexistent . It is one of the species that live in the Guinean Forests of the West Africa Biodiversity Hotspot.There are two subspecies of white-throated guenon:Red-bellied guenon, Cercopithecus erythrogaster erythrogasterNigerian white-throated guenon, Cercopithecus erythrogaster pococki
Other animals of the family Cercopithecidae
White-throated guenon is a member of the Cercopithecidae, as are these animals:
- Allen’s swamp monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Patas monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern plains gray langur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gelada with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden snub-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hose’s langur weighting around 6.29 kilograms (13.87 lbs)
- Lion-tailed macaque with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Olive colobus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wolf’s mona monkey with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with White-throated guenon
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Brown-throated sloth
- Northern brushtail possum
- Speke’s pectinator
- Hoffmann’s rat
- Hippopotamus
- Zebra duiker
- Burchell’s zebra
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat
- Bunyoro rabbit
- Rock cavy
Animals with the same weight as a White-throated guenon
What other animals weight around 3.44 kg (7.59 lbs)?
- Greater cane rat usually reaching 3.75 kgs (8.27 lbs)
- Eastern falanouc usually reaching 2.78 kgs (6.13 lbs)
- Arctic fox usually reaching 3.58 kgs (7.89 lbs)
- Spectacled hare-wallaby usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Cape fox usually reaching 2.92 kgs (6.44 lbs)
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain usually reaching 3.11 kgs (6.86 lbs)
- European hare usually reaching 3.82 kgs (8.42 lbs)
- Tufted capuchin usually reaching 2.76 kgs (6.08 lbs)
- Black-rumped agouti usually reaching 2.9 kgs (6.39 lbs)
- Red ruffed lemur usually reaching 3.87 kgs (8.53 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-throated guenon
Also reaching around 45.7 cm (1′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Brown woolly monkey gets as big as 53.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Scrub hare gets as big as 49.5 cm (1′ 8″)
- Japanese marten gets as big as 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Ground pangolin gets as big as 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Wolf’s mona monkey gets as big as 48 cm (1′ 7″)
- Pig-tailed langur gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Long-tailed porcupine gets as big as 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Malayan porcupine gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Black lemur gets as big as 39.7 cm (1′ 4″)
- South American coati gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)