How many baby Bushveld elephant shrews are in a litter?
A Bushveld elephant shrew (Elephantulus intufi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 51 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 10 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Macroscelididae family (genus: Elephantulus). An adult Bushveld elephant shrew grows up to a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″).
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 bushveld elephant shrew or bushveld sengi (Elephantulus intufi) is a species of elephant shrew in the family Macroscelididae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland and hot deserts.
Other animals of the family Macroscelididae
Bushveld elephant shrew is a member of the Macroscelididae, as are these animals:
- Rufous elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western rock elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Somali elephant shrew weighting only 32 grams
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Four-toed elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black and rufous elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- North African elephant shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bushveld elephant shrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Link rat
- Hoffmanns’s titi
- Long-tailed chinchilla
- Pagai Island macaque
- Bowhead whale
- White rhinoceros
- Hector’s dolphin
- Brown’s pademelon
- Little yellow bat
- Lion-tailed macaque
Animals that get as old as a Bushveld elephant shrew
Other animals that usually reach the age of 8.75 years:
- Oncilla with 10 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with 8 years
- Pallid bat with 9.08 years
- Cape gray mongoose with 8.67 years
- Cape fox with 10 years
- American pika with 7 years
- Speke’s pectinator with 10 years
- Congo rope squirrel with 9.5 years
- Western tree hyrax with 10 years
- Crest-tailed mulgara with 7 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bushveld elephant shrew
What other animals weight around 48 grams (0.11 lbs)?
- Guatemalan vole weighting 42 grams
- Pen-tailed treeshrew weighting 42 grams
- Flat-headed vole weighting 50 grams
- Guajira mouse opossum weighting 46 grams
- Mole-like rice tenrec weighting 39 grams
- Midas free-tailed bat weighting 45 grams
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse weighting 42 grams
- Alston’s cotton rat weighting 55 grams
- Mexican water mouse weighting 40 grams
- Hairy fruit-eating bat weighting 40 grams
Animals with the same size as a Bushveld elephant shrew
Also reaching around 11.7 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Maritime striped squirrel gets as big as 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mongolian gerbil gets as big as 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wood sprite gracile opossum gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwan vole gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sandhill dunnart gets as big as 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied caenolestid gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Masked flying fox gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse gets as big as 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- San José Island kangaroo rat gets as big as 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- San Quintin kangaroo rat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)