How many baby Brown hyenas are in a litter?
A Brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 95 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 693 grams (1.53 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Hyaenidae family (genus: Parahyaena). An adult Brown hyena grows up to a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″).
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 brown hyena (Hyaena brunnea), also called strandwolf, is a species of hyena found in Namibia, Botswana, western and southern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique and South Africa. It is currently the rarest species of hyena. The largest remaining brown hyena population is located in the southern Kalahari Desert and coastal areas in Southwest Africa. The global population of brown hyena is estimated by IUCN at a number between 4,000 and 10,000 and its conservation status is marked as near threatened in the IUCN Red List.
Other animals of the family Hyaenidae
Brown hyena is a member of the Hyaenidae, as are these animals:
- Aardwolf with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Brown hyena with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Aardwolf with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Striped hyena with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Spotted hyena with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Brown hyena
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat
- Common gundi
- Zempoaltepec
- Japanese house bat
- Lundomys
- Schlieffen’s bat
- Allegheny woodrat
- Kodkod
- Fossa (animal)
- Long-nosed bandicoot
Animals that get as old as a Brown hyena
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17 years:
- Salt’s dik-dik with 14 years
- Red brocket with 13.75 years
- European polecat with 14 years
- European badger with 16.17 years
- Sharpe’s grysbok with 14 years
- Goitered gazelle with 20 years
- Bohor reedbuck with 18 years
- Kirk’s dik-dik with 16.5 years
- Red-rumped agouti with 17.75 years
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with 20.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Brown hyena
What other animals weight around 43.4 kg (95.68 lbs)?
- Hector’s dolphin usually reaching 50 kgs (110.23 lbs)
- Capybara usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
- Vicuña usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
- Gerenuk usually reaching 38.65 kgs (85.21 lbs)
- Cheetah usually reaching 50.54 kgs (111.42 lbs)
- Japanese serow usually reaching 42.6 kgs (93.92 lbs)
- Giant muntjac usually reaching 36.69 kgs (80.89 lbs)
- Vaquita usually reaching 43.11 kgs (95.04 lbs)
- Capybara usually reaching 48.14 kgs (106.13 lbs)
- Heaviside’s dolphin usually reaching 40 kgs (88.18 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Brown hyena
Also reaching around 1.2 meter (4′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Soemmerring’s gazelle gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Spotted hyena gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Bornean bearded pig gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Peters’s duiker gets as big as 1.02 meter (3′ 4″)
- Capybara gets as big as 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)
- Caspian seal gets as big as 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Philippine deer gets as big as 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Common warthog gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Giant anteater gets as big as 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
- Blackbuck gets as big as 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)