How many baby Speke’s pectinators are in a litter?
A Speke’s pectinator (Pectinator spekei) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 618 grams (1.36 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Ctenodactylidae family (genus: Pectinator). An adult Speke’s pectinator grows up to a size of 88.6 cm (2′ 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.
Speke’s pectinator (Pectinator spekei) or Speke’s gundi, is a species of rodent in the family Ctenodactylidae. It is monotypic within the genus Pectinator. It is found in Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland, and rocky areas.
Other animals of the family Ctenodactylidae
Speke’s pectinator is a member of the Ctenodactylidae, as are these animals:
- Common gundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Mzab gundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Val’s gundi with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Felou gundi with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Speke’s pectinator
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Lemur-like ringtail possum
- Collared mangabey
- Horsfield’s tarsier
- Orange leaf-nosed bat
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Coppery ringtail possum
- Caspian seal
- Bactrian camel
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle
- Atlantic bamboo rat
Animals that get as old as a Speke’s pectinator
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Cape gray mongoose with 8.67 years
- Red acouchi with 10 years
- Greater bilby with 10 years
- Bengal fox with 10 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 10.08 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 10.08 years
- Greater musky fruit bat with 8 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with 12 years
- Horsfield’s tarsier with 12 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with 8 years
Animals with the same weight as a Speke’s pectinator
What other animals weight around 169 grams (0.37 lbs)?
- Mohol bushbaby weighting 193 grams
- Lesser mole-rat weighting 188 grams
- White-footed rabbit-rat weighting 200 grams
- Mottled tuco-tuco weighting 192 grams
- Perny’s long-nosed squirrel weighting 199 grams
- Gray tree rat weighting 150 grams
- Hairless bat weighting 169 grams
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel weighting 160 grams
- Altiplano chinchilla mouse weighting 170 grams
- Bolivian chinchilla rat weighting 158 grams