How many baby Pygmy hogs are in a litter?
A Pygmy hog (Sus salvanius) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 110 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 30 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 1.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Suidae family (genus: Sus). An adult Pygmy hog grows up to a size of 59.9 cm (2′ 0″).
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 pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) is a suid native to alluvial grasslands in the foothills of the Himalayas at elevations of up to 300 m (980 ft). Today, the only known population lives in southern Bhutan and in Assam, India. As the population is estimated at less than 250 mature individuals, it is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
Other animals of the family Suidae
Pygmy hog is a member of the Suidae, as are these animals:
- Desert warthog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Bushpig with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Wild boar with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Common warthog becoming 15 years old
- Philippine warty pig with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Red river hog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Javan warty pig with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Buru babirusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant forest hog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan warty pig with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Pygmy hog
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Comb-toed jerboa
- Aztec mouse
- Eastern pygmy possum
- Arizona gray squirrel
- Japanese mountain mole
- Delany’s mouse
- European badger
- Woolly hare
- Père David’s mole
- Black-footed ferret
Animals that get as old as a Pygmy hog
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Malagasy civet with 11 years
- Common duiker with 14.25 years
- Common spotted cuscus with 11 years
- Pudú with 12.5 years
- Bat-eared fox with 13.75 years
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with 10.17 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 14 years
- Gerenuk with 13 years
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with 14 years
- Mindanao treeshrew with 11.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Pygmy hog
What other animals weight around 7.92 kg (17.45 lbs)?
- Black-crested Sumatran langur usually reaching 6.45 kgs (14.22 lbs)
- Javan surili usually reaching 6.57 kgs (14.48 lbs)
- Sarcophilus laniarius usually reaching 8.35 kgs (18.41 lbs)
- North American river otter usually reaching 8.09 kgs (17.84 lbs)
- Tana River red colobus usually reaching 8.03 kgs (17.7 lbs)
- Western red colobus usually reaching 8.43 kgs (18.58 lbs)
- Short-eared dog usually reaching 8.36 kgs (18.43 lbs)
- Western long-beaked echidna usually reaching 8.95 kgs (19.73 lbs)
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth usually reaching 6.61 kgs (14.57 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus usually reaching 8.91 kgs (19.64 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pygmy hog
Also reaching around 59.9 cm (2′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Mentawai langur gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- White-fronted surili gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pampas fox gets as big as 62.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Maroon leaf monkey gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Agile wallaby gets as big as 64.6 cm (2′ 2″)
- L’Hoest’s monkey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Western long-beaked echidna gets as big as 67.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- White-thighed surili gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pale-throated sloth gets as big as 54.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Arctic hare gets as big as 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)