How many baby Molina’s hog-nosed skunks are in a litter?
A Molina’s hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus chinga) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Conepatus). An adult Molina’s hog-nosed skunk grows up to a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″).
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.
Molina’s hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus chinga) is similar to the common skunk with scent glands used to spray an odorous liquid to offend potential predators. They have a resistance to pit viper venom, distinct thin white markings and a pink, hog-like, fleshy nose.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
Molina’s hog-nosed skunk is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- Southern river otter weighting around 7.5 kilograms (16.53 lbs)
- Beech marten with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Marbled polecat with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-throated marten with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Asian small-clawed otter with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Palawan stink badger weighting around 2.5 kilograms (5.51 lbs)
- Yellow-bellied weasel weighting only 264 grams
- Fisher (animal) with 3 babies per pregnancy
- African striped weasel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- American hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Molina’s hog-nosed skunk
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Antelope jackrabbit
- Ruddy mongoose
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew
- Congo rope squirrel
- Rock hyrax
- Rüppell’s fox
- Mexican vole
- Black-footed tree-rat
- Southern spiny pocket mouse
Animals that get as old as a Molina’s hog-nosed skunk
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3.33 years:
- Black-footed tree-rat with 3.83 years
- Etruscan shrew with 2.67 years
- Siberian flying squirrel with 3.75 years
- Japanese mountain mole with 3 years
- Parantechinus bilarni with 3 years
- Common opossum with 2.67 years
- Bicolored shrew with 3 years
- Winter white dwarf hamster with 3.17 years
- Northern pocket gopher with 3.75 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with 3.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Molina’s hog-nosed skunk
What other animals weight around 960 grams (2.12 lbs)?
- Mountain cottontail weighting 803 grams
- Hoffmanns’s titi usually reaching 1.07 kgs (2.36 lbs)
- Desert rat-kangaroo weighting 929 grams
- Bahamian hutia weighting 912 grams
- Indian flying fox weighting 822 grams
- Ollala brothers’s titi weighting 992 grams
- White-tailed prairie dog weighting 964 grams
- European hedgehog weighting 789 grams
- Emperor rat usually reaching 1 kgs (2.2 lbs)
- Conover’s tuco-tuco weighting 860 grams
Animals with the same size as a Molina’s hog-nosed skunk
Also reaching around 21.1 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Barbary ground squirrel gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose gets as big as 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Earless water rat gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat gets as big as 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sonoran woodrat gets as big as 19.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ruddy treeshrew gets as big as 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Hagen’s flying squirrel gets as big as 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large vlei rat gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)