How many baby Indian crested porcupines are in a litter?
A Indian crested porcupine (Hystrix indica) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 112 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 341 grams (0.75 lbs) and measure 15.1 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Hystricidae family (genus: Hystrix). An adult Indian crested porcupine grows up to a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″).
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 Indian crested porcupine (Hystrix indica), or Indian porcupine, is a large species of hystricomorph rodent (order Rodentia) belonging to the Old World porcupine family, Hystricidae. It is native to southern Asia and the Middle East.
Other animals of the family Hystricidae
Indian crested porcupine is a member of the Hystricidae, as are these animals:
- Cape porcupine with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine porcupine becoming 9.5 years old
- Crested porcupine with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed porcupine becoming 10.08 years old
- Malayan porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- African brush-tailed porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thick-spined porcupine weighting around 4.59 kilograms (10.12 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Indian crested porcupine
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Panamint kangaroo rat
- Cape porcupine
- Indian hedgehog
- Gray-bellied caenolestid
- Rusty-spotted cat
- Natal multimammate mouse
- Cape gray mongoose
- Crested servaline genet
- Savi’s pipistrelle
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
Animals with the same weight as a Indian crested porcupine
What other animals weight around 14.3 kg (31.52 lbs)?
- Ursine tree-kangaroo usually reaching 13.28 kgs (29.28 lbs)
- Dhole usually reaching 15.85 kgs (34.94 lbs)
- Saudi gazelle usually reaching 16 kgs (35.27 lbs)
- Zebra duiker usually reaching 15.53 kgs (34.24 lbs)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 13.5 kgs (29.76 lbs)
- Mandrill usually reaching 16.74 kgs (36.91 lbs)
- Red-necked wallaby usually reaching 16.83 kgs (37.1 lbs)
- Gelada usually reaching 15.98 kgs (35.23 lbs)
- Crested porcupine usually reaching 13.4 kgs (29.54 lbs)
- Proboscis monkey usually reaching 12.28 kgs (27.07 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Indian crested porcupine
Also reaching around 75 cm (2′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo gets as big as 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Gray fox gets as big as 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Otter civet gets as big as 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Pacarana gets as big as 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat gets as big as 85.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Serval gets as big as 83.5 cm (2′ 9″)
- Pampas fox gets as big as 62.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Jaguarundi gets as big as 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Side-striped jackal gets as big as 74.7 cm (2′ 6″)