How many baby Banded linsangs are in a litter?
A Banded linsang (Prionodon linsang) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 40 grams (0.09 lbs) and measure 18.3 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Prionodon). An adult Banded linsang grows up to a size of 40 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 banded linsang (Prionodon linsang) is a linsang, a tree-dwelling carnivorous mammal native to the Sundaic region of Southeast Asia.
Other animals of the family Viverridae
Banded linsang is a member of the Viverridae, as are these animals:
- African civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Brown palm civet with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Binturong with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Central African oyan with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Giant forest genet weighting around 2.74 kilograms (6.04 lbs)
- African palm civet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Large Indian civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Small Indian civet with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Otter civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Fossa (animal) with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Banded linsang
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
- White-lipped peccary
- Pygmy rock mouse
- Cinereus ringtail possum
- Common rock rat
- Tasmanian devil
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
- Siberian flying squirrel
- Agile kangaroo rat
- Web-footed tenrec
Animals that get as old as a Banded linsang
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10.67 years:
- Greater bilby with 10 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
- Maxwell’s duiker with 12.25 years
- Common dwarf mongoose with 10.92 years
- Maned sloth with 12 years
- Parma wallaby with 10 years
- Ground cuscus with 12 years
- Pudú with 12.5 years
- Southern tree hyrax with 12.25 years
- Lesser long-nosed bat with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Banded linsang
What other animals weight around 684 grams (1.51 lbs)?
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum weighting 796 grams
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog weighting 690 grams
- Rakali weighting 626 grams
- Meerkat weighting 730 grams
- Moustached tamarin weighting 557 grams
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel weighting 675 grams
- European hedgehog weighting 789 grams
- Arctic ground squirrel weighting 747 grams
- Narrow-striped mongoose weighting 664 grams
- Moluccan flying fox weighting 728 grams
Animals with the same size as a Banded linsang
Also reaching around 40 cm (1′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Six-banded armadillo gets as big as 44.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Indian grey mongoose gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Nasuella olivacea gets as big as 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Large-spotted civet gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo gets as big as 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Yellow-bellied marmot gets as big as 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel gets as big as 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Mountain cuscus gets as big as 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Spotted giant flying squirrel gets as big as 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Philippine flying lemur gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)