How many baby Side-striped jackals are in a litter?
A Side-striped jackal (Canis adustus) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 65 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 36.78 kg (81.08 lbs) and measure 1 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Canidae family (genus: Canis). An adult Side-striped jackal grows up to a size of 74.7 cm (2′ 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 side-striped jackal (Canis adustus or Lupulella adusta) is a canine native to Central and southern Africa. Unlike the smaller black-backed jackal which dwells in open plains, the side-striped jackal primarily dwells in woodland and scrub areas.
Other animals of the family Canidae
Side-striped jackal is a member of the Canidae, as are these animals:
- Bat-eared fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Red wolf with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Falkland Islands wolf raching a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Fennec fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Raccoon dog with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Kit fox with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Rüppell’s fox with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared dog becoming 11 years old
- Dhole with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Pampas fox with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Side-striped jackal
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Darwin’s leaf-eared mouse
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo
- White-footed mouse
- Giant forest hog
- San Joaquin pocket mouse
- Dice’s cottontail
- Bank vole
- Eastern cottontail
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil
- White-nosed coati
Animals that get as old as a Side-striped jackal
Other animals that usually reach the age of 11.42 years:
- Long-footed treeshrew with 12 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- European hare with 12 years
- Rock cavy with 11 years
- Greater bamboo lemur with 12 years
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with 10.5 years
- Leadbeater’s possum with 11 years
- Black duiker with 10.17 years
- American red squirrel with 12 years
- Hamlyn’s monkey with 13.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Side-striped jackal
What other animals weight around 10.4 kg (22.92 lbs)?
- Pennant’s colobus usually reaching 9.16 kgs (20.19 lbs)
- King colobus usually reaching 8.7 kgs (19.18 lbs)
- African civet usually reaching 12.09 kgs (26.65 lbs)
- Assam macaque usually reaching 8.55 kgs (18.85 lbs)
- Caracal usually reaching 11.98 kgs (26.41 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus usually reaching 8.87 kgs (19.55 lbs)
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 8.98 kgs (19.8 lbs)
- Sulawesi bear cuscus usually reaching 10 kgs (22.05 lbs)
- Ground pangolin usually reaching 11.92 kgs (26.28 lbs)
- Steenbok usually reaching 11.64 kgs (25.66 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Side-striped jackal
Also reaching around 74.7 cm (2′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Chimpanzee gets as big as 79.6 cm (2′ 8″)
- Malayan civet gets as big as 65.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Short-eared dog gets as big as 83.3 cm (2′ 9″)
- King colobus gets as big as 62.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Maxwell’s duiker gets as big as 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Proboscis monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Collared mangabey gets as big as 66 cm (2′ 2″)
- Thomson’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Indri gets as big as 73.4 cm (2′ 5″)
- North American river otter gets as big as 68.5 cm (2′ 3″)