How many baby Guanacos are in a litter?
A Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) 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 334 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 11.5 kg (25.35 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Camelidae family (genus: Lama). An adult Guanaco grows up to a size of 1.47 meter (4′ 11″).
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 guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is a camelid native to South America, closely related to the llama. Its name comes from the Quechua word huanaco (modern spelling wanaku). Young guanacos are called chulengos.
Other animals of the family Camelidae
Guanaco is a member of the Camelidae, as are these animals:
- Vicuña with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Llama with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bactrian camel with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Alpaca with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dromedary with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Guanaco
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Western long-tongued bat
- Nilgiri langur
- Big-eared flying fox
- Great flying fox
- Mantled howler
- White-striped dorcopsis
- Noack’s roundleaf bat
- L’Hoest’s monkey
- Brown-mantled tamarin
- Scrub hare
Animals that get as old as a Guanaco
Other animals that usually reach the age of 28.25 years:
- Blue monkey with 27.08 years
- Patas monkey with 23.83 years
- Wolf with 29.5 years
- Northern olingo with 25 years
- King colobus with 30.5 years
- American badger with 26 years
- Drill (animal) with 33.33 years
- Hawaiian monk seal with 30 years
- Brown long-eared bat with 30 years
- Moustached guenon with 23 years
Animals with the same weight as a Guanaco
What other animals weight around 95.5 kg (210.54 lbs)?
- Snow sheep usually reaching 90 kgs (198.42 lbs)
- Pacific white-sided dolphin usually reaching 109.85 kgs (242.18 lbs)
- Antarctic fur seal usually reaching 96.6 kgs (212.97 lbs)
- Eld’s deer usually reaching 95.47 kgs (210.48 lbs)
- Hourglass dolphin usually reaching 110 kgs (242.51 lbs)
- Bontebok usually reaching 77.24 kgs (170.28 lbs)
- Arctocephalus forsteri usually reaching 101.13 kgs (222.95 lbs)
- Saola usually reaching 97.84 kgs (215.7 lbs)
- Jaguar usually reaching 84.26 kgs (185.76 lbs)
- Sloth bear usually reaching 99.45 kgs (219.25 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Guanaco
Also reaching around 1.47 meter (4′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Harp seal gets as big as 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Harbor seal gets as big as 1.61 meter (5′ 4″)
- Ribbon seal gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Asian black bear gets as big as 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Pampas deer gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Barasingha gets as big as 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Capybara gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 0″)
- Baikal seal gets as big as 1.27 meter (4′ 3″)
- Siberian roe deer gets as big as 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Caspian seal gets as big as 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)