How many baby Bicolored-spined porcupines are in a litter?
A Bicolored-spined porcupine (Coendou bicolor) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Erethizontidae family (genus: Coendou). An adult Bicolored-spined porcupine grows up to a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″).
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 bicolored-spined porcupine (Coendou bicolor) is a species of nocturnal and arboreal rodent in the family Erethizontidae.It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.The head and body of Coendou bicolor measure about 543 mm, and another 481 mm is tail. The body is covered with dense spines, pale yellow at the base and black-tipped, and significantly darker on the midback. The bicolored-spined porcupine has a fully prehensile tail that is primarily free of spines (Eisenberg, 1989).
Other animals of the family Erethizontidae
Bicolored-spined porcupine is a member of the Erethizontidae, as are these animals:
- Brazilian porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bahia porcupine weighting only 999 grams
- North American porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black dwarf porcupine weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine weighting around 2 kilograms (4.41 lbs)
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupine weighting only 736 grams
- Black dwarf porcupine weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine weighting only 751 grams
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine weighting around 1.9 kilograms (4.19 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Bicolored-spined porcupine
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Ryukyu flying fox
- South American fur seal
- Grey seal
- Van Gelder’s bat
- Indiana bat
- Spix’s night monkey
- Miniopterus macrocneme
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Rough-haired golden mole
Animals with the same weight as a Bicolored-spined porcupine
What other animals weight around 4.49 kg (9.9 lbs)?
- Verreaux’s sifaka usually reaching 3.61 kgs (7.96 lbs)
- Tayra usually reaching 4.14 kgs (9.13 lbs)
- Marsh mongoose usually reaching 3.6 kgs (7.94 lbs)
- Hairy long-nosed armadillo usually reaching 4.44 kgs (9.79 lbs)
- European wildcat usually reaching 4.53 kgs (9.99 lbs)
- Kirk’s dik-dik usually reaching 4.8 kgs (10.58 lbs)
- Antelope jackrabbit usually reaching 3.93 kgs (8.66 lbs)
- Allied rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.63 kgs (10.21 lbs)
- Tammar wallaby usually reaching 5.28 kgs (11.64 lbs)
- Arctic hare usually reaching 4.42 kgs (9.74 lbs)