How many baby Hispaniolan hutias are in a litter?
A Hispaniolan hutia (Plagiodontia aedium) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 136 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 105 grams (0.23 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Capromyidae family (genus: Plagiodontia). An adult Hispaniolan hutia grows up to a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″).
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 Hispaniolan hutia (Plagiodontia aedium) is one of several hutia (also called zagouti, and jutÃa in Spanish) species to have inhabited at some time the island of Hispaniola (island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic). P. aedium is the only scientifically confirmed extant species of the genus Plagiodontia; other species are either extinct or being debatedly catalogued as P. aedium subspecies. The name Plagiodontia means “oblique tooth” in Greek.
Other animals of the family Capromyidae
Hispaniolan hutia is a member of the Capromyidae, as are these animals:
- Dwarf hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Prehensile-tailed hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eared hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Desmarest’s hutia with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Little Swan Island hutia weighting around 1.5 kilograms (3.31 lbs)
- Black-tailed hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Jamaican coney with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bahamian hutia with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hispaniolan hutia
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- De Brazza’s monkey
- Darling’s horseshoe bat
- Pagai Island macaque
- Mentawai langur
- Eastern grey kangaroo
- Long-tailed fruit bat
- Southern pig-tailed macaque
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Daubenton’s bat
- Woodlark cuscus
Animals that get as old as a Hispaniolan hutia
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9.83 years:
- Plains viscacha with 9.33 years
- Long-tailed chinchilla with 11.25 years
- Mindanao treeshrew with 11.5 years
- Fishing cat with 10 years
- Muskrat with 10 years
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with 10.42 years
- African clawless otter with 11 years
- Common ringtail possum with 8 years
- Congo rope squirrel with 9.5 years
- White-tailed jackrabbit with 8 years
Animals with the same weight as a Hispaniolan hutia
What other animals weight around 1.27 kg (2.8 lbs)?
- Big-eared opossum usually reaching 1.11 kgs (2.45 lbs)
- Rufous hare-wallaby usually reaching 1.41 kgs (3.11 lbs)
- Oncilla usually reaching 1.11 kgs (2.45 lbs)
- Black jackrabbit usually reaching 1.27 kgs (2.8 lbs)
- Short-tailed mongoose usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Black-headed night monkey usually reaching 1.06 kgs (2.34 lbs)
- Long-nosed potoroo usually reaching 1.07 kgs (2.36 lbs)
- Menzies’ echymipera usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 1.49 kgs (3.28 lbs)
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel usually reaching 1.16 kgs (2.56 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Hispaniolan hutia
Also reaching around 30 cm (1′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Muskrat gets as big as 27.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Calabar angwantibo gets as big as 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Hamlyn’s monkey gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- King rat (animal) gets as big as 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- Brown-tailed mongoose gets as big as 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-capped squirrel monkey gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Moonrat gets as big as 32.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Variegated squirrel gets as big as 26.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Red-handed tamarin gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)