How many baby Selous’s mongooses are in a litter?
A Selous’s mongoose (Paracynictis selousi) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Herpestidae family (genus: Paracynictis). An adult Selous’s mongoose grows up to a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 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.
Selous’s mongoose (Paracynictis selousi) is a carnivore of southern Africa. It is the only member of the genus Paracynictis in the mongoose family.
Other animals of the family Herpestidae
Selous’s mongoose is a member of the Herpestidae, as are these animals:
- Pousargues’s mongoose with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Brown-tailed mongoose becoming 4.75 years old
- Short-tailed mongoose with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Marsh mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Alexander’s kusimanse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-striped mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape gray mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Slender mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Angolan slender mongoose weighting only 750 grams
- Bengal mongoose weighting only 741 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Selous’s mongoose
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Black-tufted marmoset
- Champion’s tree mouse
- Greater long-tailed hamster
- Rusty-spotted genet
- Large tree mouse
- New Guinean jumping mouse
- Common rufous-nosed rat
- Iberian lynx
- Cacomistle
- Jaguarundi
Animals with the same weight as a Selous’s mongoose
What other animals weight around 1.67 kg (3.68 lbs)?
- Banded hare-wallaby usually reaching 1.94 kgs (4.28 lbs)
- Scaly-tailed possum usually reaching 1.81 kgs (3.99 lbs)
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo usually reaching 1.49 kgs (3.28 lbs)
- Golden bamboo lemur usually reaching 1.57 kgs (3.46 lbs)
- White-faced saki usually reaching 1.67 kgs (3.68 lbs)
- Gilbert’s potoroo usually reaching 1.57 kgs (3.46 lbs)
- Tufted ground squirrel usually reaching 1.35 kgs (2.98 lbs)
- Sumatran striped rabbit usually reaching 1.51 kgs (3.33 lbs)
- Manchurian hare usually reaching 1.84 kgs (4.06 lbs)
- Gambian mongoose usually reaching 1.64 kgs (3.62 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Selous’s mongoose
Also reaching around 42.8 cm (1′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- David’s echymipera gets as big as 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel gets as big as 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Golden-backed uakari gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Raffray’s bandicoot gets as big as 34.6 cm (1′ 2″)
- Kinkajou gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Wedge-capped capuchin gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Fennec fox gets as big as 37.5 cm (1′ 3″)
- White-bellied spider monkey gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel gets as big as 34.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- White-throated guenon gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)