How many baby Cacomistles are in a litter?
A Cacomistle (Bassariscus sumichrasti) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 27 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 5.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Procyonidae family (genus: Bassariscus). An adult Cacomistle grows up to a size of 42.5 cm (1′ 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 cacomistle (Bassariscus sumichrasti) is a nocturnal, arboreal and omnivorous member of the carnivoran family Procyonidae. Its preferred habitats are wet, tropical, evergreen woodlands and mountain forests, though seasonally it will venture into drier deciduous forests.Nowhere in its range (from southern Mexico to western Panama) is B. sumichrasti common. This is especially true in Costa Rica, where it inhabits only a very small area. It is completely dependent on forest habitat, making it particularly susceptible to deforestation.The term cacomistle is from the Nahuatl language (tlahcomiztli) and means “half cat” or “half mountain lion”; it is sometimes also used to refer to the ringtail, Bassariscus astutus, a similar species that inhabits arid northern Mexico and the American Southwest.
Other animals of the family Procyonidae
Cacomistle is a member of the Procyonidae, as are these animals:
- Northern olingo weighting around 1.2 kilograms (2.65 lbs)
- Raccoon with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Northern olingo weighting around 1.2 kilograms (2.65 lbs)
- Eastern lowland olingo weighting only 620 grams
- Crab-eating raccoon with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Kinkajou with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cozumel raccoon weighting around 2.96 kilograms (6.53 lbs)
- Bahamian raccoon with 3 babies per pregnancy
- South American coati with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Tres Marias raccoon raching a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals that share a litter size with Cacomistle
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- African wading rat
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Eastern gray squirrel
- Hoary bat
- Lowland ringtail possum
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse
- Bushpig
- Japanese house bat
- Marine otter
Animals that get as old as a Cacomistle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 23 years:
- Goat with 20.75 years
- Red wolf with 20 years
- Guatemalan black howler with 20 years
- Dall’s porpoise with 22 years
- South American fur seal with 21 years
- Eurasian beaver with 25 years
- Barbary sheep with 21 years
- Margay with 20 years
- Brown-mantled tamarin with 24.5 years
- Goitered gazelle with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Cacomistle
What other animals weight around 906 grams (2 lbs)?
- Bahia porcupine weighting 999 grams
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk weighting 960 grams
- Conover’s tuco-tuco weighting 860 grams
- Utah prairie dog weighting 900 grams
- Bronze quoll weighting 896 grams
- Black-footed ferret weighting 907 grams
- Bolivian bamboo rat weighting 729 grams
- Screaming hairy armadillo weighting 930 grams
- Western white-eared giant rat weighting 932 grams
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupine weighting 736 grams
Animals with the same size as a Cacomistle
Also reaching around 42.5 cm (1′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- American marten gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- White-fronted surili gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Chinese pangolin gets as big as 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Gilbert’s potoroo gets as big as 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Sable gets as big as 45.1 cm (1′ 6″)
- Bronze quoll gets as big as 35.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Crested mona monkey gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Red-eared guenon gets as big as 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Woodlark cuscus gets as big as 37.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- European polecat gets as big as 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)