How many baby Cape porcupines are in a litter?
A Cape porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 93 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 306 grams (0.67 lbs) and measure 15.1 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Hystricidae family (genus: Hystrix). An adult Cape porcupine grows up to a size of 22.6 cm (0′ 9″).
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 porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) or South African porcupine, is a species of Old World porcupine native to central and southern Africa.
Other animals of the family Hystricidae
Cape porcupine is a member of the Hystricidae, as are these animals:
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thick-spined porcupine weighting around 4.59 kilograms (10.12 lbs)
- African brush-tailed porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed porcupine becoming 10.08 years old
- Crested porcupine with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Indian crested porcupine with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine porcupine becoming 9.5 years old
- Malayan porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Cape porcupine
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Meller’s mongoose
- Brown hyena
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec
- Broad-toothed mouse
- Bastard big-footed mouse
- Long-tailed pygmy possum
- Dark-footed mouse shrew
- Japanese house bat
- Unalaska collared lemming
- Mexican deer mouse
Animals that get as old as a Cape porcupine
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20 years:
- Fossa (animal) with 20 years
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with 20 years
- Serval with 23 years
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with 20.17 years
- Madagascan fruit bat with 20 years
- Lesser horseshoe bat with 21 years
- Red river hog with 20 years
- Père David’s deer with 23.25 years
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with 23 years
- Giant eland with 16.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Cape porcupine
What other animals weight around 14.92 kg (32.89 lbs)?
- Malabar large-spotted civet usually reaching 12.08 kgs (26.63 lbs)
- Ethiopian wolf usually reaching 14.38 kgs (31.7 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 12.27 kgs (27.05 lbs)
- Alpine musk deer usually reaching 13.6 kgs (29.98 lbs)
- African civet usually reaching 12.09 kgs (26.65 lbs)
- Yellow baboon usually reaching 15.82 kgs (34.88 lbs)
- Pygmy brocket usually reaching 16.5 kgs (36.38 lbs)
- Whiptail wallaby usually reaching 12.67 kgs (27.93 lbs)
- Gray brocket usually reaching 16.63 kgs (36.66 lbs)
- Drill (animal) usually reaching 14.23 kgs (31.37 lbs)