How many baby Southern tamanduas are in a litter?
A Southern tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 160 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Myrmecophagidae family (genus: Tamandua). An adult Southern tamandua grows up to a size of 56.1 cm (1′ 11″).
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 tamandua (Tamandua tetradactyla), also called the collared anteater or lesser anteater, is a species of anteater from South America. It is a solitary animal, found in many habitats from mature to highly disturbed secondary forests and arid savannas. It feeds on ants, termites, and bees. Its very strong fore claws can be used to break insect nests or to defend itself.
Other animals of the family Myrmecophagidae
Southern tamandua is a member of the Myrmecophagidae, as are these animals:
- Silky anteater with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant anteater with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern tamandua becoming 9.5 years old
Animals that share a litter size with Southern tamandua
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Malagasy civet
- Malayan tapir
- Papuan bandicoot
- Homo sapiens
- Davis’s round-eared bat
- Jentink’s duiker
- Felou gundi
- Broom hare
- Sumatran serow
- Mountain zebra
Animals that get as old as a Southern tamandua
Other animals that usually reach the age of 9 years:
- Asian small-clawed otter with 10.08 years
- Tasmanian devil with 8.17 years
- White-footed sportive lemur with 8.58 years
- Brown dorcopsis with 7.58 years
- Black-shouldered opossum with 7.83 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with 9.75 years
- Little pocket mouse with 8.25 years
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with 10.17 years
- Parma wallaby with 10 years
- Greater bilby with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Southern tamandua
What other animals weight around 4.73 kg (10.42 lbs)?
- Rothschild’s rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.55 kgs (10.03 lbs)
- Sulawesi palm civet usually reaching 5.15 kgs (11.35 lbs)
- Plains viscacha usually reaching 4.66 kgs (10.27 lbs)
- Hoary fox usually reaching 4.23 kgs (9.33 lbs)
- Six-banded armadillo usually reaching 4.76 kgs (10.49 lbs)
- Brazilian porcupine usually reaching 4.12 kgs (9.08 lbs)
- Bonnet macaque usually reaching 5 kgs (11.02 lbs)
- Spotted-necked otter usually reaching 4.19 kgs (9.24 lbs)
- Short-beaked echidna usually reaching 4.5 kgs (9.92 lbs)
- Big hairy armadillo usually reaching 4.46 kgs (9.83 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Southern tamandua
Also reaching around 56.1 cm (1′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Preuss’s red colobus gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- King colobus gets as big as 62.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Sarcophilus laniarius gets as big as 55.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Ground cuscus gets as big as 45.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Raccoon gets as big as 48.6 cm (1′ 8″)
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey gets as big as 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Giant forest genet gets as big as 57.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Hispid hare gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Zanzibar red colobus gets as big as 57.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Giant bandicoot gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)