How many baby Asian black bears are in a litter?
A Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 200 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 362 grams (0.8 lbs) and measure 12.9 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Ursidae family (genus: Ursus). An adult Asian black bear grows up to a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 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 Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus, previously known as Selenarctos thibetanus), also known as the Asiatic black bear, moon bear and white-chested bear, is a medium-sized bear species native to Asia that is largely adapted to an arboreal lifestyle. It lives in the Himalayas, in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, the Korean Peninsula, northeastern China, the Russian Far East, the Honshū and Shikoku islands of Japan, and Taiwan. It is classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), mostly because of deforestation and hunting for its body parts. Although largely herbivorous, Asian black bears can be very aggressive toward humans, who frequently trap or kill them for traditional medicine.
Other animals of the family Ursidae
Asian black bear is a member of the Ursidae, as are these animals:
- Red panda with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Spectacled bear with 1 babies per pregnancy
- American black bear with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Brown bear with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Polar bear with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sun bear with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sloth bear with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant panda with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Asian black bear
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- North American river otter
- Himalayan striped squirrel
- Greater long-tailed hamster
- Desmarest’s hutia
- Gray-bellied caenolestid
- Mexican harvest mouse
- White-tailed mongoose
- New Guinean jumping mouse
- Mexican vole
- White-lipped tamarin
Animals that get as old as a Asian black bear
Other animals that usually reach the age of 35.17 years:
- Pagai Island macaque with 30 years
- Cat with 34 years
- American black bear with 32 years
- Sea otter with 30 years
- Harp seal with 42 years
- Spotted seal with 35.5 years
- Cuvier’s beaked whale with 36 years
- Malayan tapir with 30 years
- Steller sea lion with 30 years
- Ring-tailed lemur with 30 years
Animals with the same weight as a Asian black bear
What other animals weight around 99.81 kg (220.04 lbs)?
- Baikal seal usually reaching 89.5 kgs (197.31 lbs)
- Dall’s porpoise usually reaching 106.03 kgs (233.76 lbs)
- Eld’s deer usually reaching 95.47 kgs (210.48 lbs)
- Northern right whale dolphin usually reaching 113 kgs (249.12 lbs)
- Eld’s deer usually reaching 94.7 kgs (208.78 lbs)
- Addax usually reaching 95.39 kgs (210.3 lbs)
- Marsh deer usually reaching 111.76 kgs (246.39 lbs)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis usually reaching 110 kgs (242.51 lbs)
- Southern right whale dolphin usually reaching 116 kgs (255.74 lbs)
- Walia ibex usually reaching 99.77 kgs (219.95 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Asian black bear
Also reaching around 1.51 meter (5′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Mule deer gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Capybara gets as big as 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)
- Bighorn sheep gets as big as 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Grant’s gazelle gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Philippine deer gets as big as 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Kob gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Lesser kudu gets as big as 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
- Bharal gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- White-tailed deer gets as big as 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Javan rusa gets as big as 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)