How many baby Capybaras are in a litter?
A Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 150 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.5 kg (3.31 lbs) and measure 6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Caviidae family (genus: Hydrochoerus). An adult Capybara grows up to a size of 1.21 meter (4′ 0″).
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 capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris) is a giant cavy rodent native to South America. It is the largest living rodent in the world. Also called capivara (in Brazil), chigüire, chigüiro (in Colombia and Venezuela), carpincho (in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay) and ronsoco (in Peru), it is a member of the genus Hydrochoerus, of which the only other extant member is the lesser capybara (Hydrochoerus isthmius). Its close relatives include guinea pigs and rock cavies, and it is more distantly related to the agouti, the chinchilla, and the coypu. The capybara inhabits savannas and dense forests and lives near bodies of water. It is a highly social species and can be found in groups as large as 100 individuals, but usually lives in groups of 10–20 individuals. The capybara is not a threatened species, but it is hunted for its meat and hide and also for grease from its thick fatty skin.
Other animals of the family Caviidae
Capybara is a member of the Caviidae, as are these animals:
- Andean mountain cavy with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Brazilian guinea pig with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Shipton’s mountain cavy with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser capybara with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Rock cavy with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Patagonian mara with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chacoan mara with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Montane guinea pig with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Capybara
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Crosse’s shrew
- Western chestnut mouse
- Southern big-eared mouse
- Yarkand hare
- Plains rat
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk
- Bower’s white-toothed rat
- Western red-backed vole
- Greater Egyptian gerbil
- Brandt’s hedgehog
Animals that get as old as a Capybara
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 12 years
- Gerenuk with 13 years
- Long-tailed porcupine with 10.08 years
- Cape ground squirrel with 13 years
- Greater spear-nosed bat with 10 years
- Common treeshrew with 12.42 years
- Fisher (animal) with 10.08 years
- Hog badger with 13.92 years
- Pale fox with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Capybara
What other animals weight around 48.14 kg (106.14 lbs)?
- Bohor reedbuck usually reaching 43.09 kgs (95 lbs)
- Leopard usually reaching 52.4 kgs (115.52 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle usually reaching 41.58 kgs (91.67 lbs)
- Impala usually reaching 52.45 kgs (115.63 lbs)
- Giant armadillo usually reaching 41.33 kgs (91.12 lbs)
- Hector’s dolphin usually reaching 50 kgs (110.23 lbs)
- Bornean orangutan usually reaching 52.97 kgs (116.78 lbs)
- Japanese serow usually reaching 43.03 kgs (94.86 lbs)
- Northern fur seal usually reaching 55.58 kgs (122.53 lbs)
- Red gazelle usually reaching 40 kgs (88.18 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Capybara
Also reaching around 1.21 meter (4′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Javan warty pig gets as big as 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Dall sheep gets as big as 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Maned wolf gets as big as 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Himalayan goral gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Springbok gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Bohor reedbuck gets as big as 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Black duiker gets as big as 1.04 meter (3′ 6″)
- Leopard gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Bornean yellow muntjac gets as big as 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Common wombat gets as big as 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)