How many baby Spotted-necked otters are in a litter?
A Spotted-necked otter (Hydrictis 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 693 grams (1.53 lbs) and measure 6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Hydrictis). An adult Spotted-necked otter grows up to a size of 59.4 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:
- Hairy-nosed otter weighting around 5.97 kilograms (13.16 lbs)
- Sunda stink badger weighting around 2.5 kilograms (5.51 lbs)
- Least weasel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Stoat with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Saharan striped polecat with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Neotropical otter with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Smooth-coated otter with 3 babies per pregnancy
- European mink with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Palawan stink badger weighting around 2.5 kilograms (5.51 lbs)
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Spotted-necked otter
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Striped hyena
- Greater Egyptian jerboa
- Guyenne spiny rat
- Brown mouse lemur
- Low’s squirrel
- Collared tuco-tuco
- Mozambique thicket rat
- Pronghorn
- Greater bilby
- Striped polecat
Animals with the same weight as a Spotted-necked otter
What other animals weight around 4.18 kg (9.22 lbs)?
- Toque macaque usually reaching 4.66 kgs (10.27 lbs)
- Antelope jackrabbit usually reaching 3.93 kgs (8.66 lbs)
- Allen’s swamp monkey usually reaching 4.75 kgs (10.47 lbs)
- Pampas cat usually reaching 4.4 kgs (9.7 lbs)
- Southern tamandua usually reaching 4.73 kgs (10.43 lbs)
- Brazilian porcupine usually reaching 4.12 kgs (9.08 lbs)
- Mexican agouti usually reaching 5 kgs (11.02 lbs)
- White-tailed mongoose usually reaching 3.66 kgs (8.07 lbs)
- Günther’s dik-dik usually reaching 4.61 kgs (10.16 lbs)
- European hare usually reaching 3.82 kgs (8.42 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Spotted-necked otter
Also reaching around 59.4 cm (2′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Philippine porcupine gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red-shanked douc gets as big as 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo gets as big as 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Ground pangolin gets as big as 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Lowland paca gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Black-headed spider monkey gets as big as 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Asian small-clawed otter gets as big as 51.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Dusky leaf monkey gets as big as 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Drill (animal) gets as big as 70 cm (2′ 4″)