How many baby Indian pangolins are in a litter?
A Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 67 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 311 grams (0.69 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Manidae family (genus: Manis). An adult Indian pangolin grows up to a size of 54.3 cm (1′ 10″).
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 pangolin (Manis crassicaudata), also called thick-tailed pangolin and scaly anteater is a pangolin native to the Indian subcontinent.Like other pangolins, it has large, overlapping scales on its body which act as armour. It can also curl itself into a ball (volvation) as self-defence against predators such as the tiger. The colour of its scales varies depending on the colour of the earth in its surroundings.It is an insectivore, feeding on ants and termites, digging them out of mounds and logs using its long claws, which are as long as its fore limbs. It is nocturnal and rests in deep burrows during the day.It is not common anywhere in its range, and is threatened by hunting for its meat and for various body parts used in traditional medicine.
Other animals of the family Manidae
Indian pangolin is a member of the Manidae, as are these animals:
- Ground pangolin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant pangolin weighting around 33 kilograms (72.75 lbs)
- Tree pangolin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed pangolin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese pangolin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sunda pangolin with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Indian pangolin
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Insular flying fox
- Scimitar oryx
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Hottentot golden mole
- Red-eared guenon
- Smaller horseshoe bat
- Indian flying fox
- Irrawaddy dolphin
- Rothschild’s woolly rat
Animals that get as old as a Indian pangolin
Other animals that usually reach the age of 13.5 years:
- Grant’s gazelle with 12.67 years
- Common warthog with 15 years
- Brown mouse lemur with 12 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- Nine-banded armadillo with 15 years
- Rock hyrax with 14 years
- Common duiker with 14.25 years
- Common bent-wing bat with 14 years
- Leadbeater’s possum with 11 years
- Heterohyrax antineae with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Indian pangolin
What other animals weight around 8.02 kg (17.68 lbs)?
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 9.12 kgs (20.11 lbs)
- Diademed sifaka usually reaching 6.58 kgs (14.51 lbs)
- Rhesus macaque usually reaching 6.45 kgs (14.22 lbs)
- Aardwolf usually reaching 8.29 kgs (18.28 lbs)
- Mentawai langur usually reaching 6.45 kgs (14.22 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker usually reaching 8.44 kgs (18.61 lbs)
- Jaguarundi usually reaching 6.88 kgs (15.17 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 9.09 kgs (20.04 lbs)
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey usually reaching 7.6 kgs (16.76 lbs)
- Celebes crested macaque usually reaching 7.37 kgs (16.25 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Indian pangolin
Also reaching around 54.3 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Rock hyrax gets as big as 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Black-tailed jackrabbit gets as big as 48.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Brazilian porcupine gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- François’ langur gets as big as 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Black howler gets as big as 55.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Stump-tailed macaque gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Pileated gibbon gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Western red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Black dorcopsis gets as big as 59.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Island fox gets as big as 47.2 cm (1′ 7″)