How many baby Lesser hedgehog tenrecs are in a litter?
A Lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 62 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 1.1 meter (3′ 8″). They are a member of the Tenrecidae family (genus: Echinops). An adult Lesser hedgehog tenrec grows up to a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″).
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 lesser hedgehog tenrec (Echinops telfairi) is a species of mammal in the family Tenrecidae.It is the only species in the genus Echinops and is named in honour of Charles Telfair.
Other animals of the family Tenrecidae
Lesser hedgehog tenrec is a member of the Tenrecidae, as are these animals:
- Taiva shrew tenrec weighting only 12 grams
- Highland streaked tenrec with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mole-like rice tenrec weighting only 34 grams
- Lowland streaked tenrec with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Large-eared tenrec with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Shrew-toothed shrew tenrec weighting only 18 grams
- Pygmy shrew tenrec weighting only 4 grams
- Pale shrew tenrec weighting only 7 grams
- Drouhard’s shrew tenrec weighting only 10 grams
- Short-tailed shrew tenrec with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Lesser hedgehog tenrec
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Little Indian field mouse
- Southern red-backed vole
- Sagebrush vole
- Dalton’s mouse
- Algerian mouse
- Eastern quoll
- Long-tailed pocket mouse
- Norway lemming
- Edible dormouse
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart
Animals that get as old as a Lesser hedgehog tenrec
Other animals that usually reach the age of 13 years:
- African clawless otter with 11 years
- Silver-haired bat with 12 years
- Common bent-wing bat with 14 years
- Water deer with 12 years
- Suni with 14 years
- Side-striped jackal with 11.42 years
- Spectral tarsier with 12 years
- Thylacine with 13 years
- Thomson’s gazelle with 15.17 years
- Beira (antelope) with 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Lesser hedgehog tenrec
What other animals weight around 160 grams (0.35 lbs)?
- Sangihe tarsier weighting 165 grams
- Edible dormouse weighting 128 grams
- Sooretamys weighting 144 grams
- Fraternal hill rat weighting 130 grams
- Talas tuco-tuco weighting 141 grams
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel weighting 160 grams
- Haig’s tuco-tuco weighting 164 grams
- Mountain treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Island mouse weighting 164 grams
- Mexican ground squirrel weighting 177 grams
Animals with the same size as a Lesser hedgehog tenrec
Also reaching around 16 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Bush vlei rat gets as big as 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky bushbaby gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Shaw Mayer’s water rat gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Townsend’s chipmunk gets as big as 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Altai mole gets as big as 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Round-tailed ground squirrel gets as big as 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Golden hamster gets as big as 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Philippine forest rat gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)