How many baby Linnaeus’s two-toed sloths are in a litter?
A Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 270 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 364 grams (0.8 lbs) and measure 7.6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Megalonychidae family (genus: Choloepus). An adult Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth grows up to a size of 69 cm (2′ 4″).
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.
Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus), also known as the southern two-toed sloth, unau, or Linne’s two-toed sloth is a species of sloth from South America, found in Venezuela, the Guyanas, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil north of the Amazon River. There is now evidence suggesting the species’ range expands into Bolivia.
Other animals of the family Megalonychidae
Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth is a member of the Megalonychidae, as are these animals:
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo
- Southern tree hyrax
- Biak glider
- Zebra duiker
- Narwhal
- Chocolate wattled bat
- Little collared fruit bat
- Weasel sportive lemur
- Guadalupe fur seal
- Red-tailed monkey
Animals that get as old as a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
Other animals that usually reach the age of 27.75 years:
- Okapi with 33 years
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with 32.67 years
- Red-shanked douc with 25 years
- Bearded seal with 31.42 years
- Eurasian beaver with 25 years
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with 32 years
- Banteng with 26.5 years
- Guadalupe fur seal with 24 years
- North American river otter with 25 years
- Indian flying fox with 31.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
What other animals weight around 6.61 kg (14.57 lbs)?
- Sooty mangabey usually reaching 6.94 kgs (15.3 lbs)
- White-bellied spider monkey usually reaching 6.71 kgs (14.79 lbs)
- Black-spotted cuscus usually reaching 6 kgs (13.23 lbs)
- Phayre’s leaf monkey usually reaching 7.69 kgs (16.95 lbs)
- Collared mangabey usually reaching 7.29 kgs (16.07 lbs)
- Rhesus macaque usually reaching 6.45 kgs (14.22 lbs)
- Brown woolly monkey usually reaching 6.27 kgs (13.82 lbs)
- North American porcupine usually reaching 7.42 kgs (16.36 lbs)
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby usually reaching 6.94 kgs (15.3 lbs)
- Celebes crested macaque usually reaching 7.37 kgs (16.25 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
Also reaching around 69 cm (2′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Dingiso gets as big as 67.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Marine otter gets as big as 67.8 cm (2′ 3″)
- Margay gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Siamang gets as big as 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Preuss’s red colobus gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Pacarana gets as big as 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- American badger gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Egyptian mongoose gets as big as 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Brown dorcopsis gets as big as 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Neotropical otter gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)