How many baby Collared peccarys are in a litter?
A Collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 144 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 618 grams (1.36 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Tayassuidae family (genus: Pecari). An adult Collared peccary grows up to a size of 88.6 cm (2′ 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 collared peccary (Pecari tajacu) is a species of mammal in the family Tayassuidae found in North, Central, and South America. They are commonly referred to as javelina, saíno, or báquiro, although these terms are also used to describe other species in the family. The species is also known as the musk hog. In Trinidad, it is colloquially known as quenk.Although somewhat related to the pigs and frequently referred to as one, this species and the other peccaries are no longer classified in the pig family, Suidae.
Other animals of the family Tayassuidae
Collared peccary is a member of the Tayassuidae, as are these animals:
- Chacoan peccary with 2 babies per pregnancy
- White-lipped peccary with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Collared peccary
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- King colobus
- Sooty mustached bat
- Sinaloan mastiff bat
- Central American squirrel monkey
- Koslov’s pika
- Link rat
- Thumbless bat
- Least horseshoe bat
- Squirrel glider
- Gelada
Animals that get as old as a Collared peccary
Other animals that usually reach the age of 24.42 years:
- Eastern grey kangaroo with 24 years
- Kinkajou with 29 years
- Scimitar oryx with 20.42 years
- Gelada with 28 years
- Dall’s porpoise with 22 years
- Three-striped night monkey with 25.25 years
- Olive baboon with 25.17 years
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with 23 years
- Venezuelan red howler with 25 years
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo with 21 years
Animals with the same weight as a Collared peccary
What other animals weight around 21.19 kg (46.71 lbs)?
- Speke’s gazelle usually reaching 20 kgs (44.09 lbs)
- Four-horned antelope usually reaching 19.19 kgs (42.31 lbs)
- Peters’s duiker usually reaching 18.94 kgs (41.76 lbs)
- Chinkara usually reaching 18.91 kgs (41.69 lbs)
- Little red brocket usually reaching 21.05 kgs (46.41 lbs)
- Bornean yellow muntjac usually reaching 18.87 kgs (41.6 lbs)
- Lesser capybara usually reaching 21.27 kgs (46.89 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.6 kgs (49.82 lbs)
- Maned wolf usually reaching 23.31 kgs (51.39 lbs)
- North American beaver usually reaching 18.11 kgs (39.93 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Collared peccary
Also reaching around 88.6 cm (2′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Goa (antelope) gets as big as 98 cm (3′ 3″)
- Speke’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- North American beaver gets as big as 75.7 cm (2′ 6″)
- Binturong gets as big as 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle gets as big as 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Dwarf musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Red goral gets as big as 1.04 meter (3′ 5″)
- Bay duiker gets as big as 84.9 cm (2′ 10″)
- Hairy-nosed otter gets as big as 76.5 cm (2′ 7″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)