How many baby Pousargues’s mongooses are in a litter?
A Pousargues’s mongoose (Dologale dybowskii) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 199 grams (0.44 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Herpestidae family (genus: Dologale). An adult Pousargues’s mongoose grows up to a size of 29 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.
Pousargues’s mongoose (Dologale dybowskii), also known as the African tropical savannah mongoose, is a mongoose native to Central Africa. It is listed as data deficient on the IUCN Red List as little is known about its distribution and ecology.Up to the late 20th century, it was known from only around 30 zoological specimens in natural history museum collections.
Other animals of the family Herpestidae
Pousargues’s mongoose is a member of the Herpestidae, as are these animals:
- Egyptian mongoose with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Alexander’s kusimanse with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Angolan slender mongoose weighting only 750 grams
- Indian grey mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose weighting only 485 grams
- Namaqua slender mongoose weighting only 750 grams
- Ring-tailed vontsira with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape gray mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Indian grey mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bushy-tailed mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Pousargues’s mongoose
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Bank vole
- Gracile tateril
- Olympic marmot
- Japanese grass vole
- Sody’s tree rat
- Alpine chipmunk
- Peromyscus maniculatus
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo
- Alpine marmot
- Silky mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Pousargues’s mongoose
What other animals weight around 362 grams (0.8 lbs)?
- White-winged flying fox weighting 343 grams
- Azara’s tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
- Borneo black-banded squirrel weighting 324 grams
- Admiralty flying fox weighting 305 grams
- Madagascan fruit bat weighting 296 grams
- Bower’s white-toothed rat weighting 355 grams
- Colburn’s tuco-tuco weighting 400 grams
- Epixerus ebii wilsoni weighting 422 grams
- Colombian spiny rat weighting 312 grams
- Common marmoset weighting 291 grams
Animals with the same size as a Pousargues’s mongoose
Also reaching around 29 cm (1′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- King rat (animal) gets as big as 26 cm (0′ 11″)
- New Guinean quoll gets as big as 26.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Mimic tree rat gets as big as 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Basilan flying squirrel gets as big as 24.8 cm (0′ 10″)
- Hamlyn’s monkey gets as big as 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Mountain cottontail gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Gunnison’s prairie dog gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Hooded skunk gets as big as 30.8 cm (1′ 1″)
- Conover’s tuco-tuco gets as big as 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- European hedgehog gets as big as 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)