How many baby Long-tailed pangolins are in a litter?
A Long-tailed pangolin (Manis tetradactyla) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 345 grams (0.76 lbs) and measure 13.3 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Manidae family (genus: Manis). An adult Long-tailed pangolin grows up to a size of 48.9 cm (1′ 8″).
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-tailed pangolin (Phataginus tetradactyla), also called the African black-bellied pangolin, or ipi, is a diurnal, arboreal pangolin species belonging to the family Manidae, in the order Pholidota. They feed on ants rather than termites. The common names for this species stem from physical characteristics, such as the extremely long tail or the dark hairs that cover the underside of their bodies and limbs. Pangolin comes from the Malay word pengguling, meaning “something that rolls up”.
Other animals of the family Manidae
Long-tailed pangolin is a member of the Manidae, as are these animals:
- Giant pangolin weighting around 33 kilograms (72.75 lbs)
- Tree pangolin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sunda pangolin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese pangolin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indian pangolin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ground pangolin with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Long-tailed pangolin
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Goat
- Oecomys concolor
- Big-headed African mole-rat
- Allen’s swamp monkey
- Dusky pademelon
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Pale spear-nosed bat
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo
- Greater dog-like bat
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed pangolin
What other animals weight around 2.75 kg (6.06 lbs)?
- Striped skunk usually reaching 2.4 kgs (5.29 lbs)
- Red-rumped agouti usually reaching 3.02 kgs (6.66 lbs)
- Dusky pademelon usually reaching 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat usually reaching 3.05 kgs (6.72 lbs)
- Equatorial saki usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Black-footed mongoose usually reaching 2.62 kgs (5.78 lbs)
- Meller’s mongoose usually reaching 2.24 kgs (4.94 lbs)
- Sclater’s guenon usually reaching 3.07 kgs (6.77 lbs)
- Wolf’s mona monkey usually reaching 3.26 kgs (7.19 lbs)
- Jameson’s red rock hare usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)