How many baby Large-eared tenrecs are in a litter?
A Large-eared tenrec (Geogale aurita) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 57 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 76 grams (0.17 lbs) and measure 14.6 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Tenrecidae family (genus: Geogale). An adult Large-eared tenrec grows up to a size of 7.1 cm (0′ 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 large-eared tenrec (Geogale aurita) is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Geogale, and the only member of the subfamily Geogalinae. It is endemic to Madagascar where its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss, but to a lesser extent than was previously thought and is listed by the IUCN as being of “Least Concern”.Geogale is thought to have split from the ancestors of its sister clade, the subfamily Oryzorictinae, about 30 million years ago.
Other animals of the family Tenrecidae
Large-eared tenrec is a member of the Tenrecidae, as are these animals:
- Montane shrew tenrec weighting only 13 grams
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec weighting only 18 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec weighting only 4 grams
- Giant otter shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec weighting only 22 grams
- Taiva shrew tenrec weighting only 12 grams
- Least shrew tenrec weighting only 3 grams
- Gracile shrew tenrec weighting only 23 grams
- Tailless tenrec with 16 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Large-eared tenrec
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Oligoryzomys nigripes
- Slender harvest mouse
- Cape gerbil
- Hooper’s mouse
- Broad-footed mole
- California chipmunk
- Abrothrix longipilis
- Bower’s white-toothed rat
- Mongolian five-toed jerboa
- Mountain pocket gopher
Animals with the same weight as a Large-eared tenrec
What other animals weight around 6 grams (0.01 lbs)?
- Marshall’s horseshoe bat weighting 5 grams
- Yellow-lipped bat weighting 5 grams
- Rendall’s serotine weighting 6 grams
- Malayan horseshoe bat weighting 6 grams
- Hutton’s tube-nosed bat weighting 7 grams
- Flores woolly bat weighting 6 grams
- White-winged serotine weighting 5 grams
- Honduran white bat weighting 5 grams
- Long-tailed planigale weighting 6 grams
- Nyctophilus arnhemensis weighting 6 grams
Animals with the same size as a Large-eared tenrec
Also reaching around 7.1 cm (0′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- White-eared pocket mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Great Basin pocket mouse gets as big as 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Velvety free-tailed bat gets as big as 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Woodford’s fruit bat gets as big as 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wilson’s spiny mouse gets as big as 8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Paratriaenops furculus gets as big as 6.7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Pale kangaroo mouse gets as big as 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater false vampire bat gets as big as 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mexican long-tongued bat gets as big as 6.6 cm (0′ 3″)