How many baby African palm civets are in a litter?
A African palm civet (Nandinia binotata) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 65 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 56 grams (0.12 lbs) and measure 3.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Nandinia). An adult African palm civet grows up to a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″).
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 African palm civet (Nandinia binotata), also known as the two-spotted palm civet, is a small feliform mammal widely distributed in sub-Saharan Africa. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Other animals of the family Viverridae
African palm civet is a member of the Viverridae, as are these animals:
- Johnston’s genet weighting around 2.23 kilograms (4.92 lbs)
- Crested servaline genet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Servaline genet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Binturong with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Fossa (animal) with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern falanouc with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Large-spotted civet weighting around 4.53 kilograms (9.99 lbs)
- Aquatic genet weighting around 1.65 kilograms (3.64 lbs)
- Central African oyan with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Small Indian civet with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with African palm civet
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Seychelles fruit bat
- Western brush wallaby
- Mountain zebra
- Hamlyn’s monkey
- Railer bat
- Dama gazelle
- Rio Mayo titi
- Rothschild’s woolly rat
- Arabian gazelle
- Southern long-nosed bat
Animals that get as old as a African palm civet
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18.5 years:
- Nubian ibex with 17 years
- Common warthog with 15 years
- Cape genet with 15 years
- Lesser horseshoe bat with 21 years
- East Caucasian tur with 22 years
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with 16 years
- Weyns’s duiker with 15.25 years
- Iberian ibex with 16 years
- Eld’s deer with 19.33 years
- Northern bat with 15.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a African palm civet
What other animals weight around 2.17 kg (4.78 lbs)?
- Hispid hare usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Silver dik-dik usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine usually reaching 1.9 kgs (4.19 lbs)
- Indian hare usually reaching 2.3 kgs (5.07 lbs)
- Mountain cuscus usually reaching 1.82 kgs (4.01 lbs)
- Natal red rock hare usually reaching 2.42 kgs (5.34 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 2.58 kgs (5.69 lbs)
- Pel’s flying squirrel usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Crab-eating mongoose usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Large bamboo rat usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a African palm civet
Also reaching around 50 cm (1′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Mantled howler gets as big as 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Rusty-spotted cat gets as big as 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- Venezuelan red howler gets as big as 56.1 cm (1′ 11″)
- Long-tailed porcupine gets as big as 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Tana River mangabey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tibetan macaque gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Marsh rabbit gets as big as 40.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Red-faced spider monkey gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Owston’s palm civet gets as big as 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)