How many baby Common gundis are in a litter?
A Common gundi (Ctenodactylus gundi) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 66 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 29 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 1.9 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Ctenodactylidae family (genus: Ctenodactylus). An adult Common gundi grows up to a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″).
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 gundi (Ctenodactylus gundi) is a species of rodent in the family Ctenodactylidae. It is found in Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia. The parasitic organism Toxoplasma gondii was first described in 1908 in Tunis by Charles Nicolle and Louis Manceaux within the tissues of the gundi.
Other animals of the family Ctenodactylidae
Common gundi is a member of the Ctenodactylidae, as are these animals:
- Val’s gundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mzab gundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Felou gundi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Speke’s pectinator with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Common gundi
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Durango chipmunk
- Common yellow-toothed cavy
- Mountain ground squirrel
- Serval
- Reindeer
- Angoni vlei rat
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
- White-throated woodrat
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat
- Golden spiny mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Common gundi
What other animals weight around 289 grams (0.64 lbs)?
- Pteropus temmincki weighting 250 grams
- Admiralty flying fox weighting 305 grams
- Short-tailed spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Microcebus coquereli weighting 328 grams
- White-tailed olalla rat weighting 274 grams
- Aldabra flying fox weighting 309 grams
- Fijian monkey-faced bat weighting 256 grams
- Hairy Atlantic spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Southern Plains woodrat weighting 255 grams
- Common punaré weighting 298 grams
Animals with the same size as a Common gundi
Also reaching around 20.8 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Large treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Royle’s pika gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gaoligong pika gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ladak pika gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Alston’s mouse opossum gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mountain spiny rat gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Silky anteater gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel gets as big as 22.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Allen’s squirrel gets as big as 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Striped treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)