How many baby Desmarest’s hutias are in a litter?
A Desmarest’s hutia (Capromys pilorides) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 125 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 199 grams (0.44 lbs) and measure 37.5 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Capromyidae family (genus: Capromys). An adult Desmarest’s hutia grows up to a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″).
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 Desmarest’s hutia (Capromys pilorides), also known as the Cuban hutia, is a species of rodent endemic to Cuba, although an extinct subspecies is known from the Cayman Islands. Weighing up to 8.5 kg (19 lb), it is the largest of the extant species of hutia (the extinct giant hutias were far larger).
Other animals of the family Capromyidae
Desmarest’s hutia is a member of the Capromyidae, as are these animals:
- Prehensile-tailed hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Little Swan Island hutia weighting around 1.5 kilograms (3.31 lbs)
- Black-tailed hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hispaniolan hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bahamian hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eared hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Jamaican coney with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Desmarest’s hutia
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Chestnut tree mouse
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec
- Honey badger
- African black shrew
- Binturong
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat
- Ord’s kangaroo rat
- Somali serotine
- Northern yellow bat
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat
Animals that get as old as a Desmarest’s hutia
Other animals that usually reach the age of 11.33 years:
- Cape ground squirrel with 13 years
- Small Indian civet with 10.5 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with 10 years
- Java mouse-deer with 12 years
- Long-tailed chinchilla with 11.25 years
- Maned sloth with 12 years
- Water deer with 12 years
- Gerenuk with 13 years
- Striped polecat with 13.33 years
- Meerkat with 12.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Desmarest’s hutia
What other animals weight around 5.2 kg (11.46 lbs)?
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth usually reaching 5.7 kgs (12.57 lbs)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey usually reaching 5.26 kgs (11.6 lbs)
- White-fronted surili usually reaching 6.12 kgs (13.49 lbs)
- Brown dorcopsis usually reaching 5.39 kgs (11.88 lbs)
- Bonnet macaque usually reaching 5 kgs (11.02 lbs)
- Pale-throated sloth usually reaching 4.33 kgs (9.55 lbs)
- Hoary fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Alaskan hare usually reaching 4.85 kgs (10.69 lbs)
- Pampas cat usually reaching 4.4 kgs (9.7 lbs)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 4.95 kgs (10.91 lbs)