How many baby Long-eared hedgehogs are in a litter?
A Long-eared hedgehog (Hemiechinus auritus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 37 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 5.5 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Erinaceidae family (genus: Hemiechinus). An adult Long-eared hedgehog grows up to a size of 21 cm (0′ 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 long-eared hedgehog (Hemiechinus auritus) is a species of hedgehog native to Central Asian countries and some countries of the Middle East. The long-eared hedgehog lives in burrows that it either makes or finds and is distinguished by its long ears. It is considered one of the smallest Middle Eastern hedgehogs. This hedgehog is insectivorous but may also feed on small vertebrates and plants. In captivity they can live for over 7 years.Since the long-eared hedgehog is naturally parasite prone and can carry diseases as bad as plague, it is highly recommended that, if kept as a pet, it should be purchased from a respected dealer. Wild hedgehogs have been found to carry Rhipicephalus sanguineus, the brown dog tick, which can transmit Boutonneuse fever.
Other animals of the family Erinaceidae
Long-eared hedgehog is a member of the Erinaceidae, as are these animals:
- Hainan gymnure weighting only 58 grams
- European hedgehog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- North African hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Four-toed hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Moonrat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Desert hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Amur hedgehog raching a size of 24.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Shrew gymnure with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Short-tailed gymnure with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hugh’s hedgehog raching a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals that share a litter size with Long-eared hedgehog
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Fulvous harvest mouse
- Kobe mole
- Desert warthog
- Bushy-tailed woodrat
- Chilean rock rat
- Savanna gerbil
- Deroo’s mouse
- Flat-headed shrew
- Crab-eating mongoose
- Peruvian tuco-tuco
Animals that get as old as a Long-eared hedgehog
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6.75 years:
- Yellow-bellied marmot with 8 years
- Eastern mole with 6.17 years
- Greater musky fruit bat with 8 years
- Kowari with 7 years
- Woylie with 6.5 years
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with 8 years
- Woodland dormouse with 5.75 years
- Common degu with 7.08 years
- Rufous elephant shrew with 6 years
- Serotine bat with 6 years
Animals with the same weight as a Long-eared hedgehog
What other animals weight around 332 grams (0.73 lbs)?
- Silvery marmoset weighting 376 grams
- Eastern small-toothed rat weighting 357 grams
- Horse-tailed squirrel weighting 358 grams
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat weighting 284 grams
- Brown-mantled tamarin weighting 393 grams
- Common dwarf mongoose weighting 283 grams
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat weighting 301 grams
- Brown rat weighting 282 grams
- Common gundi weighting 289 grams
- Bower’s white-toothed rat weighting 355 grams
Animals with the same size as a Long-eared hedgehog
Also reaching around 21 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Guyenne spiny rat gets as big as 22 cm (0′ 9″)
- Stoat gets as big as 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Derby’s woolly opossum gets as big as 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Kinabalu squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Microcebus coquereli gets as big as 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Turkestan red pika gets as big as 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Geelvink Bay flying fox gets as big as 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- American red squirrel gets as big as 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)