How many baby Sables are in a litter?
A Sable (Martes zibellina) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 31 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 8.9 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Martes). An adult Sable grows up to a size of 45.1 cm (1′ 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 sable (Martes zibellina) is a species of marten, a small omnivorous mammal primarily inhabiting the forest environments of Russia, from the Ural Mountains throughout Siberia, and northern Mongolia. Its habitat also borders eastern Kazakhstan, China, North Korea and Hokkaidō, Japan. Its range in the wild originally extended through European Russia to Poland and Scandinavia. Historically, it has been hunted for its highly valued dark brown or black fur, which remains a luxury good to this day. While hunting is still common in Russia, most fur on the market is now commercially farmed.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
Sable is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- American mink with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Giant otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Amazon weasel weighting only 268 grams
- American marten with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Smooth-coated otter with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Wolverine with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hooded skunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Burmese ferret-badger with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Marine otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Fisher (animal) with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Sable
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- South American coati
- Mount Kahuzi climbing mouse
- Middle East blind mole-rat
- Taiwanese brown-toothed shrew
- Hylaeamys megacephalus
- Irenomys
- Hairy-footed gerbil
- Broad-striped dasyure
- Crosse’s shrew
- Texas pocket gopher
Animals that get as old as a Sable
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- Small-toothed palm civet with 15.83 years
- Suni with 14 years
- Harbour porpoise with 15 years
- Argali with 15 years
- Red fox with 15 years
- European hare with 12 years
- Australian sea lion with 16 years
- European polecat with 14 years
- Common marmoset with 16.75 years
- Chinese goral with 17.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sable
What other animals weight around 1.17 kg (2.58 lbs)?
- Herbert River ringtail possum usually reaching 1.1 kgs (2.43 lbs)
- Sunda flying lemur usually reaching 1.11 kgs (2.45 lbs)
- Angolan talapoin usually reaching 1.25 kgs (2.76 lbs)
- Western quoll usually reaching 1.12 kgs (2.47 lbs)
- Black-footed cat usually reaching 1.36 kgs (3 lbs)
- Bengal slow loris usually reaching 1.14 kgs (2.51 lbs)
- Spotted linsang usually reaching 1.14 kgs (2.51 lbs)
- Plush-coated ringtail possum usually reaching 1.12 kgs (2.47 lbs)
- Common kusimanse usually reaching 1.39 kgs (3.06 lbs)
- Oncilla usually reaching 1.11 kgs (2.45 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sable
Also reaching around 45.1 cm (1′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Mentawai langur gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Indian grey mongoose gets as big as 39.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- De Brazza’s monkey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Monk saki gets as big as 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Palawan stink badger gets as big as 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Lesser grison gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Malayan porcupine gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Stein’s cuscus gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Abyssinian genet gets as big as 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Rüppell’s fox gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)