How many baby Northern naked-tailed armadillos are in a litter?
A Northern naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous centralis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 42 grams (0.09 lbs) and measure 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Dasypodidae family (genus: Cabassous). An adult Northern naked-tailed armadillo grows up to a size of 41.6 cm (1′ 5″).
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 northern naked-tailed armadillo (Cabassous centralis) is a species of armadillo. It is one of only two species of armadillo found outside of South America, the other being the more widely distributed nine-banded armadillo.
Other animals of the family Dasypodidae
Northern naked-tailed armadillo is a member of the Dasypodidae, as are these animals:
- Pichi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pink fairy armadillo weighting only 86 grams
- Southern long-nosed armadillo with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern three-banded armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater fairy armadillo becoming 12 years old
- Six-banded armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo weighting around 1.49 kilograms (3.28 lbs)
- Screaming hairy armadillo weighting only 930 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Northern naked-tailed armadillo
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat
- Bongo (antelope)
- Black wallaroo
- L’Hoest’s monkey
- Unstriped ground squirrel
- Koslov’s pika
- Hector’s dolphin
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat
- Rhim gazelle
- Niceforo’s big-eared bat
Animals with the same weight as a Northern naked-tailed armadillo
What other animals weight around 3.74 kg (8.25 lbs)?
- Red-tailed monkey usually reaching 3.54 kgs (7.8 lbs)
- Tayra usually reaching 4.14 kgs (9.13 lbs)
- Black dwarf porcupine usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Pallas’s cat usually reaching 3.05 kgs (6.72 lbs)
- Marsh mongoose usually reaching 3.6 kgs (7.94 lbs)
- Black agouti usually reaching 3.5 kgs (7.72 lbs)
- Margay usually reaching 3.27 kgs (7.21 lbs)
- Bald uakari usually reaching 3.42 kgs (7.54 lbs)
- Rüppell’s fox usually reaching 3.25 kgs (7.17 lbs)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Northern naked-tailed armadillo
Also reaching around 41.6 cm (1′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Raccoon gets as big as 48.6 cm (1′ 8″)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat gets as big as 38.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Beech marten gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- European mink gets as big as 36.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Chinese hare gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- African savanna hare gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Reclusive ringtail possum gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Clara’s echymipera gets as big as 34.1 cm (1′ 2″)
- Mexican prairie dog gets as big as 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Bronze quoll gets as big as 35.6 cm (1′ 3″)