How many baby Pichis are in a litter?
A Pichi (Zaedyus pichiy) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 61 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 105 grams (0.23 lbs) and measure 11.1 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Dasypodidae family (genus: Zaedyus). An adult Pichi grows up to a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″).
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 pichi (Zaedyus pichiy), dwarf armadillo or pygmy armadillo is a armadillo native to Argentina and Chile. It is the only living member of the genus Zaedyus, and the only armadillo to hibernate.
Other animals of the family Dasypodidae
Pichi is a member of the Dasypodidae, as are these animals:
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater naked-tailed armadillo weighting around 5.35 kilograms (11.79 lbs)
- Nine-banded armadillo with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Southern three-banded armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Six-banded armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater fairy armadillo becoming 12 years old
- Pink fairy armadillo weighting only 86 grams
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater fairy armadillo becoming 12 years old
Animals that share a litter size with Pichi
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Layard’s palm squirrel
- Serval
- Western barred bandicoot
- Northern yellow bat
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat
- Long-tailed mouse
- Mountain treeshrew
- Balkan snow vole
- Temminck’s striped mouse
- Red-legged sun squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Pichi
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9 years:
- Fisher (animal) with 10.08 years
- Taruca with 10.58 years
- Hispaniolan hutia with 9.83 years
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat with 10 years
- Lesser long-nosed bat with 10 years
- Banded linsang with 10.67 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 9.75 years
- Speke’s pectinator with 10 years
- Jamaican coney with 8.25 years
- California leaf-nosed bat with 10.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Pichi
What other animals weight around 1.49 kg (3.28 lbs)?
- Chacoan mara usually reaching 1.61 kgs (3.55 lbs)
- Black-footed cat usually reaching 1.36 kgs (3 lbs)
- Mongoose lemur usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Telefomin cuscus usually reaching 1.44 kgs (3.17 lbs)
- Northern olingo usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Black jackrabbit usually reaching 1.27 kgs (2.8 lbs)
- Southern long-nosed armadillo usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Southern three-banded armadillo usually reaching 1.32 kgs (2.91 lbs)
- Hispaniolan hutia usually reaching 1.27 kgs (2.8 lbs)
- Nasuella olivacea usually reaching 1.34 kgs (2.95 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pichi
Also reaching around 29.7 cm (1′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Prevost’s squirrel gets as big as 24.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Western white-eared giant rat gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Greater grison gets as big as 25.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Bulmer’s fruit bat gets as big as 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Gray four-eyed opossum gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Peruvian tuco-tuco gets as big as 23.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Malagasy giant rat gets as big as 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Mongoose lemur gets as big as 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Indonesian mountain weasel gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Striped bandicoot gets as big as 26.7 cm (0′ 11″)