How many baby Capybaras are in a litter?
A Capybara (Hydrochaeris 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 148 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.5 kg (3.31 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Hydrochaeridae family (genus: Hydrochaeris). An adult Capybara grows up to a size of 1.22 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.
Animals that share a litter size with Capybara
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Himalayan field rat
- Dark-tailed tree rat
- Southern flying squirrel
- Water deer
- Plains harvest mouse
- Deroo’s mouse
- Transbaikal zokor
- Lesser hamster-rat
- Savanna gerbil
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat
Animals that get as old as a Capybara
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Sugar glider with 14 years
- Small Indian civet with 10.5 years
- Silver dik-dik with 14 years
- Royal antelope with 14 years
- White-tailed mongoose with 12 years
- Suni with 14 years
- Fisher (animal) with 10.08 years
- Cape ground squirrel with 13 years
- Central American agouti with 10 years
- Heterohyrax antineae with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Capybara
What other animals weight around 47.5 kg (104.72 lbs)?
- Capybara usually reaching 48.14 kgs (106.13 lbs)
- Celebes warty pig usually reaching 53.46 kgs (117.86 lbs)
- Grant’s gazelle usually reaching 55 kgs (121.25 lbs)
- Brown hyena usually reaching 42.98 kgs (94.75 lbs)
- Aardvark usually reaching 56.85 kgs (125.33 lbs)
- Red kangaroo usually reaching 38.98 kgs (85.94 lbs)
- Goat usually reaching 47.14 kgs (103.93 lbs)
- Vaquita usually reaching 43.11 kgs (95.04 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle usually reaching 41.58 kgs (91.67 lbs)
- Red gazelle usually reaching 40 kgs (88.18 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Capybara
Also reaching around 1.22 meter (4′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Giant anteater gets as big as 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
- Puku gets as big as 1.34 meter (4′ 5″)
- Wolf gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat gets as big as 1 meter (3′ 4″)
- Barbary sheep gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Oribi gets as big as 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Dhole gets as big as 98.8 cm (3′ 3″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle gets as big as 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Baikal seal gets as big as 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Caspian seal gets as big as 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)