How many baby Aardvarks are in a litter?
A Aardvark (Orycteropus afer) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 222 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.9 kg (4.19 lbs) and measure 2.37 meter (7′ 10″). They are a member of the Orycteropodidae family (genus: Orycteropus). An adult Aardvark grows up to a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 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 aardvark ( ARD-vark; Orycteropus afer) is a medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa. It is the only living species of the order Tubulidentata, although other prehistoric species and genera of Tubulidentata are known. Unlike other insectivores, it has a long pig-like snout, which is used to sniff out food. It roams over most of the southern two-thirds of the African continent, avoiding areas that are mainly rocky. A nocturnal feeder, it subsists on ants and termites, which it will dig out of their hills using its sharp claws and powerful legs. It also digs to create burrows in which to live and rear its young. It receives a “least concern” rating from the IUCN, although its numbers seem to be decreasing.Aardvarks are afrotheres, a clade which also includes elephants, manatees, and hyraxes.
Animals that share a litter size with Aardvark
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Northeast African mole-rat
- Cuban solenodon
- Southern tree hyrax
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- De Vis’s woolly rat
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat
- Pale-throated sloth
- Proboscis monkey
- Japanese macaque
Animals that get as old as a Aardvark
Other animals that usually reach the age of 24 years:
- Common wallaroo with 24 years
- Barbary sheep with 21 years
- Pond bat with 19.5 years
- Verreaux’s sifaka with 20.58 years
- Binturong with 22.67 years
- Sambar deer with 26.42 years
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with 24.5 years
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with 19.75 years
- Grévy’s zebra with 26 years
- Eastern grey kangaroo with 24 years
Animals with the same weight as a Aardvark
What other animals weight around 56.85 kg (125.33 lbs)?
- Impala usually reaching 52.45 kgs (115.63 lbs)
- Northern fur seal usually reaching 55.58 kgs (122.53 lbs)
- Abbott’s duiker usually reaching 56.68 kgs (124.96 lbs)
- Nubian ibex usually reaching 47.68 kgs (105.12 lbs)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle usually reaching 48.5 kgs (106.92 lbs)
- Caspian seal usually reaching 62.3 kgs (137.35 lbs)
- Fallow deer usually reaching 56.71 kgs (125.02 lbs)
- Urial usually reaching 51.8 kgs (114.2 lbs)
- Capybara usually reaching 48.14 kgs (106.13 lbs)
- Vicuña usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Aardvark
Also reaching around 1.26 meter (4′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Bohor reedbuck gets as big as 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Ringed seal gets as big as 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- American black bear gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Iberian ibex gets as big as 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Peters’s duiker gets as big as 1.02 meter (3′ 4″)
- Giant otter gets as big as 1.14 meter (3′ 9″)
- Sumatran serow gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Blackbuck gets as big as 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Saiga antelope gets as big as 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Philippine deer gets as big as 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)