How many baby Rock hyraxs are in a litter?
A Rock hyrax (Procavia capensis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 231 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 203 grams (0.45 lbs) and measure 19.1 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Procaviidae family (genus: Procavia). An adult Rock hyrax grows up to a size of 46.7 cm (1′ 7″).
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 rock hyrax (; Procavia capensis), also called Cape hyrax, rock rabbit, and (in the Bible) coney, is a medium-sized terrestrial mammal native to Africa and the Middle East. Commonly referred to in South Africa as the dassie (/dasiː/), it is one of the five living species of the order Hyracoidea, and the only one in the genus Procavia.Rock hyraxes weigh between 4 kilograms (9 lb) and 5 kilograms (11 lb), and have short ears and tail.The rock hyrax is found at elevations up to 4,200 metres (13,800 ft) in habitats with rock crevices allowing it to escape from predators. It is the only extant terrestrial afrotherian in the Middle East. Hyraxes typically live in groups of 10–80 animals, and forage as a group. It has been reported to use sentries to warn of the approach of predators. Having incomplete thermoregulation, it is most active in the morning and evening, although its activity pattern varies substantially with season and climate.Over most of its range, the rock hyrax is not endangered, and in some areas is considered a minor pest. In Ethiopia, Israel and Jordan, it is a reservoir of the leishmaniasis parasite.Along with other hyrax species and the manatee, this species is the most closely related to the elephant.
Other animals of the family Procaviidae
Rock hyrax is a member of the Procaviidae, as are these animals:
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern tree hyrax becoming 10 years old
- Heterohyrax antineae becoming 12 years old
- Southern tree hyrax with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western tree hyrax with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Rock hyrax
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- African clawless otter
- Greater bamboo bat
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Greater stick-nest rat
- Black-tufted marmoset
- Turbo shrew
- Banana climbing mouse
- Western barbastelle
- Banded mongoose
- Stirton’s deer mouse
Animals that get as old as a Rock hyrax
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14 years:
- Hispaniolan solenodon with 11.33 years
- Ground cuscus with 12 years
- Common duiker with 14.25 years
- Spectral tarsier with 12 years
- Santarem marmoset with 15 years
- European badger with 16.17 years
- Lowland paca with 16 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- Javan warty pig with 14 years
- Thomson’s gazelle with 15.17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Rock hyrax
What other animals weight around 2.95 kg (6.51 lbs)?
- Booted macaque usually reaching 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby usually reaching 3.5 kgs (7.72 lbs)
- Hispid hare usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
- Natal red rock hare usually reaching 2.42 kgs (5.34 lbs)
- Cozumel raccoon usually reaching 2.96 kgs (6.53 lbs)
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 2.6 kgs (5.73 lbs)
- Kaapori capuchin usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- Western tree hyrax usually reaching 3.18 kgs (7.01 lbs)
- White-throated guenon usually reaching 3.44 kgs (7.58 lbs)
- Palawan stink badger usually reaching 2.5 kgs (5.51 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Rock hyrax
Also reaching around 46.7 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Telefomin cuscus gets as big as 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- David’s echymipera gets as big as 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Red-bellied lemur gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Plains viscacha gets as big as 52.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Scrub hare gets as big as 49.5 cm (1′ 8″)
- Yellow-bellied marmot gets as big as 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Servaline genet gets as big as 49.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Coypu gets as big as 52.1 cm (1′ 9″)
- Pale fox gets as big as 43 cm (1′ 5″)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby gets as big as 52.5 cm (1′ 9″)