How many baby Macroscelides proboscideuss are in a litter?
A Macroscelides proboscideus (Macroscelides proboscideus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 58 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 2.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Macroscelididae family (genus: Macroscelides). An adult Macroscelides proboscideus grows up to a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″).
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 round-eared elephant shrew (Macroscelides proboscideus) or round-eared sengi (called the Karoo round-eared elephant shrew to distinguish it from its sister species; formerly misleadingly named the “short-eared elephant shrew”), is a species of elephant shrew (sengi) in the family Macroscelididae. It is found in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and hot deserts. They eat insects, shoots, and roots. Their gestation period is 56 days.Elephant shrews are among only a handful of monogamous mammals, making them a model group for the study of monogamy. They have been studied for their mate guarding behavior.
Other animals of the family Macroscelididae
Macroscelides proboscideus is a member of the Macroscelididae, as are these animals:
- Checkered elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black and rufous elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bushveld elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rufous elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western rock elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Somali elephant shrew weighting only 32 grams
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dusky elephant shrew with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Macroscelides proboscideus
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Nilgiri langur
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat
- Aders’s duiker
- Cyclops roundleaf bat
- Sloth bear
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat
- Eisentraut’s shrew
- Northern nail-tail wallaby
- Zebra duiker
Animals with the same weight as a Macroscelides proboscideus
What other animals weight around 38 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Shield-faced roundleaf bat weighting 40 grams
- Hairy fruit-eating bat weighting 40 grams
- Greater noctule bat weighting 45 grams
- Painted spiny pocket mouse weighting 43 grams
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat weighting 33 grams
- Little red kaluta weighting 32 grams
- Dark bolo mouse weighting 40 grams
- Temminck’s flying squirrel weighting 43 grams
- Abrothrix longipilis weighting 38 grams
- Djoongari weighting 39 grams
Animals with the same size as a Macroscelides proboscideus
Also reaching around 11.3 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Altiplano grass mouse gets as big as 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western heather vole gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Umboi tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Plains rat gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dragon tube-nosed fruit bat gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican volcano mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-toothed brush mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)