How many baby Patagonian maras are in a litter?
A Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 97 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 579 grams (1.28 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Caviidae family (genus: Dolichotis). An adult Patagonian mara grows up to a size of 66.4 cm (2′ 3″).
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 Patagonian mara (Dolichotis patagonum) is a relatively large rodent in the mara genus Dolichotis. It is also known as the Patagonian cavy, Patagonian hare, or dillaby. This herbivorous, somewhat rabbit-like animal is found in open and semiopen habitats in Argentina, including large parts of Patagonia. It is monogamous, but often breeds in warrens shared by several pairs.
Other animals of the family Caviidae
Patagonian mara is a member of the Caviidae, as are these animals:
- Shiny guinea pig with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rock cavy with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Shipton’s mountain cavy with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Greater guinea pig weighting only 460 grams
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser capybara with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Southern mountain cavy with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Brazilian guinea pig with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Brazilian yellow-toothed cavy weighting only 450 grams
- Capybara with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Patagonian mara
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Tufted pygmy squirrel
- Bechstein’s bat
- Southern elephant seal
- Pennant’s colobus
- Mediterranean horseshoe bat
- Pale-throated sloth
- White-bellied duiker
- White-tailed deer
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo
- Hoolock gibbon
Animals that get as old as a Patagonian mara
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14 years:
- Northern bat with 15.5 years
- Capybara with 12 years
- Swamp wallaby with 15 years
- Heterohyrax antineae with 12 years
- Common duiker with 14.25 years
- Dall sheep with 16 years
- Giant otter with 12.83 years
- Gray brocket with 12 years
- Red hartebeest with 15.25 years
- Mountain reedbuck with 12.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Patagonian mara
What other animals weight around 8.03 kg (17.7 lbs)?
- Smooth-coated otter usually reaching 8.96 kgs (19.75 lbs)
- Black-crested Sumatran langur usually reaching 6.45 kgs (14.22 lbs)
- North American river otter usually reaching 8.09 kgs (17.84 lbs)
- François’ langur usually reaching 8.16 kgs (17.99 lbs)
- Ursine colobus usually reaching 7.7 kgs (16.98 lbs)
- Malayan porcupine usually reaching 8 kgs (17.64 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker usually reaching 8.56 kgs (18.87 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker usually reaching 8.44 kgs (18.61 lbs)
- Koala usually reaching 6.55 kgs (14.44 lbs)
- American badger usually reaching 7.84 kgs (17.28 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Patagonian mara
Also reaching around 66.4 cm (2′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Arctic hare gets as big as 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Lowland paca gets as big as 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Tenkile gets as big as 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Neotropical otter gets as big as 60.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- Egyptian mongoose gets as big as 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)
- Lion-tailed macaque gets as big as 54.7 cm (1′ 10″)
- European badger gets as big as 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Bat-eared fox gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Fishing cat gets as big as 77.9 cm (2′ 7″)