How many baby Cape genets are in a litter?
A Cape genet (Genetta tigrina) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 71 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 85 grams (0.19 lbs) and measure 14.6 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Genetta). An adult Cape genet grows up to a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″).
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 Cape genet (Genetta tigrina), also known as the South African large-spotted genet, is a genet species endemic to South Africa. As it is common and not threatened, it is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.Like other genets, it is nocturnal and arboreal, preferring to live in the riparian zones of forests, as long as these are not marshy areas.
Other animals of the family Viverridae
Cape genet is a member of the Viverridae, as are these animals:
- Johnston’s genet weighting around 2.23 kilograms (4.92 lbs)
- Binturong with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Abyssinian genet weighting around 1.41 kilograms (3.11 lbs)
- Small-toothed palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Masked palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Angolan genet weighting around 1.86 kilograms (4.1 lbs)
- Common genet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Owston’s palm civet weighting around 3.27 kilograms (7.21 lbs)
- Sulawesi palm civet weighting around 5.15 kilograms (11.35 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Cape genet
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Lesser bamboo rat
- African wading rat
- Jamaican coney
- Afghan vole
- African black shrew
- Allegheny woodrat
- Golden spiny mouse
- Fossa (animal)
- Mountain ground squirrel
- Southern brown bandicoot
Animals that get as old as a Cape genet
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- North American beaver with 15 years
- Tricolored bat with 15 years
- Wolverine with 18 years
- Celebes crested macaque with 18 years
- Bobak marmot with 15 years
- Common tsessebe with 18 years
- California myotis with 15 years
- Alpine marmot with 18 years
- Giant armadillo with 15 years
- Gray fox with 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a Cape genet
What other animals weight around 2.07 kg (4.56 lbs)?
- Andean hairy armadillo usually reaching 2.14 kgs (4.72 lbs)
- Meller’s mongoose usually reaching 2.24 kgs (4.94 lbs)
- Crab-eating mongoose usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Indian hare usually reaching 2.3 kgs (5.07 lbs)
- Swift fox usually reaching 2.11 kgs (4.65 lbs)
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine usually reaching 1.9 kgs (4.19 lbs)
- Swamp rabbit usually reaching 2.14 kgs (4.72 lbs)
- Rothschild’s porcupine usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
- Malagasy civet usually reaching 1.86 kgs (4.1 lbs)
- Crested servaline genet usually reaching 1.86 kgs (4.1 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Cape genet
Also reaching around 54.5 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Bay cat gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Angolan genet gets as big as 47.3 cm (1′ 7″)
- African savanna hare gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Southern muriqui gets as big as 57.8 cm (1′ 11″)
- Toque macaque gets as big as 48 cm (1′ 7″)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Brown’s pademelon gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Crested servaline genet gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Delacour’s langur gets as big as 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)