How many baby Binturongs are in a litter?
A Binturong (Arctictis binturong) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 92 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 317 grams (0.7 lbs) and measure 21.5 cm (0′ 9″). They are a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Arctictis). An adult Binturong grows up to a size of 78.7 cm (2′ 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 binturong ( bin-TOO-rong) (Arctictis binturong), also known as bearcat, is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia. It is uncommon in much of its range, and has been assessed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List because of a declining population trend that is estimated at more than 30% since the mid 1980s.The binturong was first described by Thomas Stamford Raffles in 1822.The genus Arctictis is monotypic and morphologically similar to the genera Paradoxurus and Paguma. The name Arctictis means ‘bear-weasel’, from Greek arkt- ‘bear’ + iktis ‘weasel’.In Riau, Indonesia it was known as tenturun.
Other animals of the family Viverridae
Binturong is a member of the Viverridae, as are these animals:
- Haussa genet weighting around 1.4 kilograms (3.09 lbs)
- Common genet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Small-toothed palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern falanouc with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown palm civet with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Crested servaline genet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Banded palm civet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Otter civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Angolan genet weighting around 1.86 kilograms (4.1 lbs)
- Giant forest genet weighting around 2.74 kilograms (6.04 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Binturong
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Burmese ferret-badger
- Saiga antelope
- Black-tufted marmoset
- Tasmanian devil
- Deppe’s squirrel
- Brown bear
- Van Deusen’s rat
- American pika
- Rusty-spotted cat
- Pronghorn
Animals that get as old as a Binturong
Other animals that usually reach the age of 22.67 years:
- Antarctic fur seal with 23 years
- Wild boar with 21 years
- Aardwolf with 25 years
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with 20 years
- Black crested mangabey with 26.75 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with 21.17 years
- De Brazza’s monkey with 26.25 years
- Golden lion tamarin with 24.75 years
- White-faced saki with 20.67 years
- Cheetah with 19 years
Animals with the same weight as a Binturong
What other animals weight around 13 kg (28.66 lbs)?
- Serval usually reaching 11.9 kgs (26.23 lbs)
- Black-striped wallaby usually reaching 11.23 kgs (24.76 lbs)
- Tibetan macaque usually reaching 10.6 kgs (23.37 lbs)
- Black snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 11 kgs (24.25 lbs)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 13.46 kgs (29.67 lbs)
- Coyote usually reaching 12 kgs (26.46 lbs)
- Red-flanked duiker usually reaching 12.06 kgs (26.59 lbs)
- Black-fronted duiker usually reaching 14.44 kgs (31.83 lbs)
- Ocelot usually reaching 11.89 kgs (26.21 lbs)
- Crested porcupine usually reaching 13.4 kgs (29.54 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Binturong
Also reaching around 78.7 cm (2′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Thomson’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Agile wallaby gets as big as 64.6 cm (2′ 2″)
- Masked palm civet gets as big as 63.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Culpeo gets as big as 72 cm (2′ 5″)
- Leopard cat gets as big as 68.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Collared peccary gets as big as 88.6 cm (2′ 11″)
- Lowland paca gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Coyote gets as big as 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Aardwolf gets as big as 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Sulawesi palm civet gets as big as 68.9 cm (2′ 4″)