How many baby Tapetis are in a litter?
A Tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 4 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 42 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 27 grams (0.06 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Leporidae family (genus: Sylvilagus). An adult Tapeti grows up to a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″).
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 tapeti (Sylvilagus brasiliensis), also known as the Brazilian cottontail or forest cottontail, is a species of cottontail rabbit. It is small to medium-sized with a small, dark tail, short hind feet, and short ears. As traditionally defined, its range extends from southern Mexico to northern Argentina, but this includes several distinctive population that recent authorities have recommended splitting into separate species. Under this narrower definition, the true tapeti only occurs in the Atlantic Rainforest of coastal northeastern Brazil and it is classified as “Endangered” by the IUCN.
Other animals of the family Leporidae
Tapeti is a member of the Leporidae, as are these animals:
- African savanna hare with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Korean hare raching a size of 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- Japanese hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Antelope jackrabbit with 2 babies per pregnancy
- New England cottontail with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Tolai hare with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Desert cottontail with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Mexican cottontail with 3 babies per pregnancy
- European rabbit with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Arctic hare with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Tapeti
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Gray brocket
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Rwanda African mole-rat
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat
- Greater spot-nosed monkey
- White-striped free-tailed bat
- Harpy fruit bat
- Pennant’s colobus
- Steenbok
- Handley’s tailless bat
Animals with the same weight as a Tapeti
What other animals weight around 988 grams (2.18 lbs)?
- Bengal slow loris usually reaching 1.14 kgs (2.51 lbs)
- Long-nosed echymipera usually reaching 1.05 kgs (2.31 lbs)
- Indian giant squirrel usually reaching 1.06 kgs (2.34 lbs)
- Cinereus ringtail possum weighting 977 grams
- Water opossum weighting 977 grams
- Hispaniolan solenodon weighting 893 grams
- Herbert River ringtail possum usually reaching 1.1 kgs (2.43 lbs)
- Travancore flying squirrel weighting 794 grams
- Oncilla usually reaching 1.11 kgs (2.45 lbs)
- Eastern barred bandicoot weighting 903 grams
Animals with the same size as a Tapeti
Also reaching around 36.3 cm (1′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Mountain beaver gets as big as 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Ring-tailed vontsira gets as big as 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Northern olingo gets as big as 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Steppe polecat gets as big as 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Banded mongoose gets as big as 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Philippine flying lemur gets as big as 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Spotted linsang gets as big as 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Bengal mongoose gets as big as 30.8 cm (1′ 1″)
- Malagasy giant rat gets as big as 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Yarkand hare gets as big as 39 cm (1′ 4″)