How many baby Black rhinoceross are in a litter?
A Black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 466 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 35 kg (77.16 lbs) and measure 91.1 cm (3′ 0″). They are a member of the Rhinocerotidae family (genus: Diceros). An adult Black rhinoceros grows up to a size of 2.85 meter (9′ 5″).
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 black rhinoceros or hook-lipped rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is a species of rhinoceros, native to eastern and southern Africa including Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Eswatini, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Although the rhinoceros is referred to as black, its colours vary from brown to grey.The other African rhinoceros is the white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum). The word “white” in the name “white rhinoceros” is often said to be a misinterpretation of the Afrikaans word wyd (Dutch wijd) meaning wide, referring to its square upper lip, as opposed to the pointed or hooked lip of the black rhinoceros. These species are now sometimes referred to as the square-lipped (for white) or hook-lipped (for black) rhinoceros.The species overall is classified as critically endangered (even though the south-western black rhinoceros is classified as near threatened). Three subspecies have been declared extinct, including the western black rhinoceros, which was declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2011.
Other animals of the family Rhinocerotidae
Black rhinoceros is a member of the Rhinocerotidae, as are these animals:
- Indian rhinoceros with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan rhinoceros with 1 babies per pregnancy
- White rhinoceros with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sumatran rhinoceros with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Black rhinoceros
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Black-shanked douc
- Barbary sheep
- Caspian seal
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat
- Suni
- Pennant’s colobus
- Guadalupe fur seal
- Klipspringer
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo
- Lowland paca
Animals that get as old as a Black rhinoceros
Other animals that usually reach the age of 47 years:
- Mandrill with 46.25 years
- Asinus with 47 years
- Caspian seal with 50 years
- Tufted capuchin with 45.08 years
- Bonobo with 48 years
- Crabeater seal with 39 years
- Ringed seal with 46 years
- Colombian white-faced capuchin with 54.75 years
- Indian rhinoceros with 49 years
- Yellow baboon with 45 years
Animals with the same weight as a Black rhinoceros
What other animals weight around 986.47 kg (2174.79 lbs)?
- Narwhal usually reaching 938.06 kgs (2068.07 lbs)
- Sumatran rhinoceros usually reaching 1038.08 kgs (2288.57 lbs)
- Walrus usually reaching 1045.33 kgs (2304.56 lbs)
- Long-finned pilot whale usually reaching 800 kgs (1763.7 lbs)
- Northern elephant seal usually reaching 1116.2 kgs (2460.8 lbs)
- Northern giraffe usually reaching 959.83 kgs (2116.06 lbs)
- Gayal usually reaching 800.07 kgs (1763.85 lbs)
- Hector’s beaked whale usually reaching 1000 kgs (2204.62 lbs)
- Water buffalo usually reaching 924.25 kgs (2037.62 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Black rhinoceros
Also reaching around 2.85 meter (9′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Irrawaddy dolphin gets as big as 2.5 meter (8′ 3″)
- Short-beaked common dolphin gets as big as 2.44 meter (8′ 1″)
- Grévy’s zebra gets as big as 2.7 meter (8′ 11″)
- Striped dolphin gets as big as 2.3 meter (7′ 7″)
- Mediterranean monk seal gets as big as 2.6 meter (8′ 7″)
- Moose gets as big as 2.83 meter (9′ 4″)
- Dugong gets as big as 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)
- White-beaked dolphin gets as big as 3.05 meter (10′ 1″)
- Hooded seal gets as big as 2.33 meter (7′ 8″)
- Giant eland gets as big as 2.52 meter (8′ 4″)