How many baby Crested porcupines are in a litter?
A Crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 79 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 341 grams (0.75 lbs) and measure 15.1 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Hystricidae family (genus: Hystrix). An adult Crested porcupine grows up to a size of 52.8 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 crested porcupine (Hystrix cristata) also known as the African crested porcupine, is a species of rodent in the family Hystricidae found in Italy, North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Other animals of the family Hystricidae
Crested porcupine is a member of the Hystricidae, as are these animals:
- African brush-tailed porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Malayan porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thick-spined porcupine weighting around 4.59 kilograms (10.12 lbs)
- Long-tailed porcupine becoming 10.08 years old
- Cape porcupine with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine porcupine becoming 9.5 years old
- Indian crested porcupine with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Crested porcupine
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
- Red panda
- Manchurian hare
- Common yellow-toothed cavy
- Yellow mongoose
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec
- Collared tuco-tuco
- Greenish yellow bat
- Low’s squirrel
- Eastern harvest mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Crested porcupine
What other animals weight around 13.4 kg (29.55 lbs)?
- Coyote usually reaching 12 kgs (26.46 lbs)
- Proboscis monkey usually reaching 12.28 kgs (27.07 lbs)
- Black-striped wallaby usually reaching 11.23 kgs (24.76 lbs)
- Northern plains gray langur usually reaching 12.64 kgs (27.87 lbs)
- Black musk deer usually reaching 13.6 kgs (29.98 lbs)
- Wolverine usually reaching 12.8 kgs (28.22 lbs)
- Harvey’s duiker usually reaching 14.5 kgs (31.97 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 12.27 kgs (27.05 lbs)
- Indian crested porcupine usually reaching 14.3 kgs (31.53 lbs)
- Dwarf musk deer usually reaching 12.39 kgs (27.32 lbs)