What is the maximal age a Cape porcupine reaches?
An adult Cape porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) usually gets as old as 20 years.
Cape porcupines are around 93 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 306 grams (0.67 lbs) and measure 5.5 cm (0′ 3″). As a member of the Hystricidae family (genus: Hystrix), a Cape porcupine caries out around 2 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 8.79 meter (28′ 10″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The Cape porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis) or South African porcupine, is a species of Old World porcupine native to central and southern Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Cape porcupine
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Hystricidae):
- Philippine porcupine becoming 9.5 years old
- Crested porcupine with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Thick-spined porcupine growing to a mass of 4.59 kgs (10.12 lbs)
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Malayan porcupine becoming 27.25 years old
- Indian crested porcupine with 2 babies per pregnancy
- African brush-tailed porcupine becoming 22.83 years old
- Long-tailed porcupine becoming 10.08 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Cape porcupine
With an average age of 20 years, Cape porcupine are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Brazilian porcupine usually reaching 17.25 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat usually reaching 21.17 years
- Jentink’s duiker usually reaching 17.5 years
- Tayra usually reaching 18 years
- Indiana bat usually reaching 20 years
- Finless porpoise usually reaching 23 years
- Platypus usually reaching 22 years
- Pygmy sperm whale usually reaching 17 years
- Bharal usually reaching 24 years
- Alpine ibex usually reaching 22.25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Cape porcupine
The same number of babies at once (2) are born by:
- Long-nosed bandicoot
- White-lipped peccary
- Marsh rabbit
- Fennec fox
- Greenish yellow bat
- Watson’s climbing rat
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat
- Peters’s climbing rat
- Cape gray mongoose
- Web-footed tenrec
Weighting as much as Cape porcupine
A fully grown Cape porcupine reaches around 14.92 kg (32.89 lbs). So do these animals:
- Olive baboon weighting 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs) on average
- Black-fronted duiker weighting 14.44 kilos (31.83 lbs) on average
- Ethiopian wolf weighting 14.38 kilos (31.7 lbs) on average
- Pacarana weighting 12.5 kilos (27.56 lbs) on average
- White-bellied duiker weighting 13.1 kilos (28.88 lbs) on average
- Whiptail wallaby weighting 12.67 kilos (27.93 lbs) on average
- Gray snub-nosed monkey weighting 12.3 kilos (27.12 lbs) on average
- Ursine tree-kangaroo weighting 13.28 kilos (29.28 lbs) on average
- Plate-toothed giant hutia weighting 13.7 kilos (30.2 lbs) on average
- African civet weighting 12.09 kilos (26.65 lbs) on average