How many baby Saharan striped polecats are in a litter?
A Saharan striped polecat (Ictonyx libyca) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 37 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 341 grams (0.75 lbs) and measure 15.1 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Ictonyx). An adult Saharan striped polecat grows up to a size of 24.2 cm (0′ 10″).
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 Saharan striped polecat, also known as the Saharan striped weasel, Libyan striped weasel, and the North African striped weasel (Ictonyx libycus) is a species of mammal in the family Mustelidae. This animal is sometimes characterized as being a part of the genus Poecilictis, and its coloration resembles that of the striped polecat.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
Saharan striped polecat is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- Palawan stink badger weighting around 2.5 kilograms (5.51 lbs)
- Pygmy spotted skunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Greater grison with 1 babies per pregnancy
- American badger with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Stoat with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Steppe polecat with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Beech marten with 3 babies per pregnancy
- African striped weasel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern spotted skunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Neotropical otter with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Saharan striped polecat
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Eurasian otter
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
- Guyenne spiny rat
- Asian black bear
- Mzab gundi
- Tome’s spiny rat
- Lesser yellow bat
- Antelope jackrabbit
- Eastern barred bandicoot
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
Animals that get as old as a Saharan striped polecat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 5 years:
- Hispid cotton rat with 5.17 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with 4.75 years
- Southeastern myotis with 6 years
- Plains rat with 5.58 years
- European water vole with 5 years
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat with 5.17 years
- Dark kangaroo mouse with 5.42 years
- Southern long-nosed bat with 5 years
- Forest dormouse with 4 years
- Sand-colored soft-furred rat with 4 years
Animals with the same weight as a Saharan striped polecat
What other animals weight around 218 grams (0.48 lbs)?
- Golden Atlantic tree-rat weighting 243 grams
- Fire-footed rope squirrel weighting 243 grams
- Samar squirrel weighting 225 grams
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat weighting 215 grams
- San MartÃn Island woodrat weighting 240 grams
- Siberian zokor weighting 225 grams
- Annandale’s rat weighting 197 grams
- Vogelkop ringtail possum weighting 255 grams
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel weighting 199 grams
- Eastern rat weighting 230 grams
Animals with the same size as a Saharan striped polecat
Also reaching around 24.2 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Highland tuco-tuco gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- European hedgehog gets as big as 23.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Derby’s woolly opossum gets as big as 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Painted ringtail possum gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Unstriped ground squirrel gets as big as 22.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Richardson’s ground squirrel gets as big as 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat gets as big as 26.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 28.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Culion tree squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)