How many baby Bornean bearded pigs are in a litter?
A Bornean bearded pig (Sus barbatus) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 114 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 30 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 1.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Suidae family (genus: Sus). An adult Bornean bearded pig grows up to a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″).
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 Bornean bearded pig (Sus barbatus), also known ambiguously as the bearded pig, is a species in the pig genus, Sus.It can be recognized by its prominent beard. It also sometimes has tassels on its tail. It is found in Southeast Asia—Sumatra, Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, and various smaller islands like in Sulu archipelago such as Tawi-Tawi, where it inhabits rainforests and mangrove forests. The bearded pig lives in a family. It can reproduce from the age of 18 months, and can be cross-bred with other species in the family Suidae.
Other animals of the family Suidae
Bornean bearded pig is a member of the Suidae, as are these animals:
- Wild boar with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Red river hog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Common warthog becoming 15 years old
- Visayan warty pig with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Javan warty pig with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Bushpig with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Buru babirusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Celebes warty pig with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine warty pig with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Desert warthog with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bornean bearded pig
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- Flat-haired mouse
- Desert dormouse
- Mohave ground squirrel
- Gray leaf-eared mouse
- Julia Creek dunnart
- Arctic shrew
- North American brown lemming
- Siberian brown lemming
- Philippine warty pig
- Seven-banded armadillo
Animals with the same weight as a Bornean bearded pig
What other animals weight around 135.4 kg (298.51 lbs)?
- Bluebuck usually reaching 150 kgs (330.69 lbs)
- Striped dolphin usually reaching 142.05 kgs (313.17 lbs)
- Southern right whale dolphin usually reaching 116 kgs (255.74 lbs)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis usually reaching 110 kgs (242.51 lbs)
- Baiji usually reaching 112.07 kgs (247.07 lbs)
- Common tsessebe usually reaching 133.5 kgs (294.32 lbs)
- Amazon river dolphin usually reaching 121.22 kgs (267.24 lbs)
- Western gorilla usually reaching 113.29 kgs (249.76 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer usually reaching 161 kgs (354.94 lbs)
- American black bear usually reaching 110.75 kgs (244.16 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bornean bearded pig
Also reaching around 1.35 meter (4′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Sun bear gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Giant panda gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Sitatunga gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Vaquita gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Bohor reedbuck gets as big as 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Caspian seal gets as big as 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Galápagos fur seal gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- South Andean deer gets as big as 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Blackbuck gets as big as 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)