How many baby Burchell’s zebras are in a litter?
A Burchell’s zebra (Equus burchellii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 371 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 32.29 kg (71.18 lbs) and measure 3.1 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Equidae family (genus: Equus). An adult Burchell’s zebra grows up to a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
Burchell’s zebra (Equus quagga burchellii) is a southern subspecies of the plains zebra. It is named after the British explorer and naturalist William John Burchell. Common names include the bontequagga, Damaraland zebra, and Zululand zebra (Gray, 1824). Burchell’s zebra is the only subspecies of zebra which may be legally farmed for human consumption.
Other animals of the family Equidae
Burchell’s zebra is a member of the Equidae, as are these animals:
- Horse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain zebra with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Equus onager weighting around 205 kilograms (451.95 lbs)
- Grévy’s zebra with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Asinus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kiang weighting around 280.57 kilograms (618.55 lbs)
- Onager with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Plains zebra becoming 20 years old
Animals that share a litter size with Burchell’s zebra
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Eastern woolly lemur
- Black-capped squirrel monkey
- Southeastern myotis
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Gray bat
- Malayan civet
- Defua rat
- Painted bat
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat
Animals that get as old as a Burchell’s zebra
Other animals that usually reach the age of 40 years:
- Polar bear with 38.17 years
- Common genet with 34 years
- Sumatran rhinoceros with 35 years
- Grey seal with 46.67 years
- Melon-headed whale with 47 years
- Pygmy hippopotamus with 43.75 years
- Bactrian camel with 40 years
- Siamang with 38 years
- Beluga whale with 40 years
- Anoa with 36 years
Animals with the same weight as a Burchell’s zebra
What other animals weight around 278.08 kg (613.06 lbs)?
- Tamaraw usually reaching 252.7 kgs (557.11 lbs)
- Mountain zebra usually reaching 279.73 kgs (616.7 lbs)
- New Zealand sea lion usually reaching 273.67 kgs (603.34 lbs)
- Common bottlenose dolphin usually reaching 281.02 kgs (619.54 lbs)
- Muskox usually reaching 312.67 kgs (689.32 lbs)
- Hooded seal usually reaching 278.95 kgs (614.98 lbs)
- Bearded seal usually reaching 280 kgs (617.29 lbs)
- Dugong usually reaching 295 kgs (650.36 lbs)
- Onager usually reaching 235.62 kgs (519.45 lbs)
- Crabeater seal usually reaching 225 kgs (496.04 lbs)