How many baby Siberian weasels are in a litter?
A Siberian weasel (Mustela sibirica) usually gives birth to around 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 30 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 9 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 5 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Mustela). An adult Siberian weasel grows up to a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″).
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 Siberian weasel (Mustela sibirica) is a medium-sized weasel native to Asia, where it is widely distributed and inhabits various forest habitats and open areas. It is therefore listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
Siberian weasel is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- Marine otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- European badger with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Palawan stink badger weighting around 2.5 kilograms (5.51 lbs)
- Eurasian otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- European mink with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Sunda stink badger weighting around 2.5 kilograms (5.51 lbs)
- Honey badger with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Least weasel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Spotted-necked otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hooded skunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Siberian weasel
Those animals also give birth to 6 babies at once:
- Uinta chipmunk
- Flat-haired mouse
- Townsend’s pocket gopher
- Long-tailed weasel
- Brush-tailed phascogale
- Woolly mouse opossum
- Seven-banded armadillo
- Northern quoll
- Flat-headed vole
- Gray leaf-eared mouse
Animals that get as old as a Siberian weasel
Other animals that usually reach the age of 8.83 years:
- Florida mouse with 7.33 years
- Cape fox with 10 years
- Southern tamandua with 9 years
- White-tailed jackrabbit with 8 years
- Red-tailed chipmunk with 8 years
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with 8 years
- Eastern cottontail with 9 years
- Maned rat with 7.5 years
- Greater musky fruit bat with 8 years
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with 10.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Siberian weasel
What other animals weight around 531 grams (1.17 lbs)?
- Giant pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- Golden lion tamarin weighting 593 grams
- Beecroft’s flying squirrel weighting 479 grams
- New Guinean quoll weighting 611 grams
- Squirrel-toothed rat weighting 511 grams
- Hispid pocket gopher weighting 499 grams
- Sunda flying fox weighting 466 grams
- Pygmy rabbit weighting 437 grams
- New Guinea waterside rat weighting 526 grams
- Kashmir flying squirrel weighting 510 grams
Animals with the same size as a Siberian weasel
Also reaching around 30.6 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Eastern barred bandicoot gets as big as 32.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Eastern quoll gets as big as 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- European polecat gets as big as 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Tapeti gets as big as 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- New Britain water rat gets as big as 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Bronze quoll gets as big as 35.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Malagasy giant rat gets as big as 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Arctic ground squirrel gets as big as 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Red-handed tamarin gets as big as 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Weyland ringtail possum gets as big as 31 cm (1′ 1″)