How many baby White-lipped peccarys are in a litter?
A White-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 158 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1000 grams (2.2 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Tayassuidae family (genus: Tayassu). An adult White-lipped peccary grows up to a size of 1.11 meter (3′ 8″).
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 white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) is a peccary found in Central and South America. Most of its range is in rainforests, but it is also known from a wide range of other habitats such as dry forests, grasslands, mangrove, Cerrado, and dry xerophytic areas. It lives in herds of 20–300 individuals that typically take up about 120 km2 (46 sq mi) to fully function. Members of this species are omnivorous, feeding mostly on fruit, and are usually found traveling great distances to obtain it. If this resource is in demand and difficult to find, peccaries eat leaves, stems, or animal parts. White-lipped peccaries have several unique attributes that allow them to stay with and identify their herd, which is essential for their survival in the wild.
Other animals of the family Tayassuidae
White-lipped peccary is a member of the Tayassuidae, as are these animals:
- Chacoan peccary with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Collared peccary with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with White-lipped peccary
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Bastard big-footed mouse
- Gambian sun squirrel
- Black-striped squirrel
- Greenish yellow bat
- Asian particolored bat
- Asian black bear
- Golden palm civet
- Lowland ringtail possum
- Alston’s brown mouse
- Eurasian lynx
Animals that get as old as a White-lipped peccary
Other animals that usually reach the age of 21 years:
- North American porcupine with 18 years
- Black-fronted duiker with 19.67 years
- Golden lion tamarin with 24.75 years
- Dama gazelle with 17.25 years
- Red wolf with 20 years
- Japanese serow with 18.5 years
- Sheep with 19.17 years
- Desert warthog with 18.75 years
- Mediterranean monk seal with 23.67 years
- Risso’s dolphin with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a White-lipped peccary
What other animals weight around 31.6 kg (69.66 lbs)?
- Dibatag usually reaching 28.05 kgs (61.84 lbs)
- Snow leopard usually reaching 32.5 kgs (71.65 lbs)
- Eastern grey kangaroo usually reaching 33.51 kgs (73.88 lbs)
- Tibetan antelope usually reaching 32.66 kgs (72 lbs)
- Giant pangolin usually reaching 33 kgs (72.75 lbs)
- Chacoan peccary usually reaching 35.38 kgs (78 lbs)
- Blackbuck usually reaching 36.1 kgs (79.59 lbs)
- Sheep usually reaching 37.47 kgs (82.61 lbs)
- Mongolian gazelle usually reaching 28.22 kgs (62.21 lbs)
- Red-fronted gazelle usually reaching 27 kgs (59.52 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-lipped peccary
Also reaching around 1.11 meter (3′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Pampas deer gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Bornean orangutan gets as big as 89 cm (3′ 0″)
- Mountain goat gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby gets as big as 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Sika deer gets as big as 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Rhim gazelle gets as big as 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Ogilby’s duiker gets as big as 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Goa (antelope) gets as big as 98 cm (3′ 3″)
- Mountain reedbuck gets as big as 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)
- Black-fronted duiker gets as big as 94.4 cm (3′ 2″)