How many baby Chacoan peccarys are in a litter?
A Chacoan peccary (Catagonus wagneri) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 152 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 600 grams (1.32 lbs) and measure 1.7 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Tayassuidae family (genus: Catagonus). An adult Chacoan peccary grows up to a size of 1.03 meter (3′ 5″).
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 Chacoan peccary or tagua (Catagonus wagneri) is the last extant species of the genus Catagonus; it is a peccary found in the Gran Chaco of Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina. Approximately 3,000 remain in the world. It is believed to be the closest living relative to the extinct genus Platygonus.The Chacoan peccary has the unusual distinction of having been first described in 1930 based on fossils and was originally thought to be an extinct species. In 1971, the animal was discovered to still be alive in the Chaco region, in the Argentine province of Salta. The species was well known to the native people, but it took a while for scientists to acknowledge its existence. It is known locally as the tagua.
Other animals of the family Tayassuidae
Chacoan peccary is a member of the Tayassuidae, as are these animals:
- Collared peccary with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White-lipped peccary with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Chacoan peccary
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- California red tree mouse
- Serval
- Cape ground squirrel
- Lowland ringtail possum
- Gray mouse lemur
- Golden palm civet
- Florida mouse
- Eurasian beaver
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat
- Yellow golden mole
Animals that get as old as a Chacoan peccary
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9 years:
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with 10 years
- Maned rat with 7.5 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with 10 years
- Lesser grison with 7.25 years
- Bush dog with 10.33 years
- Edible dormouse with 9 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 10 years
- California leaf-nosed bat with 10.33 years
- Blanford’s fox with 10 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Chacoan peccary
What other animals weight around 35.38 kg (78.01 lbs)?
- Giant muntjac usually reaching 36.69 kgs (80.89 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle usually reaching 41.58 kgs (91.67 lbs)
- Saiga antelope usually reaching 37.57 kgs (82.83 lbs)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat usually reaching 31.88 kgs (70.28 lbs)
- Red gazelle usually reaching 40 kgs (88.18 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle usually reaching 41 kgs (90.39 lbs)
- Snow leopard usually reaching 32.5 kgs (71.65 lbs)
- Himalayan goral usually reaching 28.75 kgs (63.38 lbs)
- Red kangaroo usually reaching 38.98 kgs (85.94 lbs)
- Springbok usually reaching 33.39 kgs (73.61 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Chacoan peccary
Also reaching around 1.03 meter (3′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Thomson’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Speke’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Falkland Islands wolf gets as big as 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Wolf gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Dorcas gazelle gets as big as 96.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Ogilby’s duiker gets as big as 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Siamang gets as big as 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Bornean orangutan gets as big as 89 cm (3′ 0″)
- Giant otter gets as big as 1.14 meter (3′ 9″)
- Mountain reedbuck gets as big as 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)