How many baby Greater grisons are in a litter?
A Greater grison (Galictis vittata) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 20 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Galictis). An adult Greater grison grows up to a size of 25.7 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 greater grison (Galictis vittata), is a species of mustelid native to Southern Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
Greater grison is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- Steppe polecat with 9 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese ferret-badger with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Spotted-necked otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Giant otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- European pine marten with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Amazon weasel weighting only 268 grams
- Striped hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Steppe polecat with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Sea otter with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese marten weighting around 1 kilograms (2.2 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Greater grison
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Common blossom bat
- Bonnet macaque
- Southern dog-faced bat
- Dormer’s bat
- Rhesus macaque
- Antillean fruit-eating bat
- Bald uakari
- Hartebeest
- Cave nectar bat
Animals that get as old as a Greater grison
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5.25 years:
- Scaly-tailed possum with 6 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with 4.75 years
- Virginia opossum with 5 years
- Eastern mole with 6.17 years
- Slender mongoose with 6 years
- Cairo spiny mouse with 5 years
- Greater cane rat with 4.25 years
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with 5.17 years
- Hispid cotton rat with 5.17 years
- House mouse with 6 years
Animals with the same weight as a Greater grison
What other animals weight around 1.4 kg (3.08 lbs)?
- Southern long-nosed armadillo usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Southern viscacha usually reaching 1.54 kgs (3.4 lbs)
- Menzies’ echymipera usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Nabarlek usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Tufted ground squirrel usually reaching 1.35 kgs (2.98 lbs)
- Woodlark cuscus usually reaching 1.63 kgs (3.59 lbs)
- Hainan hare usually reaching 1.52 kgs (3.35 lbs)
- Eastern lowland olingo usually reaching 1.24 kgs (2.73 lbs)
- Philippine flying lemur usually reaching 1.25 kgs (2.76 lbs)
- Little Swan Island hutia usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Greater grison
Also reaching around 25.7 cm (0′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Magellanic tuco-tuco gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Arctic ground squirrel gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Numbat gets as big as 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- White-tailed antsangy gets as big as 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hammer-headed bat gets as big as 22.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mexican gray squirrel gets as big as 25.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- New Guinea waterside rat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Utah prairie dog gets as big as 28.8 cm (1′ 0″)
- Allen’s squirrel gets as big as 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Lowland ringtail possum gets as big as 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)