How many baby Desert warthogs are in a litter?
A Desert warthog (Phacochoerus 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 165 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 691 grams (1.52 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Suidae family (genus: Phacochoerus). An adult Desert warthog grows up to a size of 100 cm (3′ 4″).
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 warthog (Phacochoerus aethiopicus) is a species of even-toed ungulate in the pig family (Suidae), found in northern Kenya and Somalia, and possibly Djibouti, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. This is the range of the extant subspecies, commonly known as the Somali warthog (P. a. delamerei). Another subspecies, commonly known as the Cape warthog (P. a. aethiopicus), became extinct around 1865, but formerly occurred in South Africa.
Other animals of the family Suidae
Desert warthog is a member of the Suidae, as are these animals:
- Buru babirusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Celebes warty pig with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Common warthog becoming 15 years old
- Red river hog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Wild boar with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Javan warty pig with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Bushpig with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan warty pig with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Giant forest hog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy hog with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Desert warthog
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- True’s shrew mole
- Arizona gray squirrel
- Crawford’s gray shrew
- Taiwan field mouse
- Brush mouse
- Swamp rabbit
- Juniper vole
- Thick-tailed three-toed jerboa
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
- Red spiny rat
Animals that get as old as a Desert warthog
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18.75 years:
- Red forest duiker with 15 years
- Nabarlek with 17 years
- Bahamian raccoon with 21 years
- Common tsessebe with 18 years
- Dama gazelle with 17.25 years
- Roan antelope with 20 years
- Dama gazelle with 17.25 years
- Dorcas gazelle with 17.42 years
- Brown hyena with 17 years
- Japanese serow with 18.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Desert warthog
What other animals weight around 75.61 kg (166.68 lbs)?
- Chital usually reaching 69.5 kgs (153.22 lbs)
- Caspian seal usually reaching 62.33 kgs (137.41 lbs)
- Baikal seal usually reaching 89.5 kgs (197.31 lbs)
- Javan warty pig usually reaching 89.2 kgs (196.65 lbs)
- Kob usually reaching 79.77 kgs (175.86 lbs)
- Alpine ibex usually reaching 69.42 kgs (153.04 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin usually reaching 75.99 kgs (167.53 lbs)
- Alpaca usually reaching 64.9 kgs (143.08 lbs)
- Red river hog usually reaching 70 kgs (154.32 lbs)
- Nile lechwe usually reaching 85.5 kgs (188.5 lbs)