How many baby Malagasy civets are in a litter?
A Malagasy civet (Fossa fossana) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 88 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 70 grams (0.15 lbs) and measure 8.3 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Fossa). An adult Malagasy civet grows up to a size of 45.7 cm (1′ 6″).
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 Malagasy or striped civet (Fossa fossana), also known as the fanaloka (Malagasy, [fə̥ˈnaluk]) or jabady, is an euplerid endemic to Madagascar.The Malagasy civet is a small mammal, about 47 centimetres (19 in) long excluding the tail (which is only about 20 centimetres (7.9 in)). It can weigh 1.5 to 2.0 kilograms (3.3 to 4.4 lb). It is endemic to the tropical forests of Madagascar. Malagasy civets are nocturnal. It eats small vertebrates, insects, aquatic animals, and eggs stolen from birds’ nests. The mating season of the Malagasy civet is August to September and the gestation period is three months, ending with the birth of one young. The Malagasy Civet is listed as Vulnerable by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Other animals of the family Viverridae
Malagasy civet is a member of the Viverridae, as are these animals:
- Eastern falanouc with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Owston’s palm civet weighting around 3.27 kilograms (7.21 lbs)
- Giant forest genet weighting around 2.74 kilograms (6.04 lbs)
- Haussa genet weighting around 1.4 kilograms (3.09 lbs)
- Malayan civet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Masked palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Spotted linsang with 2 babies per pregnancy
- African civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Large Indian civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Malabar large-spotted civet becoming 14 years old
Animals that share a litter size with Malagasy civet
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- New Caledonia blossom bat
- Northern elephant seal
- Philippine tarsier
- Spectacled hare-wallaby
- Little free-tailed bat
- Chital
- Pacific white-sided dolphin
- Black-footed cat
- Kerivoula hardwickei
- Hoffmanns’s titi
Animals that get as old as a Malagasy civet
Other animals that usually reach the age of 11 years:
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 10.08 years
- Eastern cottontail with 9 years
- Black-footed cat with 12 years
- Central American agouti with 10 years
- American mink with 10 years
- Pygmy hog with 12 years
- Jaguarundi with 10.58 years
- Greater bamboo lemur with 12 years
- Speke’s pectinator with 10 years
- Black duiker with 10.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Malagasy civet
What other animals weight around 1.86 kg (4.09 lbs)?
- Manchurian hare usually reaching 1.84 kgs (4.06 lbs)
- Ornate cuscus usually reaching 1.79 kgs (3.95 lbs)
- African savanna hare usually reaching 1.76 kgs (3.88 lbs)
- Alpine woolly rat usually reaching 2.04 kgs (4.5 lbs)
- Northern brown bandicoot usually reaching 1.51 kgs (3.33 lbs)
- Sumatran striped rabbit usually reaching 1.51 kgs (3.33 lbs)
- Seven-banded armadillo usually reaching 1.53 kgs (3.37 lbs)
- Snowshoe hare usually reaching 1.57 kgs (3.46 lbs)
- Burmese ferret-badger usually reaching 1.85 kgs (4.08 lbs)
- Ruddy mongoose usually reaching 1.7 kgs (3.75 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Malagasy civet
Also reaching around 45.7 cm (1′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Crab-eating macaque gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Manzano Mountain cottontail gets as big as 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Southern pig-tailed macaque gets as big as 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Selous’s mongoose gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Ground cuscus gets as big as 45.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Macleay’s dorcopsis gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Cozumel raccoon gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Snowshoe hare gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Indian pangolin gets as big as 54.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Asian small-clawed otter gets as big as 51.9 cm (1′ 9″)