How many baby Plains viscachas are in a litter?
A Plains viscacha (Lagostomus maximus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 156 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 196 grams (0.43 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Chinchillidae family (genus: Lagostomus). An adult Plains viscacha grows up to a size of 52.4 cm (1′ 9″).
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 plains viscacha or plains vizcacha (Lagostomus maximus) is a species of viscacha, a rodent in the family Chinchillidae. It is the only living species within the genus Lagostomus. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. The plains viscacha is the largest species in its family. They construct elaborate burrows that house successive colonies for decades.The plains viscacha should not be confused with the plains viscacha rat.
Other animals of the family Chinchillidae
Plains viscacha is a member of the Chinchillidae, as are these animals:
- Long-tailed chinchilla with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern viscacha with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Northern viscacha with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wolffsohn’s viscacha weighting around 2.68 kilograms (5.91 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Plains viscacha
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Gracile Atlantic spiny rat
- Southern dog-faced bat
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat
- Kerivoula hardwickei
- Mountain paca
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
- Black-bearded tomb bat
- Lesser kudu
- Javan rusa
- Dwarf musk deer
Animals that get as old as a Plains viscacha
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9.33 years:
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with 8 years
- Jaguarundi with 10.58 years
- Mountain beaver with 10 years
- Congo rope squirrel with 9.5 years
- White-throated woodrat with 7.67 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 9.75 years
- European mink with 10 years
- Tasmanian pademelon with 10 years
- Red-legged sun squirrel with 8.83 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Plains viscacha
What other animals weight around 4.66 kg (10.27 lbs)?
- Pileated gibbon usually reaching 5.57 kgs (12.28 lbs)
- Hoary fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Sechuran fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Big hairy armadillo usually reaching 4.46 kgs (9.83 lbs)
- Bonnet macaque usually reaching 5 kgs (11.02 lbs)
- Red ruffed lemur usually reaching 3.87 kgs (8.53 lbs)
- Masked palm civet usually reaching 4.3 kgs (9.48 lbs)
- Hoary fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Pampas cat usually reaching 4.4 kgs (9.7 lbs)
- Vancouver Island marmot usually reaching 5.24 kgs (11.55 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Plains viscacha
Also reaching around 52.4 cm (1′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Malagasy civet gets as big as 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Pennant’s colobus gets as big as 56.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Common brown lemur gets as big as 46.3 cm (1′ 7″)
- Red-faced spider monkey gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Liberian mongoose gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Maroon leaf monkey gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Java mouse-deer gets as big as 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tres Marias rabbit gets as big as 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Brazilian porcupine gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)