How many baby Tayras are in a litter?
A Tayra (Eira barbara) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 66 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 83 grams (0.18 lbs) and measure 8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Mustelidae family (genus: Eira). An adult Tayra grows up to a size of 61.4 cm (2′ 1″).
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 tayra (Eira barbara) is an omnivorous animal from the weasel family, native to the Americas. It is the only species in the genus Eira.Tayras are also known as the tolomuco or perico ligero in Central America, motete in Honduras, irara in Brazil, san hol or viejo de monte in the Yucatan Peninsula, and high-woods dog (or historically chien bois) in Trinidad. The genus name Eira is derived from the indigenous name of the animal in Bolivia and Peru, while barbara means “strange” or “foreign”.
Other animals of the family Mustelidae
Tayra is a member of the Mustelidae, as are these animals:
- Colombian weasel weighting only 211 grams
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Amazon weasel weighting only 268 grams
- Marbled polecat with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain weasel with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Black-footed ferret with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Asian small-clawed otter with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-nosed otter weighting around 5.97 kilograms (13.16 lbs)
- African striped weasel with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern river otter weighting around 7.5 kilograms (16.53 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Tayra
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Guaira spiny rat
- Bobcat
- Somali serotine
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
- Mayor’s mouse
- Long-tailed pygmy possum
- Red-handed tamarin
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat
- Afghan vole
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew
Animals that get as old as a Tayra
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18 years:
- White-nosed coati with 17.67 years
- Nile lechwe with 18.67 years
- Emperor tamarin with 20.17 years
- European rabbit with 18 years
- Pond bat with 19.5 years
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with 20 years
- Red giant flying squirrel with 16 years
- Cheetah with 19 years
- Fossa (animal) with 20 years
- Swamp wallaby with 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a Tayra
What other animals weight around 4.14 kg (9.12 lbs)?
- Campbell’s mona monkey usually reaching 3.63 kgs (8 lbs)
- Six-banded armadillo usually reaching 4.76 kgs (10.49 lbs)
- Giant bandicoot usually reaching 4.8 kgs (10.58 lbs)
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.57 kgs (10.08 lbs)
- Pagai Island macaque usually reaching 4.53 kgs (9.99 lbs)
- Chinese pangolin usually reaching 4.67 kgs (10.3 lbs)
- Allied rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.63 kgs (10.21 lbs)
- Long-tailed marmot usually reaching 4.35 kgs (9.59 lbs)
- Olive colobus usually reaching 3.98 kgs (8.77 lbs)
- Pampas fox usually reaching 4.54 kgs (10.01 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Tayra
Also reaching around 61.4 cm (2′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo gets as big as 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
- White-tailed jackrabbit gets as big as 51.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Broom hare gets as big as 50.2 cm (1′ 8″)
- Spotted-necked otter gets as big as 59.7 cm (2′ 0″)
- Pygmy hog gets as big as 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Asian small-clawed otter gets as big as 51.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Brown howler gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- South American coati gets as big as 52.8 cm (1′ 9″)