How many baby Hog badgers are in a litter?
A Hog badger (Arctonyx collaris) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 42 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 58 grams (0.13 lbs) and measure 21.5 cm (0′ 9″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Arctonyx). An adult Hog badger grows up to a size of 69.2 cm (2′ 4″).
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 hog badger (Arctonyx collaris), also known as the greater hog badger, is a terrestrial mustelid native to Central and Southeast Asia. It is listed as Vulnerable in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species because the global population is thought to be declining due to high levels of poaching.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
Hog badger is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Honey badger with 2 babies per pregnancy
- European pine marten with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Marine otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Asian small-clawed otter with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Steppe polecat with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean ferret-badger with 2 babies per pregnancy
- American hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern spotted skunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Greater grison with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hog badger
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Creeping vole
- Black-tailed dasyure
- Common punaré
- Great jerboa
- Alpine pine vole
- Heath mouse
- South American coati
- Common dwarf mongoose
- Collared pika
- Kivu long-haired shrew
Animals that get as old as a Hog badger
Other animals that usually reach the age of 13.92 years:
- Yellow mongoose with 15.17 years
- Indian pangolin with 13.5 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- Common brushtail possum with 14.67 years
- Dall sheep with 16 years
- Mohol bushbaby with 16.5 years
- Dhole with 16 years
- Speke’s gazelle with 12.67 years
- Eastern bettong with 11.75 years
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Hog badger
What other animals weight around 8.17 kg (18.01 lbs)?
- White-bellied spider monkey usually reaching 6.71 kgs (14.79 lbs)
- Javan surili usually reaching 6.57 kgs (14.48 lbs)
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby usually reaching 8.5 kgs (18.74 lbs)
- Ursine colobus usually reaching 7.7 kgs (16.98 lbs)
- Eurasian otter usually reaching 8.86 kgs (19.53 lbs)
- Western long-beaked echidna usually reaching 8.95 kgs (19.73 lbs)
- Honey badger usually reaching 9 kgs (19.84 lbs)
- Andean mountain cat usually reaching 8.13 kgs (17.92 lbs)
- Malayan porcupine usually reaching 8 kgs (17.64 lbs)
- Sarcophilus laniarius usually reaching 8.35 kgs (18.41 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Hog badger
Also reaching around 69.2 cm (2′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Hamadryas baboon gets as big as 67.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Dingiso gets as big as 67.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Aders’s duiker gets as big as 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Aardwolf gets as big as 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Black-backed jackal gets as big as 70.9 cm (2′ 4″)
- Sharpe’s grysbok gets as big as 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Spotted-necked otter gets as big as 59.7 cm (2′ 0″)
- Capped langur gets as big as 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Preuss’s red colobus gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Red forest duiker gets as big as 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)