How many baby Spotted linsangs are in a litter?
A Spotted linsang (Prionodon pardicolor) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 40 grams (0.09 lbs) and measure 18.3 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Viverridae family (genus: Prionodon). An adult Spotted linsang grows up to a size of 35.4 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 spotted linsang (Prionodon pardicolor) is a linsang, a tree-dwelling carnivorous mammal, found throughout much of Southeast Asia. It is widely, though usually sparsely, recorded, and listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List.
Other animals of the family Viverridae
Spotted linsang is a member of the Viverridae, as are these animals:
- Fossa (animal) with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Central African oyan with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Common genet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Haussa genet weighting around 1.4 kilograms (3.09 lbs)
- Binturong with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Hose’s palm civet raching a size of 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
- Otter civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Sulawesi palm civet weighting around 5.15 kilograms (11.35 lbs)
- Golden palm civet with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Crested servaline genet with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Spotted linsang
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Northern yellow bat
- Somali serotine
- White-sided jackrabbit
- Brown hyena
- Golden-backed tree-rat
- Sikkim mountain vole
- Turbo shrew
- Peters’s climbing rat
- Indomalayan pencil-tailed tree mouse
- Edward’s swamp rat
Animals with the same weight as a Spotted linsang
What other animals weight around 1.14 kg (2.52 lbs)?
- Hoffmanns’s titi usually reaching 1.07 kgs (2.36 lbs)
- Hooded skunk usually reaching 1.1 kgs (2.43 lbs)
- Greater bilby usually reaching 1.23 kgs (2.71 lbs)
- Hershkovitz’s titi weighting 992 grams
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk weighting 960 grams
- Rothschild’s cuscus usually reaching 1.37 kgs (3.02 lbs)
- Emin’s pouched rat usually reaching 1.28 kgs (2.82 lbs)
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox usually reaching 1.09 kgs (2.4 lbs)
- Cinereus ringtail possum weighting 977 grams
- Black-headed night monkey usually reaching 1.06 kgs (2.34 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Spotted linsang
Also reaching around 35.4 cm (1′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Northern olingo gets as big as 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Black bearded saki gets as big as 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Clara’s echymipera gets as big as 34.1 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black-capped squirrel monkey gets as big as 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Eastern cottontail gets as big as 37.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Ruddy mongoose gets as big as 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Long-footed potoroo gets as big as 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Mexican prairie dog gets as big as 34.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Golden-backed uakari gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)