How many baby Golden-rumped elephant shrews are in a litter?
A Golden-rumped elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 42 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 80 grams (0.18 lbs) and measure 2.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Macroscelididae family (genus: Rhynchocyon). An adult Golden-rumped elephant shrew grows up to a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 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 golden-rumped elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon chrysopygus) is a small African mammal. It is the largest species of the elephant shrew family along with its close relative the grey-faced sengi. It is classified as endangered.
Other animals of the family Macroscelididae
Golden-rumped elephant shrew is a member of the Macroscelididae, as are these animals:
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bushveld elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Macroscelides proboscideus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western rock elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black and rufous elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rufous elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Somali elephant shrew weighting only 32 grams
- Checkered elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Golden-rumped elephant shrew
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Leschenault’s rousette
- Black-rumped agouti
- Telefomin cuscus
- Mule deer
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat
- Blue duiker
- Mountain nyala
- Red-tailed squirrel
- Aba roundleaf bat
Animals that get as old as a Golden-rumped elephant shrew
Other animals that usually reach the age of 4 years:
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with 4.67 years
- Great gerbil with 4 years
- Sminthopsis laniger with 3.25 years
- Steppe pika with 4 years
- Fat-tailed dunnart with 4.25 years
- Acacia rat with 3.5 years
- Northern pygmy mouse with 3.25 years
- Lesser mole-rat with 4.5 years
- Woodland jumping mouse with 4 years
- Kultarr with 3.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Golden-rumped elephant shrew
What other animals weight around 535 grams (1.18 lbs)?
- Superagüi lion tamarin weighting 605 grams
- Hispid pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- White-footed sportive lemur weighting 600 grams
- Gray-backed sportive lemur weighting 506 grams
- Desert bandicoot weighting 499 grams
- Cotton-top tamarin weighting 463 grams
- Big pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- Small flying fox weighting 434 grams
- Siberian weasel weighting 531 grams
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat weighting 439 grams
Animals with the same size as a Golden-rumped elephant shrew
Also reaching around 27.3 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur gets as big as 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Grey-headed flying fox gets as big as 27.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 28.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Golden bamboo lemur gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Florida naked-tailed rat gets as big as 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Oncilla gets as big as 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Red-legged sun squirrel gets as big as 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Allen’s woodrat gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Red slender loris gets as big as 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Podogymnura truei gets as big as 31.3 cm (1′ 1″)