How many baby Slender mongooses are in a litter?
A Slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 62 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 20 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Herpestidae family (genus: Galerella). An adult Slender mongoose grows up to a size of 33 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 slender mongoose (Galerella sanguinea), also known as the black-tipped mongoose or the black-tailed mongoose, is a very common species of mongoose of sub-Saharan Africa.
Other animals of the family Herpestidae
Slender mongoose is a member of the Herpestidae, as are these animals:
- Namaqua slender mongoose weighting only 750 grams
- Cape gray mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Banded mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Stripe-necked mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Meller’s mongoose with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown-tailed mongoose becoming 4.75 years old
- Ring-tailed vontsira with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed mongoose weighting around 3 kilograms (6.61 lbs)
- Common kusimanse with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Slender mongoose
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Smith’s bush squirrel
- Eastern harvest mouse
- Spotted linsang
- Murree vole
- Lesser bamboo rat
- Clara’s echymipera
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk
- Armored rat
- Long-tailed mouse
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat
Animals that get as old as a Slender mongoose
Other animals that usually reach the age of 6 years:
- Northern grasshopper mouse with 5 years
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with 6.75 years
- Rufous elephant shrew with 6 years
- Scaly-tailed possum with 6 years
- Moonrat with 7 years
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with 6 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with 6 years
- Long-tailed weasel with 7.08 years
- Saharan striped polecat with 5 years
- Central African oyan with 5.33 years
Animals with the same weight as a Slender mongoose
What other animals weight around 530 grams (1.17 lbs)?
- Gray-backed sportive lemur weighting 506 grams
- White-footed sportive lemur weighting 600 grams
- Bismarck giant rat weighting 613 grams
- Weyland ringtail possum weighting 458 grams
- Broad-faced potoroo weighting 499 grams
- Beecroft’s flying squirrel weighting 479 grams
- Eastern lowland olingo weighting 620 grams
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose weighting 485 grams
- Numbat weighting 517 grams
- Mountain ground squirrel weighting 625 grams
Animals with the same size as a Slender mongoose
Also reaching around 33 cm (1′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Kodkod gets as big as 38.8 cm (1′ 4″)
- Woodlark cuscus gets as big as 37.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Great Key Island giant rat gets as big as 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat gets as big as 38.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Rakali gets as big as 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Guianan squirrel monkey gets as big as 32.2 cm (1′ 1″)
- Cuban solenodon gets as big as 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- American marten gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Reclusive ringtail possum gets as big as 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)