How many baby Indian hedgehogs are in a litter?
A Indian hedgehog (Hemiechinus micropus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 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 5.5 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Erinaceidae family (genus: Hemiechinus). 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:
- Shrew gymnure with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Brandt’s hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Long-eared hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Shrew gymnure with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Indian hedgehog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Southern African hedgehog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Dinagat gymnure raching a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Daurian hedgehog raching a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Hainan gymnure weighting only 52 grams
- Short-tailed gymnure with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Indian hedgehog
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Banana climbing mouse
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat
- Himalayan striped squirrel
- Cape gray mongoose
- European hare
- Peters’s climbing rat
- Black-tailed mosaic-tailed rat
- Radde’s shrew
- African black shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Indian hedgehog
What other animals weight around 171 grams (0.38 lbs)?
- New Caledonia flying fox weighting 151 grams
- Indian gerbil weighting 138 grams
- Gray tree rat weighting 150 grams
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat weighting 175 grams
- Chacoan tuco-tuco weighting 166 grams
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat weighting 168 grams
- Greater Egyptian jerboa weighting 138 grams
- Mexican woodrat weighting 203 grams
- Holochilus brasiliensis weighting 155 grams
- Papuan bandicoot weighting 158 grams
Animals with the same size as a Indian hedgehog
Also reaching around 18 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Attwater’s pocket gopher gets as big as 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Least weasel gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec gets as big as 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Culion tree squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Tawitawi forest rat gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert hedgehog gets as big as 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bangs’s mountain squirrel gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Common gundi gets as big as 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- EspĂritu Santo antelope squirrel gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)