How many baby Desert hedgehogs are in a litter?
A Desert hedgehog (Paraechinus 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 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Erinaceidae family (genus: Paraechinus). 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:
- Shrew gymnure with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Southern white-breasted hedgehog with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Brandt’s hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Shrew gymnure with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Four-toed hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Indian long-eared hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Moonrat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hainan gymnure weighting only 52 grams
- Indian hedgehog with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hugh’s hedgehog raching a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals that share a litter size with Desert hedgehog
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Amazonian marsh rat
- Peruvian tuco-tuco
- Pyrenean desman
- Gray climbing mouse
- Hog badger
- Juniper vole
- Fisher (animal)
- Pampas fox
- Père David’s mole
- Raccoon
Animals that get as old as a Desert hedgehog
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4.5 years:
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with 4.25 years
- Silky pocket mouse with 5 years
- Derby’s woolly opossum with 5 years
- Rufous horseshoe bat with 5 years
- Gray tree rat with 3.75 years
- Uinta ground squirrel with 5 years
- Great gerbil with 4 years
- Bank vole with 4.83 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with 4.75 years
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with 4 years
Animals with the same weight as a Desert hedgehog
What other animals weight around 352 grams (0.78 lbs)?
- Eastern small-toothed rat weighting 357 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat weighting 296 grams
- Pteropus gilliardi weighting 403 grams
- Buffy-tufted marmoset weighting 387 grams
- Gray-footed spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Peruvian tree-rat weighting 315 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 403 grams
- Brown rat weighting 282 grams
- Brown-mantled tamarin weighting 393 grams
- Golden-mantled tamarin weighting 385 grams
Animals with the same size as a Desert hedgehog
Also reaching around 18.1 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Northeast African mole-rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ontong Java flying fox gets as big as 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-tailed mountain rat gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dusky field rat gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tsing-ling pika gets as big as 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sonoran woodrat gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Dinagat gymnure gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Espíritu Santo antelope squirrel gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Island mouse gets as big as 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)