How many baby Brown fur seals are in a litter?
A Brown fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 328 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5.75 kg (12.68 lbs) and measure 4.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Otariidae family (genus: Arctocephalus). An adult Brown fur seal grows up to a size of 1.91 meter (6′ 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.
The brown fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus), also known as the Cape fur seal, South African fur seal and Australian fur seal, is a species of fur seal.
Other animals of the family Otariidae
Brown fur seal is a member of the Otariidae, as are these animals:
- South American sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South American sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arctocephalus forsteri with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Juan Fernández fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- New Zealand sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Australian sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Guadalupe fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- California sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Antarctic fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Subantarctic fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Brown fur seal
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Gelada
- Woylie
- Scaly-tailed possum
- Dusky leaf monkey
- Bighorn sheep
- Little bent-wing bat
- Eared hutia
- Indian pipistrelle
- Moustached guenon
- Bearded seal
Animals that get as old as a Brown fur seal
Other animals that usually reach the age of 21 years:
- Weddell seal with 25 years
- Finless porpoise with 23 years
- Eld’s deer with 19.33 years
- Domestic yak with 22.25 years
- Eastern gray squirrel with 24 years
- Scimitar oryx with 20.42 years
- Fringed myotis with 18.25 years
- Muskox with 24 years
- Gemsbok with 20 years
- Koala with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Brown fur seal
What other animals weight around 178.75 kg (394.08 lbs)?
- Thorold’s deer usually reaching 161 kgs (354.94 lbs)
- Dwarf sperm whale usually reaching 183 kgs (403.45 lbs)
- Blue wildebeest usually reaching 197.31 kgs (434.99 lbs)
- Lion usually reaching 158.75 kgs (349.98 lbs)
- Père David’s deer usually reaching 165.5 kgs (364.86 lbs)
- South American sea lion usually reaching 194 kgs (427.7 lbs)
- Mountain tapir usually reaching 155.46 kgs (342.73 lbs)
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest usually reaching 168.7 kgs (371.92 lbs)
- South American sea lion usually reaching 193.67 kgs (426.97 lbs)
- Sambar deer usually reaching 177.52 kgs (391.36 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Brown fur seal
Also reaching around 1.91 meter (6′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Black wildebeest gets as big as 1.82 meter (6′ 0″)
- Dwarf sperm whale gets as big as 2.16 meter (7′ 2″)
- Scimitar oryx gets as big as 1.91 meter (6′ 4″)
- Hirola gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Northern fur seal gets as big as 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Javan rusa gets as big as 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Harp seal gets as big as 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Anoa gets as big as 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Lesser kudu gets as big as 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
- Malayan tapir gets as big as 2.22 meter (7′ 4″)