How many baby Southern white-breasted hedgehogs are in a litter?
A Southern white-breasted hedgehog (Erinaceus concolor) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 5 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 35 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 17 grams (0.04 lbs) and measure 5.4 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Erinaceidae family (genus: Erinaceus). An adult Southern white-breasted hedgehog grows up to a size of 23.1 cm (0′ 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 white-breasted hedgehog (Erinaceus concolor), sometimes referred to as white-bellied hedgehog or white-chested hedgehog, is a hedgehog of Southwestern Asia. It is very similar in lifestyle and appearance to the European hedgehog, but the former has a white spot on its chest. For a long time these two species were considered to be one. The northern white-breasted hedgehog of Eastern Europe and Russia was formerly recognized as a subspecies of the southern white-breasted hedgehog but newer investigations see both as different species. The southern white-breasted hedgehog and European hedgehog can hybridize.Unlike its European counterpart, the southern white-breasted hedgehog never digs dens. It prefers building grass nests in secluded places.
Other animals of the family Erinaceidae
Southern white-breasted hedgehog is a member of the Erinaceidae, as are these animals:
- Hugh’s hedgehog raching a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Hainan gymnure weighting only 58 grams
- Long-eared hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Podogymnura truei raching a size of 31.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Daurian hedgehog raching a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Desert hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Four-toed hedgehog with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Dinagat gymnure raching a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Shrew gymnure with 4 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Southern white-breasted hedgehog
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Oligoryzomys flavescens
- Pale field rat
- Narrow-nosed planigale
- White-tailed prairie dog
- Tiger quoll
- Middendorf’s vole
- Coyote
- Norway lemming
- Large vesper mouse
- Ural field mouse
Animals with the same weight as a Southern white-breasted hedgehog
What other animals weight around 690 grams (1.52 lbs)?
- Chiriqui pocket gopher weighting 650 grams
- Central Texas pocket gopher weighting 599 grams
- Livingstone’s fruit bat weighting 733 grams
- White-footed sportive lemur weighting 600 grams
- Black squirrel monkey weighting 784 grams
- Arctic ground squirrel weighting 747 grams
- Insular flying fox weighting 560 grams
- Brumback’s night monkey weighting 603 grams
- Western woolly lemur weighting 828 grams
- Yellow-bellied glider weighting 568 grams
Animals with the same size as a Southern white-breasted hedgehog
Also reaching around 23.1 cm (0′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Dusky-footed woodrat gets as big as 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Collie’s squirrel gets as big as 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel gets as big as 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat gets as big as 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Kinabalu squirrel gets as big as 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- American red squirrel gets as big as 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Rock squirrel gets as big as 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Pygmy ringtail possum gets as big as 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Eastern small-toothed rat gets as big as 24.2 cm (0′ 10″)