How many baby Big hairy armadillos are in a litter?
A Big hairy armadillo (Chaetophractus villosus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 69 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 125 grams (0.28 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Dasypodidae family (genus: Chaetophractus). An adult Big hairy armadillo grows up to a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 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 big hairy armadillo or large hairy armadillo or “enormous hairy armadillo”(Chaetophractus villosus) is one of the largest and most numerous armadillos in South America. It lives from sea level to altitudes of up to 1,300 meters across the southern portion of South America, and can be found in grasslands, forests, and savannahs, and has even started claiming agricultural areas as its home. It is an accomplished digger and spends most of its time below ground. It makes both temporary and long-term burrows, depending on its food source. The armadillo can use specially evolved membranes in its nose to obtain oxygen from the surrounding soil particles without inhaling any of the soil itself. Armadillos are protected from predators by a series of thin, bony plates along the head and back. They reach sexual maturity at around 9 months and have been known to live over 30 years in captivity. Though this animal is routinely harvested for its meat and its shell, or simply killed for pestering farmers, it has shown amazing resiliency, and populations seem to be handling this exploitation well. Currently, no protective practices are in place for this armadillo, but it does live in many protected areas. This species of armadillo is a preferred research animal due to its adaptability to laboratory settings, and relative hardiness in situations of stress.
Other animals of the family Dasypodidae
Big hairy armadillo is a member of the Dasypodidae, as are these animals:
- Giant armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo weighting around 1.49 kilograms (3.28 lbs)
- Southern long-nosed armadillo with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Southern three-banded armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo weighting around 1.49 kilograms (3.28 lbs)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Seven-banded armadillo with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Greater naked-tailed armadillo weighting around 5.35 kilograms (11.79 lbs)
- Greater fairy armadillo becoming 12 years old
- Six-banded armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Big hairy armadillo
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Desert long-eared bat
- Sowerby’s beaked whale
- Bongo (antelope)
- Banded palm civet
- Harp seal
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat
- Baikal seal
- Mongolian gazelle
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat
- Blue duiker
Animals that get as old as a Big hairy armadillo
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20 years:
- Plains zebra with 20 years
- Alpine marmot with 18 years
- Japanese serow with 18.5 years
- Mountain zebra with 24 years
- L’Hoest’s monkey with 16 years
- Black wildebeest with 20 years
- Ross seal with 21 years
- Kob with 21.92 years
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with 20.17 years
- Red river hog with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Big hairy armadillo
What other animals weight around 4.46 kg (9.82 lbs)?
- Red fox usually reaching 4.83 kgs (10.65 lbs)
- Crab-eating macaque usually reaching 4.58 kgs (10.1 lbs)
- Pampas cat usually reaching 4.4 kgs (9.7 lbs)
- Greater cane rat usually reaching 3.75 kgs (8.27 lbs)
- Royal antelope usually reaching 3.9 kgs (8.6 lbs)
- Chinese pangolin usually reaching 4.67 kgs (10.3 lbs)
- Marsh mongoose usually reaching 3.6 kgs (7.94 lbs)
- Kit fox usually reaching 4.5 kgs (9.92 lbs)
- Pagai Island macaque usually reaching 4.53 kgs (9.99 lbs)
- Brazilian porcupine usually reaching 4.12 kgs (9.08 lbs)