How many baby Desert hedgehogs are in a litter?
A Desert hedgehog (Hemiechinus aethiopicus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 36 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 3.1 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Erinaceidae family (genus: Hemiechinus). An adult Desert hedgehog grows up to a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 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 desert hedgehog (Paraechinus aethiopicus) is a species of mammal in the family Erinaceidae.
Other animals of the family Erinaceidae
Desert hedgehog is a member of the Erinaceidae, as are these animals:
- European hedgehog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Brandt’s hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Amur hedgehog raching a size of 24.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Daurian hedgehog raching a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Indian long-eared hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Short-tailed gymnure with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Brandt’s hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Indian hedgehog with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hainan gymnure weighting only 52 grams
- Podogymnura truei raching a size of 31.3 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals that share a litter size with Desert hedgehog
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Emin’s gerbil
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse
- Swamp rabbit
- Short-nosed harvest mouse
- Namaqua rock rat
- Eastern pygmy possum
- Kaiser’s rock rat
- Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse
- Nagtglas’s African dormouse
- Broad-footed mole
Animals that get as old as a Desert hedgehog
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4.5 years:
- Spinifex hopping mouse with 5.17 years
- Southern long-nosed bat with 5 years
- Northern birch mouse with 4 years
- Hispid cotton rat with 5.17 years
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with 4.25 years
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with 5.17 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with 4.75 years
- Meadow jumping mouse with 5 years
- Little free-tailed bat with 5 years
- Wood mouse with 4.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Desert hedgehog
What other animals weight around 396 grams (0.87 lbs)?
- Golden bandicoot weighting 425 grams
- Derby’s woolly opossum weighting 328 grams
- Mexican gray squirrel weighting 456 grams
- Montane bamboo rat weighting 382 grams
- Masoala fork-marked lemur weighting 409 grams
- King rat (animal) weighting 420 grams
- Michoacan pocket gopher weighting 474 grams
- Merriam’s pocket gopher weighting 419 grams
- Striped possum weighting 413 grams
- Long-tailed giant rat weighting 349 grams
Animals with the same size as a Desert hedgehog
Also reaching around 18.1 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Barbary ground squirrel gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Allen’s chipmunk gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Least weasel gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern mountain cavy gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Fly River water rat gets as big as 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stephen’s woodrat gets as big as 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sulawesi flying fox gets as big as 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel gets as big as 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)