How many baby Southern hairy-nosed wombats are in a litter?
A Southern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 20 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 110 grams (0.24 lbs) and measure 13.3 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Vombatidae family (genus: Lasiorhinus). An adult Southern hairy-nosed wombat grows up to a size of 85.5 cm (2′ 10″).
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 southern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus latifrons) is one of three extant species of wombats. It is found in scattered areas of semiarid scrub and mallee from the eastern Nullarbor Plain to the New South Wales border area. It is the smallest of all three wombat species. The young often do not survive dry seasons. It is the state animal of South Australia.Among the oldest southern hairy-nosed wombats ever documented were a male and a female from Brookfield Zoo just outside Chicago. Their names were Carver, who lived to be 34, and his mother, Vicky, who lived to be 24. In South Australia in 2010, a domesticated wombat named Wally was also reported as having reached the age of 34. Hamlet, a wombat at the Toronto Zoo, similarly died at age 34.
Other animals of the family Vombatidae
Southern hairy-nosed wombat is a member of the Vombatidae, as are these animals:
- Common wombat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Southern hairy-nosed wombat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- California leaf-nosed bat
- Typical vlei rat
- Cuban solenodon
- Guatemalan black howler
- Shining thicket rat
- Big hairy armadillo
- Günther’s dik-dik
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat
- Goldman’s woodrat
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis
Animals that get as old as a Southern hairy-nosed wombat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 24.5 years:
- Coyote with 21.83 years
- Southern elephant seal with 23 years
- Red-shanked douc with 25 years
- Gayal with 26.17 years
- Cotton-top tamarin with 23.08 years
- Dusky leaf monkey with 25 years
- East African oryx with 20 years
- Guianan squirrel monkey with 27 years
- Sunda slow loris with 26.5 years
- Domestic yak with 22.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Southern hairy-nosed wombat
What other animals weight around 26.18 kg (57.72 lbs)?
- Arabian tahr usually reaching 22.06 kgs (48.63 lbs)
- Collared peccary usually reaching 21.19 kgs (46.72 lbs)
- Roe deer usually reaching 22.45 kgs (49.49 lbs)
- Giant anteater usually reaching 28.72 kgs (63.32 lbs)
- Pyrenean chamois usually reaching 30 kgs (66.14 lbs)
- Mountain gazelle usually reaching 21.25 kgs (46.85 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.91 kgs (50.51 lbs)
- Przewalski’s gazelle usually reaching 27.5 kgs (60.63 lbs)
- Red-fronted gazelle usually reaching 27 kgs (59.52 lbs)
- Dibatag usually reaching 28.05 kgs (61.84 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Southern hairy-nosed wombat
Also reaching around 85.5 cm (2′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Black musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Aardwolf gets as big as 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Maxwell’s duiker gets as big as 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Red forest duiker gets as big as 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
- Large Indian civet gets as big as 81.9 cm (2′ 9″)
- Eurasian lynx gets as big as 85.4 cm (2′ 10″)
- Indian muntjac gets as big as 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Pygathrix bieti gets as big as 71.8 cm (2′ 5″)
- Chinese mountain cat gets as big as 78.6 cm (2′ 7″)
- Golden jackal gets as big as 83 cm (2′ 9″)