How many baby Southern tree hyraxs are in a litter?
A Southern tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax arboreus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 229 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 57 kg (125.66 lbs) and measure 0.4 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Procaviidae family (genus: Dendrohyrax). An adult Southern tree hyrax grows up to a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 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 tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax arboreus) or also known as the southern tree dassie is a species of mammal in the family Procaviidae. The southern tree hyrax is mainly found in the south central eastern side of Africa.
Other animals of the family Procaviidae
Southern tree hyrax is a member of the Procaviidae, as are these animals:
- Heterohyrax antineae becoming 12 years old
- Rock hyrax with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern tree hyrax becoming 10 years old
- Western tree hyrax with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Southern tree hyrax
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Shiny guinea pig
- Caspian seal
- Painted bat
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Pudú
- Margay
- Silvery lutung
- Red-flanked duiker
- Yellow baboon
- Sulawesi rousette
Animals that get as old as a Southern tree hyrax
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12.25 years:
- Red acouchi with 10 years
- Myotis vivesi with 10 years
- Banded mongoose with 12 years
- Hispaniolan solenodon with 11.33 years
- Bengal fox with 10 years
- Pampas fox with 13.67 years
- Common dwarf mongoose with 10.92 years
- Capybara with 12 years
- Zebra duiker with 12.17 years
- Cape ground squirrel with 13 years
Animals with the same weight as a Southern tree hyrax
What other animals weight around 3.18 kg (7 lbs)?
- Ethiopian highland hare usually reaching 2.77 kgs (6.11 lbs)
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 2.61 kgs (5.75 lbs)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit usually reaching 3 kgs (6.61 lbs)
- White-footed saki usually reaching 2.8 kgs (6.17 lbs)
- Cape fox usually reaching 2.92 kgs (6.44 lbs)
- Red-rumped agouti usually reaching 3.02 kgs (6.66 lbs)
- Owston’s palm civet usually reaching 3.27 kgs (7.21 lbs)
- White-nosed saki usually reaching 2.8 kgs (6.17 lbs)
- White-throated guenon usually reaching 3.44 kgs (7.58 lbs)
- Cat usually reaching 2.88 kgs (6.35 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Southern tree hyrax
Also reaching around 49.9 cm (1′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Sable gets as big as 45.1 cm (1′ 6″)
- Natal red rock hare gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Swamp rabbit gets as big as 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Brazilian porcupine gets as big as 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Marsh mongoose gets as big as 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Banded linsang gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Verreaux’s sifaka gets as big as 47.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Silky cuscus gets as big as 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Long-nosed echymipera gets as big as 45.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Vancouver Island marmot gets as big as 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)