How many baby Beech martens are in a litter?
A Beech marten (Martes foina) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 30 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 8.9 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Martes). An adult Beech marten grows up to a size of 46 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 beech marten (Martes foina), also known as the stone marten, house marten or white breasted marten, is a species of marten native to much of Europe and Central Asia, though it has established a feral population in North America. It is listed as Least Concern by the IUCN on account of its wide distribution, its large population, and its presence in a number of protected areas. It is superficially similar to the pine marten, but differs from it by its smaller size and habitat preferences. While the pine marten is a forest specialist, the beech marten is a more generalist and adaptable species, occurring in a number of open and forest habitats.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
Beech marten is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- Asian small-clawed otter with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hooded skunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Malayan weasel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Smooth-coated otter with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Sunda stink badger weighting around 2.5 kilograms (5.51 lbs)
- Colombian weasel weighting only 211 grams
- American hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser grison becoming 7.25 years old
- Striped hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Palawan stink badger weighting around 2.5 kilograms (5.51 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Beech marten
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- European mole
- Eastern pygmy possum
- Oligoryzomys nigripes
- Ochre mole-rat
- American hog-nosed skunk
- Irenomys
- Desert mouse
- Japanese mole
- Large mole
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat
Animals that get as old as a Beech marten
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18.08 years:
- Lesser horseshoe bat with 21 years
- Australian sea lion with 16 years
- Common marmoset with 16.75 years
- Japanese serow with 18.5 years
- Nyala with 16 years
- Six-banded armadillo with 18.75 years
- Wolverine with 18 years
- European pine marten with 17 years
- Big hairy armadillo with 20 years
- East African oryx with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Beech marten
What other animals weight around 1.67 kg (3.69 lbs)?
- Eastern common cuscus usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- Eastern bettong usually reaching 1.66 kgs (3.66 lbs)
- Black-footed cat usually reaching 1.36 kgs (3 lbs)
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine usually reaching 1.9 kgs (4.19 lbs)
- Atlantic titi usually reaching 1.39 kgs (3.06 lbs)
- Aquatic genet usually reaching 1.65 kgs (3.64 lbs)
- Rothschild’s porcupine usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
- Java mouse-deer usually reaching 1.88 kgs (4.14 lbs)
- African savanna hare usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Long-tailed porcupine usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Beech marten
Also reaching around 46 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine gets as big as 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Asian palm civet gets as big as 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Broom hare gets as big as 50.2 cm (1′ 8″)
- Barbary macaque gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat gets as big as 38.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Colombian white-faced capuchin gets as big as 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Red giant flying squirrel gets as big as 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Peruvian spider monkey gets as big as 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- Small Indian civet gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Indian grey mongoose gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)