How many baby Malayan weasels are in a litter?
A Malayan weasel (Mustela nudipes) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 5 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Mustela). An adult Malayan weasel grows up to a size of 32.6 cm (1′ 1″).
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 Malayan weasel (Mustela nudipes) or Malay weasel is a weasel species native to the Thai-Malay Peninsula and the islands of Sumatra and Borneo. It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
Malayan weasel is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- Marine otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser grison becoming 7.25 years old
- Black-footed ferret with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Steppe polecat with 9 babies per pregnancy
- African striped weasel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- American hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed weasel with 6 babies per pregnancy
- European polecat with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Asian small-clawed otter with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hog badger with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Malayan weasel
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Giant naked-tailed rat
- African grass rat
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster
- Gray-tailed vole
- Northern collared lemming
- Pallas’s cat
- Turkestan rat
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum
- Transcaucasian mole vole
- Cerradomys subflavus
Animals with the same weight as a Malayan weasel
What other animals weight around 569 grams (1.25 lbs)?
- Lesser bamboo rat weighting 472 grams
- Gray-backed sportive lemur weighting 506 grams
- Cotton-top tamarin weighting 463 grams
- Goeldi’s marmoset weighting 558 grams
- Siberian weasel weighting 531 grams
- White-footed sportive lemur weighting 600 grams
- Brazilian guinea pig weighting 524 grams
- Atlantic bamboo rat weighting 600 grams
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel weighting 665 grams
- Giant white-tailed rat weighting 644 grams
Animals with the same size as a Malayan weasel
Also reaching around 32.6 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Chinese ferret-badger gets as big as 38.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- European polecat gets as big as 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Arizona gray squirrel gets as big as 26.4 cm (0′ 11″)
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat gets as big as 26.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Short-beaked echidna gets as big as 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Grandidier’s mongoose gets as big as 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Patagonian weasel gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Great Key Island giant rat gets as big as 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black-capped squirrel monkey gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose gets as big as 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)