How many baby Pacaranas are in a litter?
A Pacarana (Dinomys branickii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 252 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 769 grams (1.7 lbs) and measure 27.5 cm (0′ 11″). They are a member of the Dinomyidae family (genus: Dinomys). An adult Pacarana grows up to a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″).
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 pacarana (Dinomys branickii) is a rare and slow-moving hystricognath rodent indigenous to South America. Native Tupi people call it the pacarana (false paca) because it is superficially similar to the paca, a different rodent which is not in the same family. The pacarana has a chunky body and is large for a rodent, weighing up to 15 kg (33 lb) and measuring up to 79 cm (31 in) in length, not including the thick, furry tail.The pacarana is nocturnal and is found only in tropical forests of the western Amazon River basin and adjacent foothills of the Andes Mountains. It ranges from northwestern Venezuela and Colombia to western Bolivia, including the Yungas. It is common in Cotapata National Park in Bolivia.The pacarana is the sole extant member of the rodent family Dinomyidae in the infraorder Caviomorpha; the paca that it resembles in appearance is in a different Caviomorph family, the Cuniculidae. Initially, the pacarana was regarded as a member of the superfamily Muroidea, that includes the true mice, but that view was abandoned in the face of evidence that suggests that the pacarana is in the family Dinomyidae together with extinct animals such as Phoberomys pattersoni and Josephoartigasia monesi, prehistoric giant rodents that lived in South America several million years ago.Pacaranas typically are found in family groups of four or five.
Animals that share a litter size with Pacarana
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Aders’s duiker
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat
- Dian’s tarsier
- Guam flying fox
- Wedge-capped capuchin
- Zanzibar red colobus
- Tree bat
- Blue wildebeest
- South American tapir
- White-striped free-tailed bat
Animals that get as old as a Pacarana
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9.33 years:
- Short-eared dog with 11 years
- Greater Egyptian gerbil with 8.17 years
- Common dwarf mongoose with 10.92 years
- Blanford’s fox with 10 years
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with 10.5 years
- California leaf-nosed bat with 10.33 years
- Oncilla with 10 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with 8 years
- Bengal fox with 10 years
- Red-necked pademelon with 9 years
Animals with the same weight as a Pacarana
What other animals weight around 12.5 kg (27.56 lbs)?
- African golden cat usually reaching 11.29 kgs (24.89 lbs)
- Whiptail wallaby usually reaching 12.67 kgs (27.93 lbs)
- Red-flanked duiker usually reaching 12.06 kgs (26.59 lbs)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 13.46 kgs (29.67 lbs)
- Plate-toothed giant hutia usually reaching 13.7 kgs (30.2 lbs)
- Harvey’s duiker usually reaching 14.5 kgs (31.97 lbs)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo usually reaching 13.28 kgs (29.28 lbs)
- Caracal usually reaching 11.98 kgs (26.41 lbs)
- Crested porcupine usually reaching 13.4 kgs (29.54 lbs)
- European badger usually reaching 11.89 kgs (26.21 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pacarana
Also reaching around 75 cm (2′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Margay gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Bristle-spined rat gets as big as 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Ursine colobus gets as big as 63.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Eastern grey kangaroo gets as big as 87.7 cm (2′ 11″)
- Indri gets as big as 73.4 cm (2′ 5″)
- Black-footed gray langur gets as big as 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- King colobus gets as big as 62.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Mandrill gets as big as 75.8 cm (2′ 6″)
- Jungle cat gets as big as 70.6 cm (2′ 4″)
- Pampas cat gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)