How many baby Large Indian civets are in a litter?
A Large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 80 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6.09 kg (13.42 lbs) and measure 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Viverra). An adult Large Indian civet grows up to a size of 81.9 cm (2′ 9″).
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 large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha) is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. The global population is considered decreasing mainly because of trapping-driven declines in heavily hunted and fragmented areas, notably in China, and the heavy trade as wild meat.
Other animals of the family Viverridae
Large Indian civet is a member of the Viverridae, as are these animals:
- Angolan genet weighting around 1.86 kilograms (4.1 lbs)
- Cape genet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Rusty-spotted genet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Masked palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- African civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Aquatic genet weighting around 1.65 kilograms (3.64 lbs)
- Malabar large-spotted civet becoming 14 years old
- Banded linsang with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Small-toothed palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Large Indian civet
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Western barred bandicoot
- Western barbastelle
- Spotted linsang
- Sonoran woodrat
- Crested porcupine
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur
- Reindeer
- Eastern chestnut mouse
- Cape ground squirrel
- Cacomistle
Animals that get as old as a Large Indian civet
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20 years:
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo with 21 years
- Takin with 19.5 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with 22.83 years
- Geoffroy’s bat with 18 years
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with 21 years
- East Caucasian tur with 22 years
- Springbok with 20 years
- Snow leopard with 18 years
- Emperor tamarin with 20.17 years
- Keen’s myotis with 18.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Large Indian civet
What other animals weight around 9.15 kg (20.17 lbs)?
- East Javan langur usually reaching 9.72 kgs (21.43 lbs)
- Sharpe’s grysbok usually reaching 9.37 kgs (20.66 lbs)
- Cape grysbok usually reaching 10.47 kgs (23.08 lbs)
- Smooth-coated otter usually reaching 8.96 kgs (19.75 lbs)
- Culpeo usually reaching 8.62 kgs (19 lbs)
- Andean mountain cat usually reaching 8.13 kgs (17.92 lbs)
- Siamang usually reaching 10.84 kgs (23.9 lbs)
- Canada lynx usually reaching 9.73 kgs (21.45 lbs)
- Lowland paca usually reaching 8.18 kgs (18.03 lbs)
- Patas monkey usually reaching 7.99 kgs (17.61 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Large Indian civet
Also reaching around 81.9 cm (2′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Goa (antelope) gets as big as 98 cm (3′ 3″)
- Hamadryas baboon gets as big as 67.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Speke’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Fossa (animal) gets as big as 72.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Short-eared dog gets as big as 83.3 cm (2′ 9″)
- Chinese mountain cat gets as big as 78.6 cm (2′ 7″)
- Dingiso gets as big as 67.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Black musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)