How many baby Common genets are in a litter?
A Common genet (Genetta genetta) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 74 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 77 grams (0.17 lbs) and measure 14.6 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Genetta). An adult Common genet grows up to a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″).
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 genet (Genetta genetta) is a small viverrid indigenous to Africa that was introduced to southwestern Europe and the Balearic Islands. It is widely distributed north of the Sahara, in savanna zones south of the Sahara to southern Africa and along the coast of Arabia, Yemen and Oman. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Other animals of the family Viverridae
Common genet is a member of the Viverridae, as are these animals:
- Angolan genet weighting around 1.86 kilograms (4.1 lbs)
- Giant forest genet weighting around 2.74 kilograms (6.04 lbs)
- Banded palm civet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern falanouc with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hose’s palm civet raching a size of 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
- Small Indian civet with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Binturong with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Banded linsang with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Asian palm civet with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Small-toothed palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Common genet
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- African black shrew
- African striped weasel
- Mexican deer mouse
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse
- Japanese house bat
- Gray-bellied caenolestid
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat
- Southern brown bandicoot
- Yunnan hare
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
Animals that get as old as a Common genet
Other animals that usually reach the age of 34 years:
- Toque macaque with 35 years
- Bobcat with 32.33 years
- King colobus with 30.5 years
- Ring-tailed lemur with 30 years
- Crabeater seal with 39 years
- Red-tailed monkey with 28.25 years
- Walrus with 40 years
- Daubenton’s bat with 28 years
- Lion with 30 years
- Indian flying fox with 31.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common genet
What other animals weight around 1.77 kg (3.9 lbs)?
- Malagasy civet usually reaching 1.86 kgs (4.1 lbs)
- Red-bellied lemur usually reaching 2.03 kgs (4.48 lbs)
- Rothschild’s porcupine usually reaching 2 kgs (4.41 lbs)
- Abyssinian hare usually reaching 2.02 kgs (4.45 lbs)
- African savanna hare usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Coppery ringtail possum usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Cape genet usually reaching 2.07 kgs (4.56 lbs)
- Eastern common cuscus usually reaching 1.75 kgs (3.86 lbs)
- Steppe polecat usually reaching 1.68 kgs (3.7 lbs)
- Telefomin cuscus usually reaching 1.44 kgs (3.17 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Common genet
Also reaching around 55.4 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Brazilian porcupine gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Lowland paca gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Thick-spined porcupine gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Kloss’s gibbon gets as big as 51.2 cm (1′ 9″)
- Woolly flying squirrel gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Hoolock gibbon gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Barbary macaque gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Southern muriqui gets as big as 57.8 cm (1′ 11″)
- Tana River mangabey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tenkile gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)