How many baby Celebes warty pigs are in a litter?
A Celebes warty pig (Sus celebensis) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 126 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 30 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 1.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Suidae family (genus: Sus). An adult Celebes warty pig grows up to a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″).
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 Celebes warty pig (Sus celebensis), also called Sulawesi warty pig or Sulawesi pig, is a species in the pig genus (Sus) that lives on Sulawesi in Indonesia. It survives in most habitats and can live in altitudes of up to 2,500 m (8,000 ft). It has been domesticated and introduced to a number of other islands in Indonesia.
Other animals of the family Suidae
Celebes warty pig is a member of the Suidae, as are these animals:
- Common warthog becoming 15 years old
- Visayan warty pig with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Giant forest hog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Javan warty pig with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine warty pig with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Bushpig with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Red river hog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Desert warthog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Buru babirusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean bearded pig with 6 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Celebes warty pig
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Pale kangaroo mouse
- Swamp musk shrew
- Vancouver Island marmot
- Kashmir flying squirrel
- Eastern mole
- Kobe mole
- Abert’s squirrel
- Capybara
- Lesser gray-brown musk shrew
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Celebes warty pig
What other animals weight around 53.46 kg (117.85 lbs)?
- Visayan spotted deer usually reaching 46.48 kgs (102.47 lbs)
- Goat usually reaching 47.14 kgs (103.93 lbs)
- Harbour porpoise usually reaching 52.72 kgs (116.23 lbs)
- Northern fur seal usually reaching 55.58 kgs (122.53 lbs)
- Sika deer usually reaching 53 kgs (116.84 lbs)
- Abbott’s duiker usually reaching 56.68 kgs (124.96 lbs)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle usually reaching 48.5 kgs (106.92 lbs)
- Nubian ibex usually reaching 47.68 kgs (105.12 lbs)
- Aardvark usually reaching 56.85 kgs (125.33 lbs)
- Yellow-backed duiker usually reaching 61.65 kgs (135.91 lbs)