How many baby Brown hyenas are in a litter?
A Brown hyena (Hyaena 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 6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Hyaenidae family (genus: Hyaena). 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:
- Brown hyena with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Striped hyena with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Spotted hyena with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Aardwolf with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Aardwolf with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Brown hyena
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Tres Marías Island mouse
- Leopard cat
- Mexican harvest mouse
- Lesser cane rat
- Peters’s striped mouse
- Saharan striped polecat
- Slender rat
- Jungle palm squirrel
- Lundomys
- Bobcat
Animals that get as old as a Brown hyena
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17 years:
- Dall sheep with 16 years
- Red-rumped agouti with 17.75 years
- South American coati with 17.67 years
- Goitered gazelle with 20 years
- Japanese serow with 18.5 years
- Common pipistrelle with 16.67 years
- Dorcas gazelle with 17.42 years
- Lesser kudu with 18.92 years
- Microcebus coquereli with 15.25 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Brown hyena
What other animals weight around 42.98 kg (94.75 lbs)?
- Chimpanzee usually reaching 45.03 kgs (99.27 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle usually reaching 41.58 kgs (91.67 lbs)
- Cheetah usually reaching 50.54 kgs (111.42 lbs)
- Pronghorn usually reaching 47.18 kgs (104.01 lbs)
- Chilean dolphin usually reaching 45 kgs (99.21 lbs)
- Heaviside’s dolphin usually reaching 40 kgs (88.18 lbs)
- Japanese serow usually reaching 43.03 kgs (94.86 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer usually reaching 45.8 kgs (100.97 lbs)
- Philippine deer usually reaching 49.46 kgs (109.04 lbs)
- Capybara usually reaching 48.14 kgs (106.13 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Brown hyena
Also reaching around 1.2 meter (4′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Abbott’s duiker gets as big as 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- Red goral gets as big as 1.04 meter (3′ 5″)
- Giant anteater gets as big as 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
- Bharal gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Aardvark gets as big as 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Javan warty pig gets as big as 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Himalayan goral gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Four-horned antelope gets as big as 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Iberian lynx gets as big as 96.3 cm (3′ 2″)
- Blackbuck gets as big as 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)