How many baby Southern mountain cavys are in a litter?
A Southern mountain cavy (Microcavia australis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.With 4 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 8 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 55 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 30 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 9.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Caviidae family (genus: Microcavia). An adult Southern mountain cavy grows up to a size of 20 cm (0′ 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 southern mountain cavy (Microcavia australis) is a species of South American rodent in the family Caviidae.
Other animals of the family Caviidae
Southern mountain cavy is a member of the Caviidae, as are these animals:
- Greater guinea pig weighting only 460 grams
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Andean mountain cavy with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Montane guinea pig with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Shipton’s mountain cavy with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Guinea pig with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Chacoan mara with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rock cavy with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Shiny guinea pig with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brazilian guinea pig with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Southern mountain cavy
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Highveld gerbil
- Canada lynx
- Glacier rat
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse
- Target rat
- Layard’s palm squirrel
- Blanford’s rat
- Djoongari
- Collie’s squirrel
- Kimberley rock rat
Animals with the same weight as a Southern mountain cavy
What other animals weight around 261 grams (0.58 lbs)?
- Lombok flying fox weighting 256 grams
- Royle’s pika weighting 260 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 302 grams
- Deppe’s squirrel weighting 250 grams
- Shiny guinea pig weighting 283 grams
- Colombian spiny rat weighting 312 grams
- Saharan striped polecat weighting 218 grams
- Smoky flying squirrel weighting 251 grams
- Spiny Ceram rat weighting 306 grams
- Siberian zokor weighting 225 grams
Animals with the same size as a Southern mountain cavy
Also reaching around 20 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel gets as big as 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Himalayan field rat gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bolivian tuco-tuco gets as big as 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Maxomys baeodon gets as big as 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindanao treeshrew gets as big as 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum gets as big as 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk gets as big as 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Nimba otter shrew gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- White-throated woodrat gets as big as 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat gets as big as 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)