How many baby Banded mongooses are in a litter?
A Banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 60 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 24 grams (0.05 lbs) and measure 9.9 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Herpestidae family (genus: Mungos). An adult Banded mongoose grows up to a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″).
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 mongoose (Mungos mungo) is a mongoose species native from the Sahel to Southern Africa. It lives in savannas, open forests and grasslands and feeds primarily on beetles and millipedes. Mongooses use various types of dens for shelter including termite mounds. While most mongoose species live solitary lives, the banded mongoose live in colonies with a complex social structure.
Other animals of the family Herpestidae
Banded mongoose is a member of the Herpestidae, as are these animals:
- Namaqua slender mongoose weighting only 750 grams
- Common dwarf mongoose with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Bushy-tailed mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Meller’s mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Angolan kusimanse weighting only 700 grams
- Brown-tailed mongoose becoming 4.75 years old
- Narrow-striped mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Jackson’s mongoose weighting around 2.5 kilograms (5.51 lbs)
- Slender mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Grandidier’s mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Banded mongoose
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- True’s vole
- Short-tailed gymnure
- Western barred bandicoot
- Yellow golden mole
- Lundomys
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat
- Dusky-footed woodrat
- Fraser’s musk shrew
- Hoary bat
- Particolored flying squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Banded mongoose
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Maned sloth with 12 years
- Black-footed cat with 12 years
- Parti-coloured bat with 12 years
- Capybara with 12 years
- White-tailed mongoose with 12 years
- Salt’s dik-dik with 14 years
- Meerkat with 12.5 years
- Arabian gazelle with 11.25 years
- Striped skunk with 12.92 years
- Common bent-wing bat with 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Banded mongoose
What other animals weight around 1.26 kg (2.78 lbs)?
- Black-headed night monkey usually reaching 1.06 kgs (2.34 lbs)
- Hodgson’s giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.48 kgs (3.26 lbs)
- Atlantic titi usually reaching 1.39 kgs (3.06 lbs)
- Coppery titi usually reaching 1.12 kgs (2.47 lbs)
- Boodie usually reaching 1.45 kgs (3.2 lbs)
- Servaline genet usually reaching 1.24 kgs (2.73 lbs)
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo usually reaching 1.15 kgs (2.54 lbs)
- Northern bettong usually reaching 1.26 kgs (2.78 lbs)
- Brown greater galago usually reaching 1.22 kgs (2.69 lbs)
- Malagasy giant rat usually reaching 1.18 kgs (2.6 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Banded mongoose
Also reaching around 36.3 cm (1′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Podogymnura truei gets as big as 31.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Aye-aye gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Red-bellied lemur gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Sunda flying lemur gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Snowshoe hare gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Cape hare gets as big as 42.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Subalpine woolly rat gets as big as 41.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- White-eared opossum gets as big as 36 cm (1′ 3″)
- White-footed saki gets as big as 39.4 cm (1′ 4″)