How many baby Crested servaline genets are in a litter?
A Crested servaline genet (Genetta cristata) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Genetta). An adult Crested servaline genet grows up to a size of 51.5 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 servaline genet (Genetta cristata), also known as the crested genet, is a genet species endemic to Nigeria and Cameroon. As the population has declined due to loss of habitat, it is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. It was first recorded in the Mamfe Division in Cameroon and initially considered a subspecies of the servaline genet (Genetta servalina). But now it is regarded as a distinct species.
Other animals of the family Viverridae
Crested servaline genet is a member of the Viverridae, as are these animals:
- Large-spotted civet weighting around 4.53 kilograms (9.99 lbs)
- African palm civet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Johnston’s genet weighting around 2.23 kilograms (4.92 lbs)
- Sulawesi palm civet weighting around 5.15 kilograms (11.35 lbs)
- Large Indian civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern falanouc with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Small-toothed palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Servaline genet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- African civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Crested servaline genet
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Bushy-tailed jird
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew
- Bottego’s shrew
- Mountain beaver
- Asian particolored bat
- Gray tree rat
- Meller’s mongoose
- Large Indian civet
- Long-tailed mouse
- Golden-backed tree-rat
Animals that get as old as a Crested servaline genet
Other animals that usually reach the age of 34 years:
- Rodrigues flying fox with 30 years
- Narwhal with 40 years
- Bobcat with 32.33 years
- Walrus with 40 years
- Spotted seal with 35.5 years
- Collared mangabey with 30 years
- Cuvier’s beaked whale with 36 years
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth with 27.75 years
- Bonnet macaque with 30 years
- Red kangaroo with 30 years
Animals with the same weight as a Crested servaline genet
What other animals weight around 1.86 kg (4.11 lbs)?
- Malagasy civet usually reaching 1.86 kgs (4.1 lbs)
- Nilgiri marten usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
- Island fox usually reaching 1.92 kgs (4.23 lbs)
- Chinese hare usually reaching 1.61 kgs (3.55 lbs)
- Abyssinian hare usually reaching 2.02 kgs (4.45 lbs)
- Tolai hare usually reaching 1.59 kgs (3.51 lbs)
- Beech marten usually reaching 1.67 kgs (3.68 lbs)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Black giant squirrel usually reaching 1.61 kgs (3.55 lbs)
- Aquatic genet usually reaching 1.65 kgs (3.64 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Crested servaline genet
Also reaching around 51.5 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Pennant’s colobus gets as big as 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Sunda stink badger gets as big as 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Island fox gets as big as 47.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Red-eared guenon gets as big as 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Maroon leaf monkey gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Black crested gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bay cat gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Assam macaque gets as big as 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Indian pangolin gets as big as 54.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo gets as big as 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)