How many baby Common kusimanses are in a litter?
A Common kusimanse (Crossarchus obscurus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 8 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 70 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Herpestidae family (genus: Crossarchus). An adult Common kusimanse grows up to a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″).
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 kusimanse (Crossarchus obscurus), also known as the long-nosed kusimanse or simply cusimanse, is a small, diurnal kusimanse or dwarf mongoose. Of three subfamilies of Herpestidae (Herpestinae, Mungotinae and Galidiinae), the kusimanse is a member of Mungotinae, which are small and very social.
Other animals of the family Herpestidae
Common kusimanse is a member of the Herpestidae, as are these animals:
- Cape gray mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Grandidier’s mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose weighting only 485 grams
- White-tailed mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Common dwarf mongoose with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Stripe-necked mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Jackson’s mongoose weighting around 2.5 kilograms (5.51 lbs)
- Gambian mongoose weighting around 1.64 kilograms (3.62 lbs)
- Slender mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bushy-tailed mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Common kusimanse
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse
- Madras treeshrew
- Yellow-bellied marmot
- North African gerbil
- Groundhog
- Little pocket mouse
- Sandstone false antechinus
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse
- Andean vesper mouse
- Spinifex hopping mouse
Animals that get as old as a Common kusimanse
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9 years:
- Edible dormouse with 9 years
- Bushveld elephant shrew with 8.75 years
- Tasmanian devil with 8.17 years
- Red-necked pademelon with 9 years
- Speke’s pectinator with 10 years
- Naked mole-rat with 10 years
- Gray dorcopsis with 8 years
- Pudú with 10 years
- Black-tailed prairie dog with 8.5 years
- Tasmanian pademelon with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common kusimanse
What other animals weight around 1.39 kg (3.07 lbs)?
- Nabarlek usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Red giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.54 kgs (3.4 lbs)
- Black-footed cat usually reaching 1.36 kgs (3 lbs)
- Menzies’ echymipera usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Servaline genet usually reaching 1.24 kgs (2.73 lbs)
- Green ringtail possum usually reaching 1.15 kgs (2.54 lbs)
- European pine marten usually reaching 1.3 kgs (2.87 lbs)
- Malagasy giant rat usually reaching 1.18 kgs (2.6 lbs)
- Northern brown bandicoot usually reaching 1.51 kgs (3.33 lbs)
- Southern long-nosed armadillo usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Common kusimanse
Also reaching around 33.9 cm (1′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- African striped weasel gets as big as 30.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Arctic ground squirrel gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Meerkat gets as big as 28.6 cm (1′ 0″)
- Pousargues’s mongoose gets as big as 29 cm (1′ 0″)
- Eastern quoll gets as big as 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Northern sportive lemur gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine gets as big as 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- New England cottontail gets as big as 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Common degu gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)