How many baby Western long-beaked echidnas are in a litter?
A Western long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bruijni) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 10 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 105 grams (0.23 lbs) and measure 11.1 cm (0′ 5″). They are a member of the Tachyglossidae family (genus: Zaglossus). An adult Western long-beaked echidna grows up to a size of 67.5 cm (2′ 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 western long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bruijnii) is one of the four extant echidnas and one of three species of Zaglossus that occur in New Guinea. Originally described as Tachyglossus bruijnii, this is the type species of Zaglossus.
Other animals of the family Tachyglossidae
Western long-beaked echidna is a member of the Tachyglossidae, as are these animals:
- Short-beaked echidna with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Western long-beaked echidna
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- European bison
- Gee’s golden langur
- Harnessed bushbuck
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
- Blue whale
- California leaf-nosed bat
- Kolan vole
- Least horseshoe bat
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine
- Beluga whale
Animals that get as old as a Western long-beaked echidna
Other animals that usually reach the age of 31 years:
- King colobus with 30.5 years
- Steller sea lion with 30 years
- African civet with 28 years
- Amazon river dolphin with 30 years
- Ryukyu flying fox with 31 years
- Stump-tailed macaque with 30 years
- Tamaraw with 28 years
- Aardwolf with 25 years
- South Asian river dolphin with 28 years
- North American river otter with 25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Western long-beaked echidna
What other animals weight around 8.95 kg (19.73 lbs)?
- Japanese macaque usually reaching 10.11 kgs (22.29 lbs)
- Malayan civet usually reaching 7.35 kgs (16.2 lbs)
- Canada lynx usually reaching 9.73 kgs (21.45 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur usually reaching 7.39 kgs (16.29 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus usually reaching 8.91 kgs (19.64 lbs)
- Angola colobus usually reaching 8.99 kgs (19.82 lbs)
- Gee’s golden langur usually reaching 8.36 kgs (18.43 lbs)
- Pudú usually reaching 9.6 kgs (21.16 lbs)
- Culpeo usually reaching 8.62 kgs (19 lbs)
- Andean mountain cat usually reaching 8.13 kgs (17.92 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Western long-beaked echidna
Also reaching around 67.5 cm (2′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Mantled guereza gets as big as 62.5 cm (2′ 1″)
- Aders’s duiker gets as big as 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Tres Marias raccoon gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Philippine porcupine gets as big as 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Suni gets as big as 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Mandrill gets as big as 75.8 cm (2′ 6″)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red-shanked douc gets as big as 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Marine otter gets as big as 67.8 cm (2′ 3″)
- Jaguarundi gets as big as 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)