How many baby Philippine warty pigs are in a litter?
A Philippine warty pig (Sus philippensis) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 125 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 30 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 1.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Suidae family (genus: Sus). An adult Philippine warty pig grows up to a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 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 Philippine warty pig (Sus philippensis) is one of four known species in the pig genus (Sus) endemic to the Philippines. The other three endemic species are the Visayan warty pig (S. cebifrons), Mindoro warty pig (S. oliveri) and the Palawan bearded pig (S. ahoenobarbus), also being rare members of the family Suidae. Philippine warty pigs have two pairs of warts, with a tuft of hair extending outwards from the warts closest to the jaw. It has multiple native common names, but it is most widely known as baboy damo (“bush pig”) in Tagalog.
Other animals of the family Suidae
Philippine warty pig is a member of the Suidae, as are these animals:
- Common warthog becoming 15 years old
- Bornean bearded pig with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Javan warty pig with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Wild boar with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Red river hog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Bushpig with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Celebes warty pig with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan warty pig with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Desert warthog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Giant forest hog with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Philippine warty pig
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- Maximowicz’s vole
- Arctic shrew
- Gray leaf-eared mouse
- White-eared opossum
- Greater bandicoot rat
- Spotted ground squirrel
- Afghan pika
- Brush-tailed phascogale
- Günther’s vole
- Harris’s antelope squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Philippine warty pig
What other animals weight around 189.4 kg (417.55 lbs)?
- Visayan warty pig usually reaching 189.4 kgs (417.56 lbs)
- Pygmy killer whale usually reaching 170 kgs (374.79 lbs)
- Hartebeest usually reaching 162.47 kgs (358.18 lbs)
- Brown fur seal usually reaching 178.75 kgs (394.08 lbs)
- Dwarf sperm whale usually reaching 183.07 kgs (403.6 lbs)
- Brown bear usually reaching 196.14 kgs (432.41 lbs)
- Caribbean monk seal usually reaching 198.38 kgs (437.35 lbs)
- Barasingha usually reaching 171.22 kgs (377.48 lbs)
- Melon-headed whale usually reaching 206 kgs (454.15 lbs)
- Mountain nyala usually reaching 215 kgs (473.99 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Philippine warty pig
Also reaching around 1.35 meter (4′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Blackbuck gets as big as 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Antarctic fur seal gets as big as 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Abbott’s duiker gets as big as 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- Roan antelope gets as big as 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Bornean bearded pig gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Grant’s gazelle gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Argali gets as big as 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Mountain goat gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Common warthog gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Ringed seal gets as big as 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)