How many baby Spotted-necked otters are in a litter?
A Spotted-necked otter (Lutra maculicollis) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 59 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 285 grams (0.63 lbs) and measure 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Lutra). An adult Spotted-necked otter grows up to a size of 59.7 cm (2′ 0″).
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-necked otter (Hydrictis maculicollis), or speckle-throated otter, is an otter native to sub-Saharan Africa.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
Spotted-necked otter is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- Asian small-clawed otter with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Smooth-coated otter with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Giant otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Marbled polecat with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Indonesian mountain weasel weighting only 466 grams
- American hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy spotted skunk with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese marten weighting around 1 kilograms (2.2 lbs)
- Hog badger with 3 babies per pregnancy
- North American river otter with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Spotted-necked otter
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Duthie’s golden mole
- Jamaican coney
- Striped polecat
- American black bear
- Plantain squirrel
- Northern palm squirrel
- Common gundi
- Golden spiny mouse
- Black-tailed mouse
- Black-headed marmoset
Animals with the same weight as a Spotted-necked otter
What other animals weight around 4.19 kg (9.24 lbs)?
- Salt’s dik-dik usually reaching 3.4 kgs (7.5 lbs)
- Campbell’s mona monkey usually reaching 3.63 kgs (8 lbs)
- Southern tamandua usually reaching 4.73 kgs (10.43 lbs)
- Kirk’s dik-dik usually reaching 4.8 kgs (10.58 lbs)
- Grivet usually reaching 3.86 kgs (8.51 lbs)
- Masked palm civet usually reaching 4.3 kgs (9.48 lbs)
- Coquerel’s sifaka usually reaching 4.19 kgs (9.24 lbs)
- Flat-headed cat usually reaching 3.53 kgs (7.78 lbs)
- Yellow-bellied marmot usually reaching 3.71 kgs (8.18 lbs)
- Golden-crowned sifaka usually reaching 3.53 kgs (7.78 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Spotted-necked otter
Also reaching around 59.7 cm (2′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Preuss’s red colobus gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- European hare gets as big as 52.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Black-footed mongoose gets as big as 61.3 cm (2′ 1″)
- Honey badger gets as big as 68.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Black-crested Sumatran langur gets as big as 50.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Tana River mangabey gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- White-tailed mongoose gets as big as 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Agile wallaby gets as big as 64.6 cm (2′ 2″)
- Capped langur gets as big as 57.5 cm (1′ 11″)