How many baby Servaline genets are in a litter?
A Servaline genet (Genetta servalina) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 77 grams (0.17 lbs) and measure 14.6 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Genetta). An adult Servaline genet grows up to a size of 49.4 cm (1′ 8″).
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 servaline genet (Genetta servalina) is a genet species native to Central Africa. As it is widely distributed and considered common, it is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Other animals of the family Viverridae
Servaline genet is a member of the Viverridae, as are these animals:
- Otter civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hose’s palm civet raching a size of 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
- Small-toothed palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Aquatic genet weighting around 1.65 kilograms (3.64 lbs)
- Abyssinian genet weighting around 1.41 kilograms (3.11 lbs)
- Sulawesi palm civet weighting around 5.15 kilograms (11.35 lbs)
- Spotted linsang with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Malagasy civet with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Central African oyan with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Johnston’s genet weighting around 2.23 kilograms (4.92 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Servaline genet
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Tamaraw
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat
- Northern brushtail possum
- Sumatran rhinoceros
- Lesser horseshoe bat
- Raffray’s bandicoot
- Indian hog deer
- Small bent-winged bat
- Blue wildebeest
- Mohol bushbaby
Animals that get as old as a Servaline genet
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17 years:
- Yellow-backed duiker with 17.25 years
- Klipspringer with 17.75 years
- European polecat with 14 years
- Tricolored bat with 15 years
- Red-rumped agouti with 17.75 years
- Dall sheep with 16 years
- Nyala with 16 years
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with 17.08 years
- Lowland paca with 16 years
- Lowland paca with 16 years
Animals with the same weight as a Servaline genet
What other animals weight around 1.24 kg (2.74 lbs)?
- Angolan talapoin usually reaching 1.25 kgs (2.76 lbs)
- Eastern lowland olingo usually reaching 1.24 kgs (2.73 lbs)
- Clara’s echymipera usually reaching 1.2 kgs (2.65 lbs)
- Ring-tailed cat usually reaching 1.02 kgs (2.25 lbs)
- Montane guinea pig usually reaching 1 kgs (2.2 lbs)
- Long-nosed echymipera usually reaching 1.05 kgs (2.31 lbs)
- Gambian pouched rat usually reaching 1.27 kgs (2.8 lbs)
- Short-tailed mongoose usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Grizzled giant squirrel usually reaching 1.33 kgs (2.93 lbs)
- Potto usually reaching 1.08 kgs (2.38 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Servaline genet
Also reaching around 49.4 cm (1′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Natal red rock hare gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tufted ground squirrel gets as big as 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- Angolan genet gets as big as 47.3 cm (1′ 7″)
- South American coati gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Short-tailed mongoose gets as big as 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Black-footed ferret gets as big as 39.7 cm (1′ 4″)
- Liberian mongoose gets as big as 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Malayan porcupine gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)
- Coypu gets as big as 52.1 cm (1′ 9″)
- Cape fox gets as big as 53.4 cm (1′ 10″)