How many baby Bahamian raccoons are in a litter?
A Bahamian raccoon (Procyon maynardi) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 63 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 82 grams (0.18 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Procyonidae family (genus: Procyon). An adult Bahamian raccoon grows up to a size of 46.2 cm (1′ 7″).
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 raccoon (Procyon lotor maynardi), also called Bahama raccoon or Bahamas raccoon, is a subspecies of the common raccoon endemic on the New Providence Island in the Bahamas. The binomial name, maynardi, comes from Charles Johnson Maynard, an American naturalist.
Other animals of the family Procyonidae
Bahamian raccoon is a member of the Procyonidae, as are these animals:
- Eastern lowland olingo weighting only 620 grams
- Ring-tailed cat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Northern olingo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern lowland olingo weighting around 1.24 kilograms (2.73 lbs)
- Kinkajou with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern olingo weighting around 1.2 kilograms (2.65 lbs)
- Nasuella olivacea weighting around 1.34 kilograms (2.95 lbs)
- Cozumel raccoon weighting around 2.96 kilograms (6.53 lbs)
- Crab-eating raccoon with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Raccoon with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bahamian raccoon
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Lesser white-toothed shrew
- Guinea pig
- Stella wood mouse
- Black-footed ferret
- Rakali
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse
- Transbaikal zokor
- Insular vole
- Southern short-tailed shrew
- Capybara
Animals that get as old as a Bahamian raccoon
Other animals that usually reach the age of 21 years:
- Galápagos fur seal with 22 years
- Red wolf with 20 years
- Eurasian otter with 22 years
- White-faced saki with 20.67 years
- Aye-aye with 24.25 years
- Ocelot with 20.25 years
- Sheep with 19.17 years
- Common tsessebe with 18 years
- Chamois with 22 years
- Muskox with 24 years
Animals with the same size as a Bahamian raccoon
Also reaching around 46.2 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey gets as big as 43.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Stein’s cuscus gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Robust cottontail gets as big as 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Angolan genet gets as big as 47.3 cm (1′ 7″)
- Asian small-clawed otter gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- South American coati gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Omilteme cottontail gets as big as 39.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- African savanna hare gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Pileated gibbon gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- White-nosed saki gets as big as 44 cm (1′ 6″)