How many baby Jamaican coneys are in a litter?
A Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 120 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 85 grams (0.19 lbs) and measure 14.6 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Capromyidae family (genus: Geocapromys). An adult Jamaican coney grows up to a size of 37.8 cm (1′ 3″).
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 Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii), also known as the Jamaican hutia and the Browns hutia, is a terrestrial land mammal found in the rocky, forested areas of Jamaica, and is endemic to the Island. It is in the order Rodentia and the family Capromyidae.It is related to the hutias and more distantly to guinea pigs. It is the only extant native land mammal on Jamaica besides bats.
Other animals of the family Capromyidae
Jamaican coney is a member of the Capromyidae, as are these animals:
- Hispaniolan hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bahamian hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eared hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Prehensile-tailed hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Desmarest’s hutia with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Little Swan Island hutia weighting around 1.5 kilograms (3.31 lbs)
- Black-tailed hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Jamaican coney
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Mount Pirri isthmus rat
- Himalayan striped squirrel
- Red tree vole
- Ashy chinchilla rat
- Asian black bear
- Duthie’s golden mole
- Mountain beaver
- Peters’s striped mouse
- Lundomys
- Calamian deer
Animals that get as old as a Jamaican coney
Other animals that usually reach the age of 8.25 years:
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 9.75 years
- American pika with 7 years
- Black-shouldered opossum with 7.83 years
- Sarcophilus laniarius with 8.17 years
- Chacoan peccary with 9 years
- Eastern pygmy possum with 8 years
- San Diego pocket mouse with 8.25 years
- White-footed sportive lemur with 8.58 years
- American hog-nosed skunk with 7 years
- Mongolian gazelle with 7 years
Animals with the same weight as a Jamaican coney
What other animals weight around 1.5 kg (3.3 lbs)?
- Indian giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.68 kgs (3.7 lbs)
- Northern olingo usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Reclusive ringtail possum usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 1.49 kgs (3.28 lbs)
- Yarkand hare usually reaching 1.47 kgs (3.24 lbs)
- Rothschild’s cuscus usually reaching 1.37 kgs (3.02 lbs)
- Grandidier’s mongoose usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Northern olingo usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Long-tailed porcupine usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- Chinese hare usually reaching 1.61 kgs (3.55 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Jamaican coney
Also reaching around 37.8 cm (1′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Menzbier’s marmot gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel gets as big as 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Long-tailed chinchilla gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Eastern bettong gets as big as 33.1 cm (1′ 2″)
- Burmese ferret-badger gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Japanese marten gets as big as 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Black dwarf porcupine gets as big as 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Subalpine woolly rat gets as big as 41.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Greater bamboo lemur gets as big as 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Marbled polecat gets as big as 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)