How many baby Egyptian mongooses are in a litter?
A Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon) 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 76 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2.7 kg (5.95 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Herpestidae family (genus: Herpestes). An adult Egyptian mongoose grows up to a size of 57.5 cm (1′ 11″).
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 Egyptian mongoose (Herpestes ichneumon), also known as ichneumon, is a mongoose species native to the Iberian Peninsula, coastal regions along the Mediterranean Sea between North Africa and Turkey, tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands in Africa. Because of its widespread occurrence, it is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Other animals of the family Herpestidae
Egyptian mongoose is a member of the Herpestidae, as are these animals:
- Angolan slender mongoose weighting only 750 grams
- Selous’s mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Stripe-necked mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Cape gray mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pousargues’s mongoose with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Namaqua slender mongoose weighting only 750 grams
- Narrow-striped mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Alexander’s kusimanse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Javan mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bengal mongoose weighting only 741 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Egyptian mongoose
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Capybara
- Oligoryzomys nigripes
- Palmer’s chipmunk
- Water deer
- European pine marten
- Flat-headed shrew
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse
- Plains pocket gopher
- Hoary fox
- Fulvous harvest mouse
Animals that get as old as a Egyptian mongoose
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20 years:
- Striped hyena with 24 years
- Domestic yak with 22.25 years
- Eastern gray squirrel with 24 years
- Red goral with 18.25 years
- Indian hog deer with 20 years
- Goat with 20.75 years
- Thorold’s deer with 18 years
- Short-beaked common dolphin with 20 years
- Snow leopard with 18 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with 21.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Egyptian mongoose
What other animals weight around 3 kg (6.6 lbs)?
- Rüppell’s fox usually reaching 3.25 kgs (7.17 lbs)
- White-tailed jackrabbit usually reaching 3.38 kgs (7.45 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 3.37 kgs (7.43 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 2.58 kgs (5.69 lbs)
- Japanese hare usually reaching 2.53 kgs (5.58 lbs)
- Kaapori capuchin usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Booted macaque usually reaching 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Kalinowski’s agouti usually reaching 2.65 kgs (5.84 lbs)
- Bunyoro rabbit usually reaching 2.51 kgs (5.53 lbs)
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax usually reaching 2.45 kgs (5.4 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Egyptian mongoose
Also reaching around 57.5 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Leopard cat gets as big as 68.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Black howler gets as big as 55.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Wolf’s mona monkey gets as big as 48 cm (1′ 7″)
- Pallas’s cat gets as big as 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Sunda pangolin gets as big as 59 cm (2′ 0″)
- Malayan porcupine gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Kloss’s gibbon gets as big as 51.2 cm (1′ 9″)
- Brown howler gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pygmy hog gets as big as 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)