How many baby European pine martens are in a litter?
A European pine marten (Martes martes) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 30 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 8.9 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Martes). An adult European pine marten grows up to a size of 45.7 cm (1′ 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 European pine marten (Martes martes) is a mustelid native to Northern Europe.It is known most commonly as the pine marten in anglophone Europe, and less commonly also known as baum marten, or sweet marten.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
European pine marten is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Striped skunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Steppe polecat with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Neotropical otter with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Palawan stink badger weighting around 2.5 kilograms (5.51 lbs)
- Hooded skunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Patagonian weasel weighting only 225 grams
- Yellow-throated marten with 3 babies per pregnancy
- American mink with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Hog badger with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with European pine marten
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Smoky white-toothed shrew
- Four-toed hedgehog
- Cape gerbil
- Southern mole vole
- Singing vole
- Oldfield mouse
- Himalayan field rat
- Salt marsh harvest mouse
- Capybara
- Coruro
Animals that get as old as a European pine marten
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17 years:
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with 15.25 years
- Hector’s dolphin with 20 years
- Large Indian civet with 20 years
- Tayra with 18 years
- Red brocket with 13.75 years
- Dama gazelle with 17.25 years
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with 14.33 years
- Cheetah with 19 years
- Big hairy armadillo with 20 years
- Bohor reedbuck with 18 years
Animals with the same weight as a European pine marten
What other animals weight around 1.3 kg (2.87 lbs)?
- Fennec fox usually reaching 1.32 kgs (2.91 lbs)
- Indian giant squirrel usually reaching 1.06 kgs (2.34 lbs)
- Sable usually reaching 1.17 kgs (2.58 lbs)
- Southern three-banded armadillo usually reaching 1.32 kgs (2.91 lbs)
- Nabarlek usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Nasuella olivacea usually reaching 1.34 kgs (2.95 lbs)
- Emin’s pouched rat usually reaching 1.28 kgs (2.82 lbs)
- Hispaniolan hutia usually reaching 1.27 kgs (2.8 lbs)
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Eastern quoll usually reaching 1.12 kgs (2.47 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a European pine marten
Also reaching around 45.7 cm (1′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Stein’s cuscus gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Java mouse-deer gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Haussa genet gets as big as 42 cm (1′ 5″)
- Silky cuscus gets as big as 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Swift fox gets as big as 50.5 cm (1′ 8″)
- Alexander’s kusimanse gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Short-tailed mongoose gets as big as 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- White-striped dorcopsis gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Wedge-capped capuchin gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Common brushtail possum gets as big as 47.4 cm (1′ 7″)