How many baby Smooth-coated otters are in a litter?
A Smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 63 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 285 grams (0.63 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Lutrogale). An adult Smooth-coated otter grows up to a size of 78.8 cm (2′ 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 smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) is an otter species occurring in most of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, with a disjunct population in Iraq. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1996 and is threatened by habitat loss, pollution of wetlands and poaching for the illegal wildlife trade. As its name indicates, its fur is smooth and shorter than that of other otter species.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
Smooth-coated otter is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- American hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- African clawless otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Malayan weasel with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-bellied weasel weighting only 264 grams
- Lesser grison becoming 7.25 years old
- Hairy-nosed otter weighting around 5.97 kilograms (13.16 lbs)
- Eastern spotted skunk with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Least weasel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- American marten with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Indonesian mountain weasel weighting only 466 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Smooth-coated otter
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Polynesian rat
- Aztec mouse
- Père David’s mole
- Salt marsh harvest mouse
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa
- Bailey’s pocket mouse
- Sumichrast’s harvest mouse
- Creeping vole
- Smoky white-toothed shrew
- Oryzomys couesi
Animals that get as old as a Smooth-coated otter
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- Allied rock-wallaby with 13 years
- Celebes crested macaque with 18 years
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with 12 years
- Goeldi’s marmoset with 17.83 years
- Royal antelope with 14 years
- Salt’s dik-dik with 14 years
- Arctic fox with 15 years
- Maxwell’s duiker with 12.25 years
- Ring-tailed vontsira with 13.17 years
- Lowland paca with 16 years
Animals with the same weight as a Smooth-coated otter
What other animals weight around 8.96 kg (19.74 lbs)?
- Pygmy hog usually reaching 7.92 kgs (17.46 lbs)
- Guatemalan black howler usually reaching 7.19 kgs (15.85 lbs)
- Pudú usually reaching 9.61 kgs (21.19 lbs)
- Nilgiri langur usually reaching 10.6 kgs (23.37 lbs)
- Patagonian mara usually reaching 8.03 kgs (17.7 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur usually reaching 7.39 kgs (16.29 lbs)
- Cape grysbok usually reaching 10.47 kgs (23.08 lbs)
- Maxwell’s duiker usually reaching 8.44 kgs (18.61 lbs)
- American badger usually reaching 7.84 kgs (17.28 lbs)
- Japanese macaque usually reaching 10.11 kgs (22.29 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Smooth-coated otter
Also reaching around 78.8 cm (2′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Eurasian otter gets as big as 68.9 cm (2′ 4″)
- Eastern grey kangaroo gets as big as 87.7 cm (2′ 11″)
- Dingiso gets as big as 67.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Siberian musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- African golden cat gets as big as 79.9 cm (2′ 8″)
- Aardwolf gets as big as 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Patas monkey gets as big as 66.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Sulawesi palm civet gets as big as 68.9 cm (2′ 4″)
- Marine otter gets as big as 67.8 cm (2′ 3″)
- Hog badger gets as big as 69.2 cm (2′ 4″)