How many baby Common dwarf mongooses are in a litter?
A Common dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 54 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Herpestidae family (genus: Helogale). An adult Common dwarf mongoose grows up to a size of 20.2 cm (0′ 8″).
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 common dwarf mongoose (Helogale parvula), also called the dwarf mongoose, is a small African carnivore belonging to the mongoose family (Herpestidae). It is part of the genus Helogale and as such related to Helogale hirtula.
Other animals of the family Herpestidae
Common dwarf mongoose is a member of the Herpestidae, as are these animals:
- Stripe-necked mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Angolan slender mongoose weighting only 750 grams
- Long-nosed mongoose weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Alexander’s kusimanse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pousargues’s mongoose with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Black-footed mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Namaqua slender mongoose weighting only 750 grams
- Common kusimanse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Ring-tailed vontsira with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-striped mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Common dwarf mongoose
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse
- Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
- Meerkat
- Russian desman
- Southern grasshopper mouse
- Brandt’s hedgehog
- Derby’s woolly opossum
- Nicobar shrew
- Water opossum
- Gray climbing mouse
Animals that get as old as a Common dwarf mongoose
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10.92 years:
- Cape ground squirrel with 13 years
- Mountain pygmy possum with 12 years
- Philippine porcupine with 9.5 years
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with 12 years
- Maxwell’s duiker with 12.25 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 10.08 years
- Side-striped jackal with 11.42 years
- Meerkat with 12.5 years
- Arabian gazelle with 11.25 years
- Whiskered bat with 9.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common dwarf mongoose
What other animals weight around 283 grams (0.62 lbs)?
- Red-tailed squirrel weighting 319 grams
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Lesser bandicoot rat weighting 227 grams
- Cuvier’s spiny rat weighting 339 grams
- Wyoming ground squirrel weighting 325 grams
- Tome’s spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli weighting 256 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 302 grams
- Fire-footed rope squirrel weighting 243 grams
- Southern African hedgehog weighting 337 grams
Animals with the same size as a Common dwarf mongoose
Also reaching around 20.2 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Luzon broad-toothed rat gets as big as 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Cotton-top tamarin gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Tropical ground squirrel gets as big as 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Kinabalu squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Anthony’s woodrat gets as big as 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert hedgehog gets as big as 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Luzon striped rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Short-tailed Talaud mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Microcebus coquereli gets as big as 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)