How many baby Bushy-tailed mongooses are in a litter?
A Bushy-tailed mongoose (Bdeogale crassicauda) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 34 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 5.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Herpestidae family (genus: Bdeogale). An adult Bushy-tailed mongoose grows up to a size of 44.6 cm (1′ 6″).
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.
Other animals of the family Herpestidae
Bushy-tailed mongoose is a member of the Herpestidae, as are these animals:
- Bengal mongoose weighting only 741 grams
- Cape gray mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Indian grey mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Common kusimanse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Namaqua slender mongoose weighting only 750 grams
- Pousargues’s mongoose with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Brown-tailed mongoose becoming 4.75 years old
- Liberian mongoose weighting around 1.82 kilograms (4.01 lbs)
- Alexander’s kusimanse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bushy-tailed mongoose
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Caribbean monk seal
- Pemba flying fox
- Mountain gazelle
- Natterer’s bat
- Collared mangabey
- North Atlantic right whale
- Long-tongued fruit bat
- Straw-coloured fruit bat
- Spotted seal
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat
Animals with the same weight as a Bushy-tailed mongoose
What other animals weight around 1.72 kg (3.79 lbs)?
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat usually reaching 1.84 kgs (4.06 lbs)
- Common genet usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Northern brushtail possum usually reaching 1.55 kgs (3.42 lbs)
- Rusty-spotted genet usually reaching 1.95 kgs (4.3 lbs)
- Greater bamboo lemur usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
- African savanna hare usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Short-tailed mongoose usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel usually reaching 1.43 kgs (3.15 lbs)
- Steppe polecat usually reaching 1.68 kgs (3.7 lbs)
- Tolai hare usually reaching 1.59 kgs (3.51 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bushy-tailed mongoose
Also reaching around 44.6 cm (1′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Yunnan hare gets as big as 47 cm (1′ 7″)
- Black-tailed jackrabbit gets as big as 48.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat gets as big as 37.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Red-bellied lemur gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Crested mona monkey gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Hispid hare gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- American hog-nosed skunk gets as big as 42.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- De Vis’s woolly rat gets as big as 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- Cozumel raccoon gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)