How many baby Malayan civets are in a litter?
A Malayan civet (Viverra tangalunga) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 6.09 kg (13.42 lbs) and measure 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Viverra). An adult Malayan civet grows up to a size of 65.7 cm (2′ 2″).
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 Malayan civet (Viverra tangalunga), also known as the Malay civet and Oriental civet, is a viverrid native to the Malay Peninsula and the islands of Sumatra, Bangka, Borneo, the Riau Archipelago, and the Philippines. It is listed as “Least Concern” by IUCN as it is a relatively widely distributed, appears to be tolerant of degraded habitats, and occurs in a number of protected areas.
Other animals of the family Viverridae
Malayan civet is a member of the Viverridae, as are these animals:
- Crested servaline genet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Brown palm civet with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Malabar large-spotted civet becoming 14 years old
- Angolan genet weighting around 1.86 kilograms (4.1 lbs)
- Spotted linsang with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Large-spotted civet weighting around 4.53 kilograms (9.99 lbs)
- Binturong with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Giant forest genet weighting around 2.74 kilograms (6.04 lbs)
- Central African oyan with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Malayan civet
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Painted ringtail possum
- Bates’s pygmy antelope
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- American bison
- Greater mouse-eared bat
- White-striped free-tailed bat
- Ground cuscus
- Müeller’s gibbon
- Eastern bettong
- Aberdare mole shrew
Animals that get as old as a Malayan civet
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Chinese ferret-badger with 10.5 years
- Hamlyn’s monkey with 13.5 years
- Jungle cat with 12 years
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with 13 years
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby with 12 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- Spectral tarsier with 12 years
- Long-nosed potoroo with 12 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with 12 years
- Gray brocket with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Malayan civet
What other animals weight around 7.35 kg (16.2 lbs)?
- Purple-faced langur usually reaching 7.53 kgs (16.6 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon usually reaching 6.7 kgs (14.77 lbs)
- Culpeo usually reaching 8.62 kgs (19 lbs)
- Jaguarundi usually reaching 6.88 kgs (15.17 lbs)
- Jaguarundi usually reaching 6.88 kgs (15.17 lbs)
- Northern nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 6.5 kgs (14.33 lbs)
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 6.65 kgs (14.66 lbs)
- Neotropical otter usually reaching 6.55 kgs (14.44 lbs)
- Black-backed jackal usually reaching 8.29 kgs (18.28 lbs)
- Koala usually reaching 6.55 kgs (14.44 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Malayan civet
Also reaching around 65.7 cm (2′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Bay cat gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo gets as big as 71.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Hoary fox gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Gray fox gets as big as 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- Zanzibar red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Beira (antelope) gets as big as 77.9 cm (2′ 7″)
- Hose’s palm civet gets as big as 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
- Common genet gets as big as 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
- South American coati gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Hamadryas baboon gets as big as 67.5 cm (2′ 3″)