How many baby Coypus are in a litter?
A Coypu (Myocastor coypus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 10 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 132 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 206 grams (0.45 lbs) and measure 5 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Myocastoridae family (genus: Myocastor). An adult Coypu grows up to a size of 52.1 cm (1′ 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 coypu (from Spanish coipú, from Mapudungun koypu; Myocastor coypus), also known as the nutria, is a large, herbivorous, semiaquatic rodent.Classified for a long time as the only member of the family Myocastoridae, Myocastor is now included within Echimyidae, the family of the spiny rats.The coypu lives in burrows alongside stretches of water, and feeds on river plant stems. Originally native to subtropical and temperate South America, it has since been introduced to North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, primarily by fur farmers. Although it is still hunted and trapped for its fur in some regions, its destructive burrowing and feeding habits often bring it into conflict with humans, and it is considered an invasive species.
Animals that share a litter size with Coypu
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Western quoll
- Grey red-backed vole
- Dusky slender opossum
- Red wolf
- Fringe-tailed gerbil
- Kowari
- Cape mole-rat
- Pacific jumping mouse
- Daurian pika
- Kultarr
Animals that get as old as a Coypu
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Bat-eared fox with 13.75 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
- Pudú with 12.5 years
- Crab-eating fox with 11.5 years
- Eastern spotted skunk with 10 years
- Central American agouti with 10 years
- Royal antelope with 14 years
- Boodie with 10 years
- Blanford’s fox with 10 years
- Common spotted cuscus with 11 years
Animals with the same weight as a Coypu
What other animals weight around 6.36 kg (14.02 lbs)?
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon usually reaching 7.32 kgs (16.14 lbs)
- Rhesus macaque usually reaching 6.45 kgs (14.22 lbs)
- Raccoon usually reaching 6.37 kgs (14.04 lbs)
- Hoolock gibbon usually reaching 6.7 kgs (14.77 lbs)
- Black howler usually reaching 5.58 kgs (12.3 lbs)
- Grey-cheeked mangabey usually reaching 7.39 kgs (16.29 lbs)
- Tibetan sand fox usually reaching 5.54 kgs (12.21 lbs)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon usually reaching 7.32 kgs (16.14 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur usually reaching 7.39 kgs (16.29 lbs)
- Bobcat usually reaching 6.38 kgs (14.07 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Coypu
Also reaching around 52.1 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Red-eared guenon gets as big as 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Menzbier’s marmot gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Pig-tailed langur gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Formosan rock macaque gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Crested mona monkey gets as big as 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Tiger quoll gets as big as 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Spotted-necked otter gets as big as 59.7 cm (2′ 0″)
- Suni gets as big as 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- African palm civet gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Pallas’s cat gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)