How many baby Marsh mongooses are in a litter?
A Marsh mongoose (Atilax paludinosus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 77 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 100 grams (0.22 lbs) and measure 18 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Herpestidae family (genus: Atilax). An adult Marsh mongoose grows up to a size of 50 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 marsh mongoose (Atilax paludinosus) is a medium-sized mongoose native to sub-Saharan Africa, where it inhabits foremost freshwater wetlands. It has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2008.
Other animals of the family Herpestidae
Marsh mongoose is a member of the Herpestidae, as are these animals:
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Meller’s mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ring-tailed vontsira with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Namaqua slender mongoose weighting only 750 grams
- Ruddy mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bengal mongoose weighting only 741 grams
- Bushy-tailed mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-striped mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Marsh mongoose
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Guaira spiny rat
- Greater Egyptian jerboa
- Broad-toothed mouse
- Yellow golden mole
- Asian particolored bat
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Buffy-tufted marmoset
- Red panda
- Ruwenzori sun squirrel
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher
Animals that get as old as a Marsh mongoose
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17.42 years:
- Bongo (antelope) with 19.42 years
- Fringed myotis with 18.25 years
- Indian muntjac with 17.58 years
- Big hairy armadillo with 20 years
- Philippine tarsier with 15 years
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with 14 years
- Black bearded saki with 18 years
- Silvery marmoset with 16.75 years
- Northern bat with 15.5 years
- Cougar with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Marsh mongoose
What other animals weight around 3.6 kg (7.94 lbs)?
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 3.74 kgs (8.25 lbs)
- South American coati usually reaching 3.78 kgs (8.33 lbs)
- Sechuran fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Philippine porcupine usually reaching 3.55 kgs (7.83 lbs)
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain usually reaching 3.11 kgs (6.86 lbs)
- Azara’s agouti usually reaching 2.98 kgs (6.57 lbs)
- Yellow-bellied marmot usually reaching 3.71 kgs (8.18 lbs)
- Kaapori capuchin usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 3.37 kgs (7.43 lbs)
- White-throated guenon usually reaching 3.44 kgs (7.58 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Marsh mongoose
Also reaching around 50 cm (1′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Peruvian spider monkey gets as big as 45.4 cm (1′ 6″)
- European pine marten gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Geoffroy’s cat gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey gets as big as 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Beech marten gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Suni gets as big as 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Java mouse-deer gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- White-nosed coati gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Aye-aye gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- African palm civet gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)