Gamelexicon Stone marten WIKI

Stone martens mate between June and August. When mating act, the male bites the neck of the female. The sexual act takes up to 40 minutes. A female mates with several males. After about seven months of dormancy, the female is pregnant for a month and brings two to five young to the world in the spring. In females that live in very warm areas, the dormancy can also be omitted. They give birth to their boys after only a few weeks. There is no fixed reproduction time with the spotted hyenas, so you can find young animals throughout the year. The gestation period is about 110 days; usually a litter contains only two animals. At birth, the little ones are already relatively well developed. Their eyes are already open, they have teeth and weigh one to 1.5 kilograms, but they are still uniformly colored black. The typical spots develop after about two months. For about a year, they are nursed almost exclusively by the mother, only about nine months old, they go hunting for the first time and start to eat meat. After two to three years they become sexually mature. The newborns are born naked and blind and are completely helpless. Only after a month do they open their eyes. They are nursed by the mother for two months. During this time they remain exclusively in the protected building of the mother. Afterwards, the boys accompany the female in search of food. In autumn, they become self-employed and leave the mother, but live in the same area for some time. At the age of one to two years, the young animals become sexually mature.