How many baby Red river hogs are in a litter?
A Red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 120 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 750 grams (1.65 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Suidae family (genus: Potamochoerus). An adult Red river hog grows up to a size of 1.37 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 red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus), also known as the bush pig (but not to be confused with P. larvatus, common name “bushpig”), is a wild member of the pig family living in Africa, with most of its distribution in the Guinean and Congolian forests. It is rarely seen away from rainforests, and generally prefers areas near rivers or swamps.
Other animals of the family Suidae
Red river hog is a member of the Suidae, as are these animals:
- Wild boar with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Bornean bearded pig with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Buru babirusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy hog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Desert warthog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Visayan warty pig with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Giant forest hog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Common warthog becoming 15 years old
- Bushpig with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Javan warty pig with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red river hog
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Dusky hopping mouse
- Northern collared lemming
- Lesser gray-brown musk shrew
- Red-nosed mouse
- Beech marten
- Tyler’s mouse opossum
- Swinhoe’s striped squirrel
- San Diego pocket mouse
- Père David’s mole
- Bahamian raccoon
Animals that get as old as a Red river hog
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20 years:
- Plains zebra with 20 years
- Binturong with 22.67 years
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with 23 years
- Eurasian otter with 22 years
- Coyote with 21.83 years
- Himalayan goral with 17.58 years
- Goeldi’s marmoset with 17.83 years
- Dama gazelle with 17.25 years
- Bontebok with 21.67 years
- Cheetah with 19 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red river hog
What other animals weight around 70 kg (154.32 lbs)?
- South Andean deer usually reaching 69.02 kgs (152.16 lbs)
- Bushpig usually reaching 68.91 kgs (151.92 lbs)
- Abbott’s duiker usually reaching 56.68 kgs (124.96 lbs)
- Alpaca usually reaching 64.9 kgs (143.08 lbs)
- White-tailed deer usually reaching 75.6 kgs (166.67 lbs)
- Kob usually reaching 79.77 kgs (175.86 lbs)
- Aardvark usually reaching 56.85 kgs (125.33 lbs)
- Southern reedbuck usually reaching 57.94 kgs (127.74 lbs)
- Homo sapiens usually reaching 58.62 kgs (129.23 lbs)
- Spectacled porpoise usually reaching 65 kgs (143.3 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Red river hog
Also reaching around 1.37 meter (4′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Barbary sheep gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Grant’s gazelle gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Sea otter gets as big as 1.44 meter (4′ 9″)
- Baikal seal gets as big as 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Sun bear gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Vicuña gets as big as 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Jaguar gets as big as 1.33 meter (4′ 5″)
- Roan antelope gets as big as 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Puku gets as big as 1.34 meter (4′ 5″)
- Vaquita gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)