How many baby Giant forest hogs are in a litter?
A Giant forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 151 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 517 grams (1.14 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Suidae family (genus: Hylochoerus). An adult Giant forest hog grows up to a size of 2.03 meter (6′ 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 giant forest hog (Hylochoerus meinertzhageni), the only member of its genus, is native to wooded habitats in Africa and is generally considered the largest wild member of the pig family, Suidae; however, a few subspecies of the wild boar can reach an even larger size. Despite its large size and relatively wide distribution, it was first described only in 1904. The specific name honours Richard Meinertzhagen, who shot the type specimen in Kenya and had it shipped to the Natural History Museum in England.
Other animals of the family Suidae
Giant forest hog is a member of the Suidae, as are these animals:
- Bushpig with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Celebes warty pig with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Javan warty pig with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Buru babirusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan warty pig with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Common warthog becoming 15 years old
- Bornean bearded pig with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Philippine warty pig with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Desert warthog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy hog with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Giant forest hog
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Tropical pocket gopher
- Red fox
- Steppe lemming
- Ethiopian white-footed mouse
- California pocket mouse
- Botta’s pocket gopher
- Northern collared lemming
- Northern pocket gopher
- Pygmy gerbil
- Spermophilus relictus
Animals that get as old as a Giant forest hog
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18 years:
- Ocelot with 20.25 years
- Impala with 17.75 years
- Red wolf with 20 years
- Raccoon with 20.83 years
- Lowland paca with 16 years
- European pine marten with 17 years
- Silvery marmoset with 16.75 years
- Wild boar with 21 years
- Mountain goat with 19.17 years
- California myotis with 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a Giant forest hog
What other animals weight around 196.57 kg (433.35 lbs)?
- Brown bear usually reaching 196.14 kgs (432.41 lbs)
- Asinus usually reaching 172.5 kgs (380.3 lbs)
- Fraser’s dolphin usually reaching 164 kgs (361.56 lbs)
- Lion usually reaching 158.75 kgs (349.98 lbs)
- Tiger usually reaching 162.28 kgs (357.77 lbs)
- Crabeater seal usually reaching 225 kgs (496.04 lbs)
- Brown fur seal usually reaching 178.75 kgs (394.08 lbs)
- Sable antelope usually reaching 235.2 kgs (518.53 lbs)
- Blue wildebeest usually reaching 197.31 kgs (434.99 lbs)
- Onager usually reaching 235.62 kgs (519.45 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Giant forest hog
Also reaching around 2.03 meter (6′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Juan Fernández fur seal gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Eld’s deer gets as big as 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- New Zealand sea lion gets as big as 2.02 meter (6′ 8″)
- Kouprey gets as big as 2.18 meter (7′ 2″)
- Alpaca gets as big as 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Dall’s porpoise gets as big as 1.97 meter (6′ 6″)
- South American sea lion gets as big as 2.12 meter (7′ 0″)
- Harp seal gets as big as 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Onager gets as big as 2.25 meter (7′ 5″)
- Javan rusa gets as big as 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)