How many baby Asian small-clawed otters are in a litter?
A Asian small-clawed otter (Amblonyx cinereus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 64 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 57 grams (0.13 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Amblonyx). An adult Asian small-clawed otter grows up to a size of 51.9 cm (1′ 9″).
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 Asian small-clawed otter (Amblonyx cinereus), also known as the oriental small-clawed otter or simply small-clawed otter, is a semiaquatic mammal native to South and Southeast Asia. It is a member of the otter subfamily (Lutrinae) of the weasel family (Mustelidae), and is the smallest otter species in the world. Its paws are a distinctive feature; its claws do not extend beyond the fleshy end pads of its partially webbed fingers and toes. This gives it a high degree of manual dexterity so that it can use its paws to feed on molluscs, crabs and other small aquatic animals.The Asian small-clawed otter inhabits mangrove swamps and freshwater wetlands in South and Southeast Asia. It lives in extended family groups with only the alpha pair breeding; offspring from previous years help to raise the young. Due to ongoing habitat loss, pollution, and hunting in some areas, it is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
Asian small-clawed otter is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- Siberian weasel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed weasel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Burmese ferret-badger with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sable with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Spotted-necked otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-throated marten with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Saharan striped polecat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain weasel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Giant otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Asian small-clawed otter
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Red-bellied titi
- Northern brushtail possum
- Iberian ibex
- Ring-tailed vontsira
- Siamang
- Homo sapiens
- Blue monkey
- Javan surili
- Hirola
- Peters’s flat-headed bat
Animals that get as old as a Asian small-clawed otter
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10.08 years:
- Banded mongoose with 12 years
- Muskrat with 10 years
- Speke’s pectinator with 10 years
- Taruca with 10.58 years
- Bush dog with 10.33 years
- Saiga antelope with 12 years
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 12 years
- Bushveld elephant shrew with 8.75 years
- Barbary ground squirrel with 9 years
- Northern treeshrew with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Asian small-clawed otter
What other animals weight around 3.53 kg (7.78 lbs)?
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey usually reaching 3.24 kgs (7.14 lbs)
- Brown-throated sloth usually reaching 4 kgs (8.82 lbs)
- Tiger quoll usually reaching 3.32 kgs (7.32 lbs)
- Rüppell’s fox usually reaching 3.25 kgs (7.17 lbs)
- Brazilian porcupine usually reaching 4.12 kgs (9.08 lbs)
- Colombian white-faced capuchin usually reaching 3.01 kgs (6.64 lbs)
- Red-eared guenon usually reaching 3.25 kgs (7.17 lbs)
- Short-eared possum usually reaching 3.13 kgs (6.9 lbs)
- Quokka usually reaching 3.03 kgs (6.68 lbs)
- Grivet usually reaching 3.86 kgs (8.51 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Asian small-clawed otter
Also reaching around 51.9 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- American hog-nosed skunk gets as big as 42.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Sechuran fox gets as big as 56.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Ground pangolin gets as big as 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Tana River mangabey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Hose’s palm civet gets as big as 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey gets as big as 43.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Hoolock gibbon gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tenkile gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Mona monkey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Kinkajou gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)