How many baby Short-tailed gymnures are in a litter?
A Short-tailed gymnure (Hylomys suillus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 32 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 517 grams (1.14 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Erinaceidae family (genus: Hylomys). An adult Short-tailed gymnure grows up to a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 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 short-tailed gymnure (Hylomys suillus) is a small mammal from the family of the Erinaceidae. The scientific name of the species is first published by Salomon Müller in 1840.
Other animals of the family Erinaceidae
Short-tailed gymnure is a member of the Erinaceidae, as are these animals:
- Long-eared hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Amur hedgehog raching a size of 24.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Brandt’s hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Brandt’s hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Indian hedgehog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Southern African hedgehog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- European hedgehog with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Hainan gymnure weighting only 58 grams
- Shrew gymnure with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Somali hedgehog raching a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals that share a litter size with Short-tailed gymnure
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Radde’s shrew
- Red-legged sun squirrel
- Eastern harvest mouse
- Pipistrellus mimus
- Black-tailed jackrabbit
- Littledale’s whistling rat
- Jaguarundi
- African yellow bat
- Dark-footed mouse shrew
- Greater Egyptian jerboa
Animals with the same weight as a Short-tailed gymnure
What other animals weight around 60 grams (0.13 lbs)?
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat weighting 57 grams
- Murree vole weighting 52 grams
- Dibbler weighting 72 grams
- Panamint chipmunk weighting 51 grams
- Mongolian gerbil weighting 57 grams
- Buffy broad-nosed bat weighting 50 grams
- Link rat weighting 57 grams
- Angolan rousette weighting 67 grams
- Gansu pika weighting 69 grams
- Dusky antechinus weighting 62 grams
Animals with the same size as a Short-tailed gymnure
Also reaching around 13.2 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Painted spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sonoma chipmunk gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Highland brush mouse gets as big as 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tschudi’s slender opossum gets as big as 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Guam flying fox gets as big as 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western rock elephant shrew gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)