How many baby Northern viscachas are in a litter?
A Northern viscacha (Lagidium peruanum) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 140 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 181 grams (0.4 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Chinchillidae family (genus: Lagidium). An adult Northern viscacha grows up to a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 2″).
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 viscacha (Lagidium peruanum) is a species of viscacha, a rodent in the family Chinchillidae. It is known from Peru and Chile, at elevations from 300 to 5000 m, and may also be present in Bolivia.
Other animals of the family Chinchillidae
Northern viscacha is a member of the Chinchillidae, as are these animals:
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed chinchilla with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Plains viscacha with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wolffsohn’s viscacha weighting around 2.68 kilograms (5.91 lbs)
- Southern viscacha with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Northern viscacha
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Brazilian porcupine
- Fea’s muntjac
- Bearded seal
- Pennant’s colobus
- Giant roundleaf bat
- West Caucasian tur
- Black duiker
- Mentawai langur
- Ground cuscus
- Rufous hare-wallaby
Animals that get as old as a Northern viscacha
Other animals that usually reach the age of 19.5 years:
- Anoa with 22.5 years
- Northern greater galago with 17 years
- Straw-coloured fruit bat with 21.75 years
- West Caucasian tur with 20.5 years
- Southern elephant seal with 23 years
- Iberian ibex with 16 years
- East Caucasian tur with 22 years
- Roan antelope with 20 years
- Senegal bushbaby with 17 years
- False killer whale with 22 years
Animals with the same weight as a Northern viscacha
What other animals weight around 1.22 kg (2.69 lbs)?
- Common kusimanse usually reaching 1.39 kgs (3.06 lbs)
- Spotted giant flying squirrel usually reaching 1.04 kgs (2.29 lbs)
- Greater grison usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Southern three-banded armadillo usually reaching 1.32 kgs (2.91 lbs)
- Telefomin cuscus usually reaching 1.44 kgs (3.17 lbs)
- Big-eared opossum usually reaching 1.11 kgs (2.45 lbs)
- European pine marten usually reaching 1.3 kgs (2.87 lbs)
- Poncelet’s giant rat usually reaching 1 kgs (2.2 lbs)
- Northern olingo usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Hooded skunk usually reaching 1.1 kgs (2.43 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Northern viscacha
Also reaching around 34.2 cm (1′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Common kusimanse gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Arctic ground squirrel gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Podogymnura truei gets as big as 31.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- American marten gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Small-toothed sportive lemur gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Hamlyn’s monkey gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Common opossum gets as big as 40.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Moonrat gets as big as 32.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Slender mongoose gets as big as 33 cm (1′ 1″)
- Giant naked-tailed rat gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)