How many baby Giant armadillos are in a litter?
A Giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 124 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 113 grams (0.25 lbs) and measure 18.3 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Dasypodidae family (genus: Priodontes). An adult Giant armadillo grows up to a size of 87.4 cm (2′ 11″).
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 giant armadillo (Priodontes maximus), colloquially tatou, ocarro, tatu-canastra or tatú carreta, is the largest living species of armadillo (although their extinct relatives, the glyptodonts, were much larger). It lives in South America, ranging throughout as far south as northern Argentina. This species is considered vulnerable to extinction.The giant armadillo prefers termites and some ants as prey, and often consumes the entire population of a termite mound. It also has been known to prey upon worms, larvae and larger creatures, such as spiders and snakes, and plants.At least one zoo park, in Villavicencio, Colombia – Los Ocarros – is dedicated to this animal.
Other animals of the family Dasypodidae
Giant armadillo is a member of the Dasypodidae, as are these animals:
- Big hairy armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Andean hairy armadillo weighting around 2.14 kilograms (4.72 lbs)
- Greater fairy armadillo becoming 12 years old
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo weighting around 1.49 kilograms (3.28 lbs)
- Pichi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo weighting around 1.49 kilograms (3.28 lbs)
- Seven-banded armadillo with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Screaming hairy armadillo weighting only 930 grams
- Southern long-nosed armadillo with 8 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Giant armadillo
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Bonobo
- Bare-backed rousette
- Kloss’s gibbon
- Gelada
- Sunda flying lemur
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum
- Taiwan vole
- Zanzibar bushbaby
- Hairy-legged vampire bat
- Whiskered flying squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Giant armadillo
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- Greater bamboo lemur with 12 years
- Thylacine with 13 years
- Steenbok with 14 years
- Grant’s gazelle with 12.67 years
- European hare with 12 years
- Argali with 15 years
- Commerson’s dolphin with 18 years
- Northern bat with 15.5 years
- Saiga antelope with 12 years
- Pampas fox with 13.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Giant armadillo
What other animals weight around 41.33 kg (91.11 lbs)?
- Blackbuck usually reaching 36.1 kgs (79.59 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer usually reaching 46.48 kgs (102.47 lbs)
- Harnessed bushbuck usually reaching 43.28 kgs (95.42 lbs)
- Indian hog deer usually reaching 37.27 kgs (82.17 lbs)
- Vaquita usually reaching 43.11 kgs (95.04 lbs)
- Goat usually reaching 47.14 kgs (103.93 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle usually reaching 41 kgs (90.39 lbs)
- Wolf usually reaching 33.38 kgs (73.59 lbs)
- Bohor reedbuck usually reaching 43.09 kgs (95 lbs)
- Philippine deer usually reaching 49.46 kgs (109.04 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Giant armadillo
Also reaching around 87.4 cm (2′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Serval gets as big as 83.5 cm (2′ 9″)
- Bay duiker gets as big as 84.9 cm (2′ 10″)
- African civet gets as big as 79.2 cm (2′ 8″)
- Black duiker gets as big as 1.04 meter (3′ 6″)
- Steenbok gets as big as 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Peters’s duiker gets as big as 1.02 meter (3′ 4″)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Chinese mountain cat gets as big as 78.6 cm (2′ 7″)
- Siberian musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Ocelot gets as big as 74.6 cm (2′ 6″)