How many baby Brazilian porcupines are in a litter?
A Brazilian porcupine (Coendou prehensilis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 200 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 411 grams (0.91 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Erethizontidae family (genus: Coendou). An adult Brazilian porcupine grows up to a size of 46.9 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 Brazilian porcupine. (Coendou prehensilis) is a porcupine found in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Bolivia and Trinidad, with a single record from Ecuador. It inhabits tropical forests at elevations up to 1500 m.The body is covered with short, thick spines which are whitish or yellowish in color, mixed with the darker hair, while the underside is grayish. The lips and nose are fleshy. The tail is prehensile, with the tip curling upward so as to get a better grip on tree branches. This porcupine can grow to forty inches long (1 m), but half of that is tail. It weighs about nine pounds (4.1 kg). No spines are found on the tail, which is long (330–485 mm). Its feet are reflective of their arboreal lifestyle, well-adapted for gripping branches, with four long-clawed toes on each.
Other animals of the family Erethizontidae
Brazilian porcupine is a member of the Erethizontidae, as are these animals:
- Black dwarf porcupine weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupine weighting only 736 grams
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine weighting around 1.9 kilograms (4.19 lbs)
- Mexican hairy dwarf porcupine weighting around 2 kilograms (4.41 lbs)
- Stump-tailed porcupine weighting only 832 grams
- Black dwarf porcupine weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Bicolored-spined porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- North American porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bahia porcupine weighting only 999 grams
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Brazilian porcupine
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Walrus
- Bare-backed rousette
- Brown fur seal
- Western woolly lemur
- Gulf Coast kangaroo rat
- Peleng tarsier
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Sitatunga
- Admiralty Island cuscus
- Short-eared possum
Animals that get as old as a Brazilian porcupine
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17.25 years:
- Golden jackal with 16 years
- Bay duiker with 17 years
- Jentink’s duiker with 17.5 years
- Hirola with 15.17 years
- Yellow-backed duiker with 17.25 years
- Short-eared possum with 17 years
- Brown greater galago with 18.75 years
- White-nosed coati with 17.67 years
- Risso’s dolphin with 20 years
- Whiptail wallaby with 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Brazilian porcupine
What other animals weight around 4.12 kg (9.08 lbs)?
- Allied rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.63 kgs (10.21 lbs)
- White-tailed mongoose usually reaching 3.66 kgs (8.07 lbs)
- Toque macaque usually reaching 4.66 kgs (10.27 lbs)
- Thick-spined porcupine usually reaching 4.59 kgs (10.12 lbs)
- Asian small-clawed otter usually reaching 3.53 kgs (7.78 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 3.37 kgs (7.43 lbs)
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 4.06 kgs (8.95 lbs)
- Long-tailed marmot usually reaching 4.35 kgs (9.59 lbs)
- Alpine marmot usually reaching 4.06 kgs (8.95 lbs)
- Tayra usually reaching 4.14 kgs (9.13 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Brazilian porcupine
Also reaching around 46.9 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey gets as big as 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Golden palm civet gets as big as 48.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Tres Marias rabbit gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Abyssinian genet gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Flat-headed cat gets as big as 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Common brushtail possum gets as big as 47.4 cm (1′ 7″)
- American hog-nosed skunk gets as big as 42.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel gets as big as 41 cm (1′ 5″)
- Black-footed cat gets as big as 40.1 cm (1′ 4″)