How many baby Ring-tailed vontsiras are in a litter?
A Ring-tailed vontsira (Galidia elegans) 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 76 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 48 grams (0.11 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Herpestidae family (genus: Galidia). An adult Ring-tailed vontsira grows up to a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″).
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 ring-tailed vontsira, locally still known as the ring-tailed mongoose (Galidia elegans) is a euplerid in the subfamily Galidiinae, a carnivoran native to Madagascar.
Other animals of the family Herpestidae
Ring-tailed vontsira is a member of the Herpestidae, as are these animals:
- Yellow mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bushy-tailed mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Indian grey mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Banded mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Indian grey mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Pousargues’s mongoose with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Grandidier’s mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crab-eating mongoose with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Angolan slender mongoose weighting only 750 grams
- Cape gray mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Ring-tailed vontsira
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Jameson’s red rock hare
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat
- Mantled howler
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- Thomas’s rope squirrel
- Kob
- Gould’s long-eared bat
- Microcebus coquereli
- Peters’s flat-headed bat
Animals that get as old as a Ring-tailed vontsira
Other animals that usually reach the age of 13.17 years:
- Malayan civet with 12 years
- Salt’s dik-dik with 14 years
- Red brocket with 13.75 years
- Crab-eating fox with 11.5 years
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with 15 years
- Yellow mongoose with 15.17 years
- Weasel sportive lemur with 12 years
- African clawless otter with 11 years
- Coypu with 12 years
- Guinea pig with 14.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Ring-tailed vontsira
What other animals weight around 815 grams (1.8 lbs)?
- Black lion tamarin weighting 656 grams
- Cape gray mongoose weighting 791 grams
- Northern Amazon red squirrel weighting 700 grams
- Red-bellied titi weighting 962 grams
- Desert cottontail weighting 882 grams
- Western woolly lemur weighting 828 grams
- Brown titi weighting 851 grams
- Mountain cottontail weighting 803 grams
- American marten weighting 878 grams
- New England cottontail weighting 814 grams
Animals with the same size as a Ring-tailed vontsira
Also reaching around 35.2 cm (1′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Clara’s echymipera gets as big as 34.1 cm (1′ 2″)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel gets as big as 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Hooded skunk gets as big as 30.8 cm (1′ 1″)
- Short-tailed mongoose gets as big as 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Red giant flying squirrel gets as big as 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Sunda flying lemur gets as big as 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Black-tailed prairie dog gets as big as 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Indonesian mountain weasel gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Tufted ground squirrel gets as big as 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- Western barred bandicoot gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)