How many baby Yellow-spotted rock hyraxs are in a litter?
A Yellow-spotted rock hyrax (Heterohyrax brucei) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 228 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 225 grams (0.5 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Procaviidae family (genus: Heterohyrax). An adult Yellow-spotted rock hyrax grows up to a size of 46.9 cm (1′ 7″).
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.
Heterohyrax brucei, more commonly known as the yellow-spotted rock hyrax or bush hyrax, is a species of mammal in the family Procaviidae. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Southern Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Northern South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitats are dry savanna and rocky areas. Hyrax comes from the Greek word ὕραξ, or shrew-mouse.
Other animals of the family Procaviidae
Yellow-spotted rock hyrax is a member of the Procaviidae, as are these animals:
- Western tree hyrax with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern tree hyrax becoming 10 years old
- Rock hyrax with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Heterohyrax antineae becoming 12 years old
- Southern tree hyrax with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Yellow-spotted rock hyrax
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- White-bellied free-tailed bat
- Margay
- Rothschild’s woolly rat
- Kolan vole
- Giant panda
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby
- Allen’s swamp monkey
- South American sea lion
- Giant roundleaf bat
- Smoky pocket gopher
Animals that get as old as a Yellow-spotted rock hyrax
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14 years:
- Silvery marmoset with 16.75 years
- Sugar glider with 14 years
- Desert rat-kangaroo with 13 years
- Steenbok with 14 years
- Günther’s dik-dik with 14 years
- Giant otter with 12.83 years
- Ground cuscus with 12 years
- Beira (antelope) with 14 years
- Maxwell’s duiker with 12.25 years
- Whiptail wallaby with 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-spotted rock hyrax
What other animals weight around 2.45 kg (5.41 lbs)?
- Dusky pademelon usually reaching 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
- Monk saki usually reaching 2.11 kgs (4.65 lbs)
- African brush-tailed porcupine usually reaching 2.88 kgs (6.35 lbs)
- Ethiopian highland hare usually reaching 2.77 kgs (6.11 lbs)
- Jameson’s red rock hare usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Equatorial saki usually reaching 2.38 kgs (5.25 lbs)
- Wedge-capped capuchin usually reaching 2.79 kgs (6.15 lbs)
- Sanford’s brown lemur usually reaching 2.39 kgs (5.27 lbs)
- Swamp rabbit usually reaching 2.14 kgs (4.72 lbs)
- Golden palm civet usually reaching 2.82 kgs (6.22 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Yellow-spotted rock hyrax
Also reaching around 46.9 cm (1′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- European hare gets as big as 52.6 cm (1′ 9″)
- Short-tailed mongoose gets as big as 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Coypu gets as big as 52.1 cm (1′ 9″)
- Swift fox gets as big as 50.5 cm (1′ 8″)
- Tana River red colobus gets as big as 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Red-eared guenon gets as big as 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Wedge-capped capuchin gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain gets as big as 54 cm (1′ 10″)
- Black bearded saki gets as big as 41.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Tiger quoll gets as big as 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)