How many baby Bahamian hutias are in a litter?
A Bahamian hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 106 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 76 grams (0.17 lbs) and measure 14.6 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Capromyidae family (genus: Geocapromys). An adult Bahamian hutia grows up to a size of 39.5 cm (1′ 4″).
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 Bahamian hutia or Ingraham’s hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami) is a species of rodent in the family Capromyidae. Geocapromys ingrahami is endemic to the Bahamas. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and rocky areas.
Other animals of the family Capromyidae
Bahamian hutia is a member of the Capromyidae, as are these animals:
- Eared hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Prehensile-tailed hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Jamaican coney with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Desmarest’s hutia with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hispaniolan hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Little Swan Island hutia weighting around 1.5 kilograms (3.31 lbs)
- Black-tailed hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bahamian hutia
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Variegated butterfly bat
- Silky anteater
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle
- Mount Cameroon forest shrew
- Sambar deer
- Rufous elephant shrew
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- Cape elephant shrew
- Verreaux’s sifaka
Animals that get as old as a Bahamian hutia
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6 years:
- Collared pika with 6 years
- Spectral bat with 6.5 years
- Kowari with 7 years
- Long-tailed dunnart with 5 years
- American pika with 7 years
- White-tailed rat with 6 years
- Least chipmunk with 6.25 years
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum with 6.33 years
- Uinta ground squirrel with 5 years
- Long-eared hedgehog with 6.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bahamian hutia
What other animals weight around 912 grams (2.01 lbs)?
- Maned rat weighting 755 grams
- Common echymipera weighting 825 grams
- Livingstone’s fruit bat weighting 733 grams
- Ashy black titi weighting 992 grams
- Red acouchi weighting 949 grams
- Aotus infulatus weighting 800 grams
- Bahia porcupine weighting 999 grams
- New England cottontail weighting 814 grams
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum weighting 765 grams
- Southern brown bandicoot weighting 825 grams
Animals with the same size as a Bahamian hutia
Also reaching around 39.5 cm (1′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Angolan genet gets as big as 47.3 cm (1′ 7″)
- Cape hare gets as big as 42.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Large-spotted civet gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Tufted capuchin gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Black lemur gets as big as 39.7 cm (1′ 4″)
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur gets as big as 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Eastern common cuscus gets as big as 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Greater bilby gets as big as 37.5 cm (1′ 3″)
- Angolan kusimanse gets as big as 32.6 cm (1′ 1″)