How many baby Narrow-striped mongooses are in a litter?
A Narrow-striped mongoose (Mungotictis decemlineata) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 100 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 49 grams (0.11 lbs) and measure 9.9 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Herpestidae family (genus: Mungotictis). An adult Narrow-striped mongoose grows up to a size of 31.2 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 narrow-striped mongoose (Mungotictis decemlineata) is a member of the family Eupleridae endemic to Madagascar. It inhabits the Madagascar dry deciduous forests in western and southwestern Madagascar, where it lives from sea level to about 125 m (410 ft) between the Tsiribihina and Mangoky rivers. In Malagasy it is called bokiboky (pronounced “Boo-ky Boo-ky”).
Other animals of the family Herpestidae
Narrow-striped mongoose is a member of the Herpestidae, as are these animals:
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bengal mongoose weighting only 741 grams
- Egyptian mongoose with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pousargues’s mongoose with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Alexander’s kusimanse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Common kusimanse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Crab-eating mongoose with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Jackson’s mongoose weighting around 2.5 kilograms (5.51 lbs)
- Indian grey mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Narrow-striped mongoose
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Earless water rat
- Short-eared rock-wallaby
- Blackbuck
- Little red brocket
- Gray-bellied night monkey
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat
- Seba’s short-tailed bat
- Spix’s night monkey
- Hammer-headed bat
- Gray dorcopsis
Animals with the same weight as a Narrow-striped mongoose
What other animals weight around 664 grams (1.46 lbs)?
- Nancy Ma’s night monkey weighting 791 grams
- Greater bandicoot rat weighting 583 grams
- Eastern gray squirrel weighting 546 grams
- Namaqua slender mongoose weighting 750 grams
- Abert’s squirrel weighting 623 grams
- Mexican fox squirrel weighting 697 grams
- Arizona gray squirrel weighting 647 grams
- Angolan slender mongoose weighting 750 grams
- Long-nosed bandicoot weighting 720 grams
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew weighting 535 grams
Animals with the same size as a Narrow-striped mongoose
Also reaching around 31.2 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Ring-tailed cat gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Great flying fox gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Golden lion tamarin gets as big as 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Grey-headed flying fox gets as big as 27.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Cape dune mole-rat gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Ilin Island cloudrunner gets as big as 25.3 cm (0′ 10″)
- Oncilla gets as big as 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Pousargues’s mongoose gets as big as 29 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black flying fox gets as big as 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)