How many baby Hispaniolan solenodons are in a litter?
A Hispaniolan solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 64 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 90 grams (0.2 lbs) and measure 2.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Solenodontidae family (genus: Solenodon). An adult Hispaniolan solenodon grows up to a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″).
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 solenodon (Solenodon paradoxus), also known as the Haitian solenodon, or agouta, is a solenodon found only on Hispaniola, the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. It was first described by Brandt in 1833. A similar but smaller species, Marcano’s solenodon (S. marcanoi), once lived on the island, but became extinct after European colonization.
Other animals of the family Solenodontidae
Hispaniolan solenodon is a member of the Solenodontidae, as are these animals:
- Cuban solenodon with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Hispaniolan solenodon
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- White-beaked dolphin
- Unadorned rock-wallaby
- Earless water rat
- Common wombat
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat
- California mouse
- Sun bear
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Short-beaked echidna
- Long-footed treeshrew
Animals that get as old as a Hispaniolan solenodon
Other animals that usually reach the age of 11.33 years:
- Southern tree hyrax with 12.25 years
- Common treeshrew with 12.42 years
- Long-nosed potoroo with 12 years
- Pacarana with 9.33 years
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with 10.42 years
- Meerkat with 12.5 years
- Long-footed potoroo with 10 years
- Whiskered bat with 9.25 years
- Heterohyrax antineae with 12 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Hispaniolan solenodon
What other animals weight around 893 grams (1.97 lbs)?
- Desert rat-kangaroo weighting 929 grams
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupine weighting 736 grams
- Eastern white-eared giant rat weighting 867 grams
- Tres Marias rabbit weighting 964 grams
- Black-capped squirrel monkey weighting 802 grams
- Yellow-throated squirrel weighting 803 grams
- Black-bearded flying fox weighting 872 grams
- Gray-bellied night monkey weighting 800 grams
- Rio Mayo titi weighting 992 grams
- Ashy black titi weighting 992 grams
Animals with the same size as a Hispaniolan solenodon
Also reaching around 30.6 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- American mink gets as big as 36.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Goeldi’s marmoset gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- White-faced spiny tree-rat gets as big as 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-bearded flying fox gets as big as 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel gets as big as 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Sunda slow loris gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Podogymnura truei gets as big as 31.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Mountain cottontail gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Baja California rock squirrel gets as big as 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Volcano rabbit gets as big as 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)