How many baby White-nosed coatis are in a litter?
A White-nosed coati (Nasua narica) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 76 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 140 grams (0.31 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Procyonidae family (genus: Nasua). An adult White-nosed coati grows up to a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″).
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-nosed coati (Nasua narica), also known as the coatimundi (), is a species of coati and a member of the family Procyonidae (raccoons and their relatives). Local Spanish names for the species include pizote, antoon, and tejón, depending upon the region. It weighs about 4–6 kg (8.8–13.2 lb). However, males are much larger than females: small females can weigh as little as 2.5 kg (5.5 lb), while large males can weigh as much as 12.2 kg (27 lb). On average, the nose-to-tail length of the species is about 110 cm (3.6 ft) with about half of that being the tail length.
Other animals of the family Procyonidae
White-nosed coati is a member of the Procyonidae, as are these animals:
- Northern olingo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Raccoon with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Ring-tailed cat with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Kinkajou with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cacomistle with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Tres Marias raccoon raching a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Bahamian raccoon with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Nasuella olivacea weighting around 1.34 kilograms (2.95 lbs)
- Northern olingo weighting around 1.2 kilograms (2.65 lbs)
- Eastern lowland olingo weighting only 620 grams
Animals that share a litter size with White-nosed coati
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Thomas’s pine vole
- California vole
- Lesser capybara
- San Joaquin pocket mouse
- Turkestan red pika
- Tropical pocket gopher
- Smith’s vole
- Bunchgrass leaf-eared mouse
- Talas tuco-tuco
- Shrew gymnure
Animals that get as old as a White-nosed coati
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17.67 years:
- Red-necked wallaby with 19 years
- Short-eared possum with 17 years
- Mountain gazelle with 18.25 years
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with 15 years
- Roan antelope with 20 years
- East African oryx with 20 years
- Indian muntjac with 17.58 years
- Common pipistrelle with 16.67 years
- South African springhare with 14.5 years
- Müeller’s gibbon with 14.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a White-nosed coati
What other animals weight around 4.58 kg (10.09 lbs)?
- Southern tamandua usually reaching 4.73 kgs (10.43 lbs)
- Big hairy armadillo usually reaching 4.46 kgs (9.83 lbs)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 3.74 kgs (8.25 lbs)
- Allen’s swamp monkey usually reaching 4.75 kgs (10.47 lbs)
- Gray fox usually reaching 3.83 kgs (8.44 lbs)
- Greater cane rat usually reaching 3.75 kgs (8.27 lbs)
- Parma wallaby usually reaching 4.16 kgs (9.17 lbs)
- Red panda usually reaching 5.17 kgs (11.4 lbs)
- Mexican agouti usually reaching 5 kgs (11.02 lbs)
- Allied rock-wallaby usually reaching 4.63 kgs (10.21 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-nosed coati
Also reaching around 55 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- White-thighed surili gets as big as 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Rüppell’s fox gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Preuss’s red colobus gets as big as 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Brown howler gets as big as 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- Red panda gets as big as 58.3 cm (1′ 11″)
- Müeller’s gibbon gets as big as 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Hose’s palm civet gets as big as 60.1 cm (2′ 0″)
- Bald uakari gets as big as 54.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tayra gets as big as 61.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Beech marten gets as big as 46 cm (1′ 7″)