How many baby Asian palm civets are in a litter?
A Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 61 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 92 grams (0.2 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Paradoxurus). An adult Asian palm civet grows up to a size of 53.3 cm (1′ 9″).
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 Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia. Since 2008, it is IUCN Red Listed as Least Concern as it accommodates to a broad range of habitats. It is widely distributed with large populations that in 2008 were thought unlikely to be declining.In Indonesia, it is threatened by poaching and illegal wildlife trade; buyers use it for the increasing production of kopi luwak, a form of coffee that involves ingestion and excretion of the beans by the animal.Asian palm civets are claimed to be the carrier that transmitted SARS from horseshoe bats to humans.
Other animals of the family Viverridae
Asian palm civet is a member of the Viverridae, as are these animals:
- Abyssinian genet weighting around 1.41 kilograms (3.11 lbs)
- African civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Large-spotted civet weighting around 4.53 kilograms (9.99 lbs)
- Angolan genet weighting around 1.86 kilograms (4.1 lbs)
- Eastern falanouc with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Binturong with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Haussa genet weighting around 1.4 kilograms (3.09 lbs)
- Malagasy civet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Servaline genet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape genet with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Asian palm civet
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Mexican volcano mouse
- True’s shrew mole
- Aztec mouse
- Four-toed hedgehog
- Tasmanian pygmy possum
- Tibetan sand fox
- Kivu long-haired shrew
- Bower’s white-toothed rat
- Griselda’s striped grass mouse
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa
Animals that get as old as a Asian palm civet
Other animals that usually reach the age of 22.42 years:
- Subantarctic fur seal with 23 years
- Hartebeest with 20 years
- Cougar with 20 years
- Fringed myotis with 18.25 years
- Eurasian otter with 22 years
- West Caucasian tur with 20.5 years
- Eurasian beaver with 25 years
- Bharal with 24 years
- Lechwe with 18.5 years
- De Brazza’s monkey with 26.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Asian palm civet
What other animals weight around 3.2 kg (7.05 lbs)?
- Ethiopian highland hare usually reaching 2.77 kgs (6.11 lbs)
- Cozumel raccoon usually reaching 2.96 kgs (6.53 lbs)
- Egyptian mongoose usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat usually reaching 3.05 kgs (6.72 lbs)
- Tufted capuchin usually reaching 2.76 kgs (6.08 lbs)
- Wolffsohn’s viscacha usually reaching 2.68 kgs (5.91 lbs)
- Southern tree hyrax usually reaching 3.18 kgs (7.01 lbs)
- Omilteme cottontail usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Crested agouti usually reaching 2.65 kgs (5.84 lbs)
- Kaapori capuchin usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Asian palm civet
Also reaching around 53.3 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- African palm civet gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Red lemur gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Tiger quoll gets as big as 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Marsh mongoose gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Ursine colobus gets as big as 63.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Mona monkey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tasmanian devil gets as big as 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Ethiopian highland hare gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Arabian gazelle gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Selous’s mongoose gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)