How many baby Southern viscachas are in a litter?
A Southern viscacha (Lagidium viscacia) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 129 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 259 grams (0.57 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Chinchillidae family (genus: Lagidium). An adult Southern viscacha grows up to a size of 34.2 cm (1′ 2″).
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 viscacha (Lagidium viscacia) is a species of viscacha, a rodent in the family Chinchillidae found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. It is a colonial animal living in small groups in rocky mountain areas. It has long ears and hind legs and resembles a rabbit in appearance apart from its long, bushy tail, but is not a lagomorph.
Other animals of the family Chinchillidae
Southern viscacha is a member of the Chinchillidae, as are these animals:
- Northern viscacha with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Wolffsohn’s viscacha weighting around 2.68 kilograms (5.91 lbs)
- Long-tailed chinchilla with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Plains viscacha with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-tailed chinchilla with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Southern viscacha
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Antillean fruit-eating bat
- Kitti’s hog-nosed bat
- Northern olingo
- Harp seal
- Venezuelan red howler
- Indian flying fox
- Barasingha
- Ground cuscus
- Lumholtz’s tree-kangaroo
- Diademed sifaka
Animals with the same weight as a Southern viscacha
What other animals weight around 1.54 kg (3.4 lbs)?
- Emin’s pouched rat usually reaching 1.28 kgs (2.82 lbs)
- Mongoose lemur usually reaching 1.77 kgs (3.9 lbs)
- Short-tailed mongoose usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Rufous hare-wallaby usually reaching 1.41 kgs (3.11 lbs)
- Tree pangolin usually reaching 1.54 kgs (3.4 lbs)
- Grizzled giant squirrel usually reaching 1.33 kgs (2.93 lbs)
- Manchurian hare usually reaching 1.84 kgs (4.06 lbs)
- Indian grey mongoose usually reaching 1.3 kgs (2.87 lbs)
- Black-footed cat usually reaching 1.36 kgs (3 lbs)
- Greater grison usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)