How many baby Greater hedgehog tenrecs are in a litter?
A Greater hedgehog tenrec (Setifer setosus) 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 57 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 24 grams (0.05 lbs) and measure 1.6 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Tenrecidae family (genus: Setifer). An adult Greater hedgehog tenrec grows up to a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 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 greater hedgehog tenrec (Setifer setosus), also known as the large Madagascar hedgehog or sokina, is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae. It is endemic to Madagascar. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, subtropical or tropical moist montane forest, dry savanna, moist savanna, subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, subtropical or tropical high-altitude grassland, rural gardens, urban areas and zoos.It is the only species in the genus Setifer. Despite the close resemblance, it is not closely related to hedgehogs.
Other animals of the family Tenrecidae
Greater hedgehog tenrec is a member of the Tenrecidae, as are these animals:
- Least shrew tenrec weighting only 3 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec weighting only 3 grams
- Taiva shrew tenrec weighting only 12 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec weighting only 4 grams
- Lowland streaked tenrec with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Web-footed tenrec with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Giant otter shrew with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec weighting only 18 grams
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec weighting only 12 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Greater hedgehog tenrec
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Black-tailed dasyure
- Damaraland mole-rat
- Red rock rat
- Red spiny rat
- Broad-striped dasyure
- Crosse’s shrew
- Hairy harvest mouse
- Dusky hopping mouse
- Blanford’s jerboa
- Neotropical otter
Animals that get as old as a Greater hedgehog tenrec
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10.5 years:
- Black-footed ferret with 12 years
- Maxwell’s duiker with 12.25 years
- Malagasy civet with 11 years
- Malayan civet with 12 years
- Hispaniolan solenodon with 11.33 years
- Common dwarf mongoose with 10.92 years
- Plantain squirrel with 9.58 years
- Meerkat with 12.5 years
- Grey rhebok with 12.25 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 9.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Greater hedgehog tenrec
What other animals weight around 277 grams (0.61 lbs)?
- Gray slender loris weighting 254 grams
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat weighting 251 grams
- Afghan pika weighting 250 grams
- Big-eared woodrat weighting 225 grams
- Grey-bellied squirrel weighting 265 grams
- Chinese zokor weighting 256 grams
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel weighting 250 grams
- Luzon broad-toothed rat weighting 268 grams
- Belding’s ground squirrel weighting 272 grams
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel weighting 241 grams
Animals with the same size as a Greater hedgehog tenrec
Also reaching around 18.5 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Dinagat gymnure gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Russian desman gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Attwater’s pocket gopher gets as big as 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pygmy marmoset gets as big as 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Panniet naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser small-toothed rat gets as big as 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bridges’s degu gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Vogelkop ringtail possum gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Common dwarf mongoose gets as big as 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)