How many baby Otter civets are in a litter?
A Otter civet (Cynogale bennettii) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 35 grams (0.08 lbs) and measure 25.4 cm (0′ 10″). They are a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Cynogale). An adult Otter civet grows up to a size of 62.6 cm (2′ 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 otter civet (Cynogale bennettii) is a semiaquatic civet native to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. It is listed as Endangered because of a serious ongoing population decline, estimated to be more than 50% over the past three generations (estimated to be 15 years), inferred from direct habitat destruction, and indirect inferred declines due to pollutants.Cynogale is a monospecific genus.
Other animals of the family Viverridae
Otter civet is a member of the Viverridae, as are these animals:
- Malayan civet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Banded linsang with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Servaline genet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Malagasy civet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common genet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Fossa (animal) with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Small Indian civet with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Small-toothed palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Rusty-spotted genet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Abyssinian genet weighting around 1.41 kilograms (3.11 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Otter civet
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Greater long-tailed hamster
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot
- Mzab gundi
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher
- Fossa (animal)
- Common marmoset
- Tatra pine vole
- African wading rat
- Particolored flying squirrel
- Common rock rat
Animals that get as old as a Otter civet
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Great Basin pocket mouse with 4 years
- Greater cane rat with 4.25 years
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with 4.58 years
- Stripe-faced dunnart with 4.83 years
- Hispid cotton rat with 5.17 years
- Common sheath-tailed bat with 5 years
- Bahamian hutia with 6 years
- Woodland dormouse with 5.75 years
- Steppe pika with 4 years
- Lemur-like ringtail possum with 4 years
Animals with the same weight as a Otter civet
What other animals weight around 4.25 kg (9.37 lbs)?
- Maned sloth usually reaching 4.47 kgs (9.85 lbs)
- Grivet usually reaching 3.86 kgs (8.51 lbs)
- Hairy long-nosed armadillo usually reaching 4.44 kgs (9.79 lbs)
- Olive colobus usually reaching 3.98 kgs (8.77 lbs)
- Golden-crowned sifaka usually reaching 3.53 kgs (7.78 lbs)
- Spotted-necked otter usually reaching 4.19 kgs (9.24 lbs)
- Coquerel’s sifaka usually reaching 4.19 kgs (9.24 lbs)
- Blue duiker usually reaching 4.9 kgs (10.8 lbs)
- Nine-banded armadillo usually reaching 3.98 kgs (8.77 lbs)
- Crab-eating macaque usually reaching 4.58 kgs (10.1 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Otter civet
Also reaching around 62.6 cm (2′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Gray dorcopsis gets as big as 66.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Sharpe’s grysbok gets as big as 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Giant forest genet gets as big as 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey gets as big as 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- King colobus gets as big as 62.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Lar gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tasmanian devil gets as big as 55.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tonkean macaque gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Marbled cat gets as big as 51.7 cm (1′ 9″)