How many baby Central African oyans are in a litter?
A Central African oyan (Poiana richardsonii) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Poiana). An adult Central African oyan grows up to a size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″).
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 Central African oyan (Poiana richardsonii), also called Central African linsang, is a linsang species native to Central Africa.
Other animals of the family Viverridae
Central African oyan is a member of the Viverridae, as are these animals:
- Sulawesi palm civet weighting around 5.15 kilograms (11.35 lbs)
- Aquatic genet weighting around 1.65 kilograms (3.64 lbs)
- Binturong with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Small Indian civet with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Giant forest genet weighting around 2.74 kilograms (6.04 lbs)
- African civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Malabar large-spotted civet becoming 14 years old
- Abyssinian genet weighting around 1.41 kilograms (3.11 lbs)
- Aquatic genet weighting around 1.65 kilograms (3.64 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Central African oyan
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Western barred bandicoot
- Congo rope squirrel
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat
- Van Deusen’s rat
- Panamint kangaroo rat
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher
- Highland streaked tenrec
- Baluchistan pygmy jerboa
- Eurasian otter
- Armored rat
Animals that get as old as a Central African oyan
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.33 years:
- Greater bulldog bat with 5.75 years
- Rakali with 6.17 years
- Hazel dormouse with 6 years
- Woodland thicket rat with 4.33 years
- Common sheath-tailed bat with 5 years
- Uinta ground squirrel with 5 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with 6 years
- European water vole with 5 years
- Wood mouse with 4.33 years
- Mexican funnel-eared bat with 4.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Central African oyan
What other animals weight around 570 grams (1.26 lbs)?
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat weighting 489 grams
- Rakali weighting 626 grams
- Short-tailed chinchilla weighting 500 grams
- Black flying fox weighting 609 grams
- Superagüi lion tamarin weighting 605 grams
- New Guinean quoll weighting 611 grams
- Weyland ringtail possum weighting 456 grams
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat weighting 502 grams
- Allen’s squirrel weighting 465 grams
- Mexican gray squirrel weighting 456 grams
Animals with the same size as a Central African oyan
Also reaching around 37.9 cm (1′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Eastern quoll gets as big as 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel gets as big as 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Tiger quoll gets as big as 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Long-tailed chinchilla gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Patagonian weasel gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Cuban solenodon gets as big as 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine gets as big as 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Livingstone’s fruit bat gets as big as 34 cm (1′ 2″)