How many baby Central American agoutis are in a litter?
A Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 99 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6.87 kg (15.15 lbs) and measure 62.1 cm (2′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyproctidae family (genus: Dasyprocta). An adult Central American agouti grows up to a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″).
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 American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) is a species of agouti from the family Dasyproctidae. The main portion of its range is from Chiapas and the Yucatan Peninsula (southern Mexico), through Central America, to northwestern Ecuador, Colombia and far western Venezuela. A highly disjunct population is found in southeastern Peru, far southwestern Brazil, Bolivia, western Paraguay and far northwestern Argentina. The disjunct population has been treated as a separate species, the brown agouti (Dasyprocta variegata), but a major review of the geographic variation is necessary. The Central American agouti has also been introduced to Cuba, Bahamas, Jamaica, Hispaniola and the Cayman Islands.Though some populations are reduced due to hunting and deforestation, large populations remain and it is not considered threatened.
Other animals of the family Dasyproctidae
Central American agouti is a member of the Dasyproctidae, as are these animals:
- Black-rumped agouti with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-rumped agouti with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Azara’s agouti weighting around 2.98 kilograms (6.57 lbs)
- Kalinowski’s agouti weighting around 2.65 kilograms (5.84 lbs)
- Red acouchi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Black agouti weighting around 3.5 kilograms (7.72 lbs)
- Green acouchi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Orinoco agouti weighting around 2.65 kilograms (5.84 lbs)
- Red acouchi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crested agouti with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Central American agouti
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Hirola
- Alpine musk deer
- Maxwell’s duiker
- Western gorilla
- Sunda flying lemur
- Baikal seal
- American bison
- Red-fronted gazelle
- Common duiker
- Common tsessebe
Animals that get as old as a Central American agouti
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Eastern cottontail with 9 years
- Gray dorcopsis with 8 years
- Groundhog with 10 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- Pronghorn with 12 years
- Jungle cat with 12 years
- Brown mouse lemur with 12 years
- Northern treeshrew with 10 years
- Red-tailed chipmunk with 8 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Central American agouti
What other animals weight around 2.31 kg (5.09 lbs)?
- Greater bamboo lemur usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
- Stripe-necked mongoose usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Cape hare usually reaching 2.05 kgs (4.52 lbs)
- Southern tree hyrax usually reaching 2.71 kgs (5.97 lbs)
- Rusty-spotted genet usually reaching 1.95 kgs (4.3 lbs)
- Hispid hare usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Kinkajou usually reaching 2.45 kgs (5.4 lbs)
- Cape genet usually reaching 2.07 kgs (4.56 lbs)
- Smith’s red rock hare usually reaching 2.25 kgs (4.96 lbs)
- Black-footed mongoose usually reaching 2.62 kgs (5.78 lbs)