How many baby Anoas are in a litter?
A Anoa (Bubalus quarlesi) 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 294 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5.88 kg (12.96 lbs) and measure 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Bubalus). An adult Anoa grows up to a size of 1.58 meter (5′ 3″).
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.
Anoa, also known as midget buffalo and sapiutan, are a subgenus of Bubalus comprising two species endemic to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia: the mountain anoa (Bubalus quarlesi) and the lowland anoa (Bubalus depressicornis). Both live in undisturbed rainforest and are similar in appearance to miniature water buffalo, weighing 150–300 kg (330–660 lb).Both species of anoa have been classified as endangered since the 1960s and the populations continue to decrease. Fewer than 5,000 animals of each species likely remain. Reasons for their decline include hunting for hides, horns and meat by the local peoples and loss of habitat due to the advancement of settlement. Currently, hunting is the more serious factor in most areas.After a study of the skulls of many anoa, it was shown that there was hybridizing and interbreeding between the two. It was questioned as to whether the two species were actually different due to mixing of the two in many different areas, as well as some interbreeding. After analyzing the DNA barcode of the two, it was proven that they are in fact different species.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Anoa is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Japanese serow with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed goral becoming 13.17 years old
- Siberian ibex becoming 22.25 years old
- Przewalski’s gazelle weighting around 27.5 kilograms (60.63 lbs)
- Suni with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nile lechwe becoming 18.67 years old
- Kob with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arabian oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bluebuck weighting around 150 kilograms (330.69 lbs)
- Goat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Anoa
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Markhor
- Wagner’s bonneted bat
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle
- Boehm’s bush squirrel
- Guinea baboon
- Nilgiri tahr
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo
- Iberian ibex
- Sambar deer
- Harbor seal
Animals that get as old as a Anoa
Other animals that usually reach the age of 22.5 years:
- Black wildebeest with 20 years
- Eld’s deer with 19.33 years
- Nilgai with 21.67 years
- Common vampire bat with 19.5 years
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin with 27 years
- Guadalupe fur seal with 24 years
- Black crested mangabey with 26.75 years
- Koala with 20 years
- Red-necked wallaby with 19 years
- Tana River mangabey with 21 years
Animals with the same weight as a Anoa
What other animals weight around 180.86 kg (398.73 lbs)?
- Nilgai usually reaching 181.63 kgs (400.43 lbs)
- Dwarf sperm whale usually reaching 183 kgs (403.45 lbs)
- East African oryx usually reaching 200.58 kgs (442.2 lbs)
- Sambar deer usually reaching 177.52 kgs (391.36 lbs)
- Sambar deer usually reaching 176 kgs (388.01 lbs)
- Gemsbok usually reaching 187.6 kgs (413.59 lbs)
- Irrawaddy dolphin usually reaching 190 kgs (418.88 lbs)
- Mountain nyala usually reaching 215 kgs (473.99 lbs)
- Equus onager usually reaching 205 kgs (451.95 lbs)
- South American sea lion usually reaching 193.67 kgs (426.97 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Anoa
Also reaching around 1.58 meter (5′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Mountain goat gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Visayan warty pig gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Harbor seal gets as big as 1.61 meter (5′ 4″)
- Mule deer gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Leopard gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Sheep gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Pygmy hippopotamus gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Galápagos fur seal gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Ribbon seal gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)