How many baby Chinese ferret-badgers are in a litter?
A Chinese ferret-badger (Melogale moschata) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 210 grams (0.46 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Melogale). An adult Chinese ferret-badger grows up to a size of 38.5 cm (1′ 4″).
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 Chinese ferret-badger (Melogale moschata), also known as the small-toothed ferret-badger is a member of the Mustelidae, and widely distributed in Southeast Asia. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List and considered tolerant of modified habitat.The Chinese ferret-badger is densely distributed mainly across areas of Central to Southern China.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
Chinese ferret-badger is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- Eurasian otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Smooth-coated otter with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with 2 babies per pregnancy
- American mink with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Hog badger with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Nilgiri marten weighting around 2.04 kilograms (4.5 lbs)
- Sea otter with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Steppe polecat with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-nosed otter weighting around 5.97 kilograms (13.16 lbs)
- European mink with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Chinese ferret-badger
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Lesser bamboo rat
- Greater dwarf lemur
- Golden lion tamarin
- Fawn hopping mouse
- Canada lynx
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat
- Fennec fox
- Glacier rat
- Island fox
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Chinese ferret-badger
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10.5 years:
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with 12.33 years
- Agile wallaby with 12 years
- Black giant squirrel with 10.08 years
- Common spotted cuscus with 11 years
- Northern tamandua with 9.5 years
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby with 12 years
- Spectral tarsier with 12 years
- Eastern cottontail with 9 years
- Maxwell’s duiker with 12.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Chinese ferret-badger
What other animals weight around 939 grams (2.07 lbs)?
- Azara’s night monkey weighting 929 grams
- Red-bellied titi weighting 962 grams
- Spectacled flying fox weighting 759 grams
- Western white-eared giant rat weighting 932 grams
- Lesser grison usually reaching 1 kgs (2.2 lbs)
- Travancore flying squirrel weighting 794 grams
- Long-nosed potoroo usually reaching 1.07 kgs (2.36 lbs)
- Conover’s tuco-tuco weighting 860 grams
- Gray-bellied night monkey weighting 800 grams
- Sunda flying lemur usually reaching 1.11 kgs (2.45 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Chinese ferret-badger
Also reaching around 38.5 cm (1′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Black bearded saki gets as big as 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Philippine flying lemur gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Weyland ringtail possum gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- African savanna hare gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Mexican cottontail gets as big as 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Gambian mongoose gets as big as 35 cm (1′ 2″)
- Nine-banded armadillo gets as big as 44.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Manzano Mountain cottontail gets as big as 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Malagasy civet gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Banded linsang gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)