How many baby Bornean orangutans are in a litter?
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 259 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.65 kg (3.63 lbs) and measure 2 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Hominidae family (genus: Pongo). An adult Bornean orangutan grows up to a size of 89 cm (3′ 0″).
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 Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) is a species of orangutan native to the island of Borneo. Together with the Sumatran orangutan and Tapanuli orangutan, it belongs to the only genus of great apes native to Asia. Like the other great apes, orangutans are highly intelligent, displaying tool use and distinct cultural patterns in the wild. Orangutans share approximately 97% of their DNA with humans.The Bornean orangutan is a critically endangered species, with deforestation, palm oil plantations, and hunting posing a serious threat to its continued existence.
Other animals of the family Hominidae
Bornean orangutan is a member of the Hominidae, as are these animals:
- Bonobo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sumatran orangutan weighting around 39.7 kilograms (87.52 lbs)
- Homo sapiens with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Western gorilla with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern gorilla weighting around 149.33 kilograms (329.22 lbs)
- Chimpanzee with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bornean orangutan
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Margay
- Dark-winged lesser house bat
- Eastern long-fingered bat
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Olive colobus
- White-footed sportive lemur
- Mountain goat
- Seychelles fruit bat
- Cave nectar bat
Animals that get as old as a Bornean orangutan
Other animals that usually reach the age of 60 years:
- Dugong with 70 years
- Caspian seal with 50 years
- Baikal seal with 56 years
- Baikal seal with 56 years
- Horse with 62 years
- Common minke whale with 50 years
- Caspian seal with 50 years
- Chimpanzee with 60 years
- Western gorilla with 54 years
- White rhinoceros with 50 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bornean orangutan
What other animals weight around 52.97 kg (116.78 lbs)?
- Celebes warty pig usually reaching 53.46 kgs (117.86 lbs)
- Harnessed bushbuck usually reaching 43.28 kgs (95.42 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer usually reaching 46.48 kgs (102.47 lbs)
- Grant’s gazelle usually reaching 55 kgs (121.25 lbs)
- Cougar usually reaching 53.93 kgs (118.9 lbs)
- Harbour porpoise usually reaching 52.72 kgs (116.23 lbs)
- Homo sapiens usually reaching 58.62 kgs (129.23 lbs)
- Nubian ibex usually reaching 47.68 kgs (105.12 lbs)
- Capybara usually reaching 48.14 kgs (106.13 lbs)
- Capybara usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bornean orangutan
Also reaching around 89 cm (3′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Bonobo gets as big as 75.3 cm (2′ 6″)
- Common wombat gets as big as 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Dwarf musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Fishing cat gets as big as 77.9 cm (2′ 7″)
- Goa (antelope) gets as big as 98 cm (3′ 3″)
- Maxwell’s duiker gets as big as 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Indian muntjac gets as big as 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Hairy-nosed otter gets as big as 76.5 cm (2′ 7″)
- Wolverine gets as big as 77.3 cm (2′ 7″)
- Smooth-coated otter gets as big as 78.8 cm (2′ 8″)