How many baby Indian hedgehogs are in a litter?
A Indian hedgehog (Paraechinus micropus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 37 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Erinaceidae family (genus: Paraechinus). An adult Indian hedgehog grows up to a size of 18 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 Indian hedgehog (Paraechinus micropus) is a species of hedgehog native to India and Pakistan. It mainly lives in sandy desert areas but can be found in other environments.
Other animals of the family Erinaceidae
Indian hedgehog is a member of the Erinaceidae, as are these animals:
- European hedgehog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Brandt’s hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Indian hedgehog with 2 babies per pregnancy
- North African hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Hugh’s hedgehog raching a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Indian long-eared hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Four-toed hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Short-tailed gymnure with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Somali hedgehog raching a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals that share a litter size with Indian hedgehog
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Typical striped grass mouse
- Pygmy spotted skunk
- Hoary marmot
- Beaded wood mouse
- White-footed mouse
- Yellow-bellied marmot
- Gray four-eyed opossum
- Smoke-bellied rat
- Libyan jird
- Atherton antechinus
Animals with the same weight as a Indian hedgehog
What other animals weight around 171 grams (0.38 lbs)?
- Short-furred dasyure weighting 161 grams
- Mountain spiny rat weighting 159 grams
- Manus Island mosaic-tailed rat weighting 144 grams
- Maxomys baeodon weighting 159 grams
- Red spiny rat weighting 150 grams
- Bryant’s woodrat weighting 182 grams
- Knox Jones’s pocket gopher weighting 172 grams
- Striped treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Steppe pika weighting 143 grams
- Cape mole-rat weighting 189 grams
Animals with the same size as a Indian hedgehog
Also reaching around 18 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Northern quoll gets as big as 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Goldman’s woodrat gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Samar squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Gray short-tailed opossum gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Edible dormouse gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pygmy marmoset gets as big as 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Townsend’s pocket gopher gets as big as 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Short-furred dasyure gets as big as 18 cm (0′ 8″)