How many baby Broad-striped Malagasy mongooses are in a litter?
A Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose (Galidictis fasciata) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 48 grams (0.11 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Herpestidae family (genus: Galidictis). An adult Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose grows up to a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″).
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 broad-striped Malagasy mongoose (Galidictis fasciata) is a species of Galidiinae, a subfamily of mongoose-like euplerids native to Madagascar. The species contains two known subspecies: Galidictis fasciata fasciata and Galidictis fasciata striata.Their main distinguishing factors are their stripes and their tails; G. f. fasciata has a fuller, reddish-brown tail and 8-10 stripes, while G. f. striata has a thinner, white tail and 5 stripes. They are all forest-dweller on the eastern side of the island, and their primary prey is small rodents. This species is most active in the evening and at night.The specific epithet fasciata means ‘banded’ in Latin. Its local common name is vontsira fotsy, ‘white vontsira’ in Malagasy.
Other animals of the family Herpestidae
Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose is a member of the Herpestidae, as are these animals:
- Marsh mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed mongoose weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Jackson’s mongoose weighting around 2.5 kilograms (5.51 lbs)
- Angolan slender mongoose weighting only 750 grams
- Indian grey mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bengal mongoose weighting only 741 grams
- Selous’s mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Crab-eating mongoose with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Ruddy mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bushy-tailed mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Painted ringtail possum
- Red-shanked douc
- Grey-cheeked mangabey
- Collared mangabey
- Plains viscacha
- Common minke whale
- Swamp wallaby
- Rothschild’s woolly rat
- Common brown lemur
- Scully’s tube-nosed bat
Animals with the same weight as a Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
What other animals weight around 550 grams (1.21 lbs)?
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat weighting 465 grams
- Greater dwarf lemur weighting 447 grams
- Xerus erythropus weighting 602 grams
- Pemba flying fox weighting 541 grams
- Insular flying fox weighting 560 grams
- Columbian ground squirrel weighting 471 grams
- Yellow-bellied glider weighting 568 grams
- Brumback’s night monkey weighting 603 grams
- Beecroft’s flying squirrel weighting 479 grams
- Malayan weasel weighting 569 grams
Animals with the same size as a Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
Also reaching around 31.9 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Short-tailed chinchilla gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Central African oyan gets as big as 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Black giant squirrel gets as big as 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- American marten gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Lutrine opossum gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Eastern quoll gets as big as 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Golden lion tamarin gets as big as 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Eastern barred bandicoot gets as big as 32.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Bagobo rat gets as big as 28.9 cm (1′ 0″)