How many baby Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupines are in a litter?
A Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine (Sphiggurus villosus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Erethizontidae family (genus: Sphiggurus). An adult Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine grows up to a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″).
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 Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine, Coendou spinosus, is a South American porcupine species from the family Erethizontidae. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.They have a short tail and gray brown quills and feed on fruits, ant pupae, vegetables and roots.This species was formerly sometimes assigned to Sphiggurus, a genus no longer recognized since genetic studies showed it to be polyphyletic. The population formerly recognized as the orange-spined hairy dwarf porcupine (Sphiggurus villosus) has been reclassified to this species. Its closest relatives are the bicolored-spined porcupine (Coendou bicolor) and the black dwarf porcupine (Coendou nycthemera).
Other animals of the family Erethizontidae
Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine is a member of the Erethizontidae, as are these animals:
- Bahia porcupine weighting only 999 grams
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupine weighting only 736 grams
- Rothschild’s porcupine weighting around 2 kilograms (4.41 lbs)
- Bicolored-spined porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black dwarf porcupine weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine weighting around 2 kilograms (4.41 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine weighting around 1.9 kilograms (4.19 lbs)
- Brazilian porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- North American porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Chamois
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat
- Darling’s horseshoe bat
- Eastern forest bat
- White-striped dorcopsis
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat
- Blyth’s vole
- Parma wallaby
- Heart-nosed bat
- African sheath-tailed bat
Animals with the same weight as a Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine
What other animals weight around 1.75 kg (3.86 lbs)?
- Gilbert’s potoroo usually reaching 1.57 kgs (3.46 lbs)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- Steppe polecat usually reaching 1.68 kgs (3.7 lbs)
- Lac Alaotra bamboo lemur usually reaching 1.62 kgs (3.57 lbs)
- Selous’s mongoose usually reaching 1.67 kgs (3.68 lbs)
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine usually reaching 1.9 kgs (4.19 lbs)
- Tolai hare usually reaching 1.59 kgs (3.51 lbs)
- Boodie usually reaching 1.45 kgs (3.2 lbs)
- Long-tailed porcupine usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- Snowshoe hare usually reaching 1.57 kgs (3.46 lbs)