How many baby Antarctic fur seals are in a litter?
A Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 295 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5.8 kg (12.78 lbs) and measure 4.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Otariidae family (genus: Arctocephalus). An adult Antarctic fur seal grows up to a size of 1.57 meter (5′ 2″).
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 Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella), is one of eight seals in the genus Arctocephalus, and one of nine fur seals in the subfamily Arctocephalinae. Despite what its name suggests, the Antarctic fur seal is mostly distributed in Subantarctic islands and its scientific name is thought to have come from the German vessel SMS Gazelle, which was the first to collect specimens of this species from Kerguelen Islands.
Other animals of the family Otariidae
Antarctic fur seal is a member of the Otariidae, as are these animals:
- Arctocephalus forsteri with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South American sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South American fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Juan Fernández fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Guadalupe fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- California sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Steller sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- New Zealand sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Antarctic fur seal
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Long-footed treeshrew
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
- Smaller horseshoe bat
- Blackish deer mouse
- François’ langur
- Blue whale
- Cantor’s roundleaf bat
- Gray-bellied night monkey
- Six-banded armadillo
- White-tailed deer
Animals that get as old as a Antarctic fur seal
Other animals that usually reach the age of 23 years:
- White-faced saki with 20.67 years
- Aye-aye with 24.25 years
- Eurasian lynx with 26.75 years
- Big brown bat with 20 years
- Banteng with 26.5 years
- Japanese serow with 18.5 years
- Crested mona monkey with 24.08 years
- Big hairy armadillo with 20 years
- East Caucasian tur with 22 years
- Muskox with 24 years
Animals with the same weight as a Antarctic fur seal
What other animals weight around 96.6 kg (212.97 lbs)?
- Short-beaked common dolphin usually reaching 79.29 kgs (174.8 lbs)
- Barbary sheep usually reaching 93.7 kgs (206.57 lbs)
- Walia ibex usually reaching 99.77 kgs (219.95 lbs)
- Reindeer usually reaching 108.73 kgs (239.71 lbs)
- Schomburgk’s deer usually reaching 107.63 kgs (237.28 lbs)
- Asian black bear usually reaching 99.81 kgs (220.04 lbs)
- Sloth bear usually reaching 99.45 kgs (219.25 lbs)
- Javan warty pig usually reaching 89.2 kgs (196.65 lbs)
- Lechwe usually reaching 88.02 kgs (194.05 lbs)
- Jaguar usually reaching 84.26 kgs (185.76 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Antarctic fur seal
Also reaching around 1.57 meter (5′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Baiji gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 8″)
- Leopard gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Anoa gets as big as 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Eld’s deer gets as big as 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Red river hog gets as big as 1.37 meter (4′ 6″)
- Galápagos fur seal gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Taruca gets as big as 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Bawean deer gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Guadalupe fur seal gets as big as 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Kob gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)