How many baby Lowland streaked tenrecs are in a litter?
A Lowland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 10 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 55 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 3.1 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Tenrecidae family (genus: Hemicentetes). An adult Lowland streaked tenrec grows up to a size of 17.5 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 lowland streaked tenrec (Hemicentetes semispinosus) is a small tenrec found in Madagascar.
Other animals of the family Tenrecidae
Lowland streaked tenrec is a member of the Tenrecidae, as are these animals:
- Nimba otter shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy shrew tenrec weighting only 3 grams
- Least shrew tenrec weighting only 3 grams
- Thomas’s shrew tenrec weighting only 22 grams
- Web-footed tenrec with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Dryad shrew tenrec weighting only 40 grams
- Taiva shrew tenrec weighting only 12 grams
- Four-toed rice tenrec weighting only 35 grams
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Lowland streaked tenrec
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Olive grass mouse
- Edible dormouse
- Royle’s mountain vole
- Red wolf
- Wood mouse
- Gansu shrew
- Norway lemming
- Greater fat-tailed jerboa
- Buxton’s jird
- Eversmann’s hamster
Animals that get as old as a Lowland streaked tenrec
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2.67 years:
- Common vole with 3 years
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with 2.58 years
- Northern short-tailed shrew with 2.75 years
- Narrow-nosed planigale with 3 years
- Chestnut tree mouse with 2.42 years
- Asian house shrew with 2.5 years
- Common opossum with 2.67 years
- Eastern woodrat with 3 years
- Eurasian water shrew with 3 years
- North African elephant shrew with 3 years
Animals with the same weight as a Lowland streaked tenrec
What other animals weight around 129 grams (0.28 lbs)?
- Sloggett’s vlei rat weighting 106 grams
- Common treeshrew weighting 132 grams
- Dusky spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 150 grams
- Dian’s tarsier weighting 111 grams
- Whiskered flying squirrel weighting 108 grams
- White-tailed antelope squirrel weighting 104 grams
- Leadbeater’s possum weighting 137 grams
- European water vole weighting 120 grams
- Alpine pika weighting 150 grams
Animals with the same size as a Lowland streaked tenrec
Also reaching around 17.5 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Jentink’s squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Water vole (North America) gets as big as 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ceram fruit bat gets as big as 20.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Haig’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindanao treeshrew gets as big as 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Congo rope squirrel gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Ornate flying fox gets as big as 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Royle’s pika gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hastings River mouse gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)