How many baby Cuban solenodons are in a litter?
A Cuban solenodon (Solenodon cubanus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Solenodontidae family (genus: Solenodon). An adult Cuban solenodon grows up to a size of 34.9 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 Cuban solenodon or almiqui (Solenodon cubanus), is a species of eulipotyphlan endemic to Cuba. It belongs to the family Solenodontidae along with a similar species, the Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus). The solenodon is unusual among mammals in that its saliva is venomous.
Other animals of the family Solenodontidae
Cuban solenodon is a member of the Solenodontidae, as are these animals:
- Hispaniolan solenodon with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Cuban solenodon
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Fire-bellied brush-furred rat
- Black-winged little yellow bat
- Ursine tree-kangaroo
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo
- South American fur seal
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat
- Scrub hare
- Dusky leaf monkey
- Tufted pygmy squirrel
- Macleay’s dorcopsis
Animals that get as old as a Cuban solenodon
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6.5 years:
- Musky rat-kangaroo with 6 years
- Mexican mouse opossum with 7 years
- Arctic hare with 7 years
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec with 5.58 years
- Central African oyan with 5.33 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with 6 years
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel with 7.08 years
- Canyon bat with 6 years
- Eastern mole with 6.17 years
- North African hedgehog with 7 years
Animals with the same weight as a Cuban solenodon
What other animals weight around 806 grams (1.78 lbs)?
- Bahamian hutia weighting 912 grams
- Northern Amazon red squirrel weighting 700 grams
- Western white-eared giant rat weighting 932 grams
- Black lion tamarin weighting 656 grams
- New England cottontail weighting 814 grams
- Hispaniolan solenodon weighting 893 grams
- Red-bellied titi weighting 962 grams
- European hedgehog weighting 789 grams
- Eastern white-eared giant rat weighting 867 grams
- Swynnerton’s bush squirrel weighting 675 grams
Animals with the same size as a Cuban solenodon
Also reaching around 34.9 cm (1′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Goeldi’s marmoset gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Marsh rabbit gets as big as 40.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 28.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Bahamian hutia gets as big as 39.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Back-striped weasel gets as big as 28.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey gets as big as 41 cm (1′ 5″)
- Long-tailed porcupine gets as big as 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Mexican prairie dog gets as big as 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Water opossum gets as big as 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)