How many baby African striped weasels are in a litter?
A African striped weasel (Poecilogale albinucha) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 32 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Poecilogale). An adult African striped weasel grows up to a size of 30.4 cm (1′ 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 African striped weasel (Poecilogale albinucha), the lone member of its genus, is a small, black and white weasel native to sub-Saharan Africa.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
African striped weasel is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- Chinese ferret-badger with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Back-striped weasel weighting around 1.5 kilograms (3.31 lbs)
- Fisher (animal) with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser grison becoming 7.25 years old
- Yellow-throated marten with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Indonesian mountain weasel weighting only 466 grams
- Malayan weasel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain weasel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Sea otter with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with African striped weasel
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Sonoran woodrat
- Cape ground squirrel
- Thomas’s giant deer mouse
- Fossa (animal)
- Greater dwarf shrew
- Lowland ringtail possum
- Cape porcupine
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk
- Indian grey mongoose
Animals that get as old as a African striped weasel
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.17 years:
- Cairo spiny mouse with 5 years
- Hairy-tailed mole with 5 years
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with 5.83 years
- Fat-tailed gerbil with 4.33 years
- Plains rat with 5.58 years
- Bank vole with 4.83 years
- White-bellied duiker with 5.25 years
- Desert hedgehog with 4.5 years
- Sundevall’s jird with 5.58 years
- Northern grasshopper mouse with 5 years
Animals with the same weight as a African striped weasel
What other animals weight around 308 grams (0.68 lbs)?
- Lesser bilby weighting 364 grams
- Rodrigues flying fox weighting 256 grams
- Hammer-headed bat weighting 336 grams
- Lowland ringtail possum weighting 300 grams
- Allen’s woodrat weighting 368 grams
- Pteropus temmincki weighting 250 grams
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel weighting 250 grams
- Orange-brown Atlantic tree-rat weighting 296 grams
- Peruvian tree-rat weighting 315 grams
- Tumbala climbing rat weighting 280 grams
Animals with the same size as a African striped weasel
Also reaching around 30.4 cm (1′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Rock squirrel gets as big as 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Three-striped night monkey gets as big as 35.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Bulmer’s fruit bat gets as big as 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Common degu gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Slender mongoose gets as big as 33 cm (1′ 1″)
- Giant white-tailed rat gets as big as 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Small-toothed sportive lemur gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Western white-eared giant rat gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Indonesian mountain weasel gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Hagen’s flying squirrel gets as big as 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)