How many baby Crab-eating mongooses are in a litter?
A Crab-eating mongoose (Herpestes urva) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 65 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 24 grams (0.05 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Herpestidae family (genus: Herpestes). An adult Crab-eating mongoose grows up to a size of 50.8 cm (1′ 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 crab-eating mongoose (Herpestes urva) is a mongoose species ranging from the northeastern Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to southern China and Taiwan. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Other animals of the family Herpestidae
Crab-eating mongoose is a member of the Herpestidae, as are these animals:
- Grandidier’s mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bushy-tailed mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Jackson’s mongoose weighting around 2.5 kilograms (5.51 lbs)
- Banded mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pousargues’s mongoose with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Meerkat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Marsh mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Gambian mongoose weighting around 1.64 kilograms (3.62 lbs)
- Stripe-necked mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Crab-eating mongoose
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel
- Kemp’s gerbil
- Delectable soft-furred mouse
- Dwarf fat-tailed jerboa
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil
- Desert hedgehog
- Great jerboa
- Brush mouse
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse
Animals that get as old as a Crab-eating mongoose
Other animals that usually reach the age of 13.33 years:
- Harbour porpoise with 15 years
- Tricolored bat with 15 years
- Rhim gazelle with 14 years
- Suni with 14 years
- Equatorial saki with 14.83 years
- Long-tailed chinchilla with 11.25 years
- Dhole with 16 years
- Quokka with 12 years
- Black-backed jackal with 14 years
- Short-eared dog with 11 years
Animals with the same weight as a Crab-eating mongoose
What other animals weight around 2.38 kg (5.25 lbs)?
- Marbled cat usually reaching 2.83 kgs (6.24 lbs)
- Corsac fox usually reaching 2.62 kgs (5.78 lbs)
- Dusky pademelon usually reaching 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
- African palm civet usually reaching 2.17 kgs (4.78 lbs)
- Kinkajou usually reaching 2.45 kgs (5.4 lbs)
- Sand cat usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
- Jackson’s mongoose usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Large bamboo rat usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Mexican cottontail usually reaching 2.49 kgs (5.49 lbs)
- Pale fox usually reaching 2.8 kgs (6.17 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Crab-eating mongoose
Also reaching around 50.8 cm (1′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Pallas’s cat gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Yellow-throated marten gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Monk saki gets as big as 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Common brown lemur gets as big as 46.3 cm (1′ 7″)
- Long-tailed porcupine gets as big as 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Asian small-clawed otter gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Müeller’s gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Blanford’s fox gets as big as 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Red lemur gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)