How many baby Red-rumped agoutis are in a litter?
A Red-rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 109 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6.87 kg (15.15 lbs) and measure 62.1 cm (2′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyproctidae family (genus: Dasyprocta). An adult Red-rumped agouti grows up to a size of 57.4 cm (1′ 11″).
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-rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina), also known as the golden-rumped agouti, orange-rumped agouti or Brazilian agouti, is a species of agouti from the family Dasyproctidae. It is native to northeastern South America, where found in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, northeastern Brazil, Trinidad and Tobago and Lesser Antilles. It has also been introduced to the Virgin Islands. Despite the alternative name Brazilian agouti, it is neither the only nor the most widespread species of agouti in Brazil. In Brazil all agoutis are often called “cutia” [kuˈtʃiɐ].It is found in a wide range of forests, including rainforest and secondary forest.
Other animals of the family Dasyproctidae
Red-rumped agouti is a member of the Dasyproctidae, as are these animals:
- Black agouti weighting around 3.5 kilograms (7.72 lbs)
- Red acouchi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Orinoco agouti weighting around 2.65 kilograms (5.84 lbs)
- Mexican agouti weighting around 5 kilograms (11.02 lbs)
- Kalinowski’s agouti weighting around 2.65 kilograms (5.84 lbs)
- Red acouchi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crested agouti with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Green acouchi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-rumped agouti with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Central American agouti with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red-rumped agouti
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Malayan civet
- Yellow-backed duiker
- Amazon river dolphin
- Serotine bat
- Proserpine rock-wallaby
- Thomas’s rope squirrel
- Mountain goat
- Sheep
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain
Animals that get as old as a Red-rumped agouti
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17.75 years:
- La Plata dolphin with 16 years
- Pygmy sperm whale with 17 years
- Tayra with 18 years
- Hector’s dolphin with 20 years
- Bohor reedbuck with 18 years
- Clouded leopard with 17 years
- Dall sheep with 16 years
- Giant eland with 16.17 years
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with 19 years
- Philippine tarsier with 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red-rumped agouti
What other animals weight around 3.02 kg (6.65 lbs)?
- Asian palm civet usually reaching 3.2 kgs (7.05 lbs)
- Booted macaque usually reaching 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Bald uakari usually reaching 3.42 kgs (7.54 lbs)
- South African springhare usually reaching 2.55 kgs (5.62 lbs)
- Southern tree hyrax usually reaching 2.71 kgs (5.97 lbs)
- Long-tailed pangolin usually reaching 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Flat-headed cat usually reaching 3.53 kgs (7.78 lbs)
- Rufous rat-kangaroo usually reaching 2.81 kgs (6.19 lbs)
- American hog-nosed skunk usually reaching 2.58 kgs (5.69 lbs)
- African brush-tailed porcupine usually reaching 2.88 kgs (6.35 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Red-rumped agouti
Also reaching around 57.4 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Barbary macaque gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- White-tailed mongoose gets as big as 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Bonnet macaque gets as big as 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- King colobus gets as big as 62.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Geoffroy’s cat gets as big as 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Arctic hare gets as big as 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Red-shanked douc gets as big as 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Western red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Guatemalan black howler gets as big as 56.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Marsh mongoose gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)