How many baby Burmese ferret-badgers are in a litter?
A Burmese ferret-badger (Melogale personata) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 210 grams (0.46 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Melogale). An adult Burmese ferret-badger grows up to a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″).
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 Burmese ferret-badger (Melogale personata), also known as the large-toothed ferret-badger, is a mustelid native to Southeast Asia.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
Burmese ferret-badger is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- Bornean ferret-badger with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Honey badger with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Indonesian mountain weasel weighting only 466 grams
- Neotropical otter with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Sable with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Eurasian otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Asian small-clawed otter with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-footed ferret with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed weasel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Colombian weasel weighting only 211 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Burmese ferret-badger
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Smith’s red rock hare
- Spotted-necked otter
- Eastern gray squirrel
- Savi’s pipistrelle
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Thomas’s giant deer mouse
- Antelope jackrabbit
- True’s vole
- Black-tufted marmoset
- Cape gray mongoose
Animals with the same weight as a Burmese ferret-badger
What other animals weight around 1.85 kg (4.07 lbs)?
- Tree pangolin usually reaching 1.54 kgs (3.4 lbs)
- Stein’s cuscus usually reaching 1.85 kgs (4.08 lbs)
- Gilbert’s potoroo usually reaching 1.57 kgs (3.46 lbs)
- Striped hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 2.01 kgs (4.43 lbs)
- Cape genet usually reaching 2.07 kgs (4.56 lbs)
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
- Steppe polecat usually reaching 1.68 kgs (3.7 lbs)
- Scaly-tailed possum usually reaching 1.81 kgs (3.99 lbs)
- Silky cuscus usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
- Andean hairy armadillo usually reaching 2.14 kgs (4.72 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Burmese ferret-badger
Also reaching around 39.9 cm (1′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Malagasy civet gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Groundhog gets as big as 41.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Desert cottontail gets as big as 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Bushy-tailed mongoose gets as big as 44.6 cm (1′ 6″)
- Black dwarf porcupine gets as big as 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Slender mongoose gets as big as 33 cm (1′ 1″)
- Central African oyan gets as big as 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Northern olingo gets as big as 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- White-throated guenon gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Short-beaked echidna gets as big as 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)