How many baby Common minke whales are in a litter?
A Common minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) 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 304 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 7.6 meter (25′ 0″). They are a member of the Balaenopteridae family (genus: Balaenoptera). An adult Common minke whale grows up to a size of 5.53 meter (18′ 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 common minke whale or northern minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) is a species of minke whale within the suborder of baleen whales.It is the smallest species of the rorquals and the second smallest species of baleen whale. Although first ignored by whalers due to its small size and low oil yield, it began to be exploited by various countries beginning in the early 20th century. As other species declined larger numbers of common minke whales were caught, largely for their meat. It is now one of the primary targets of the whaling industry. There is a dwarf form in the Southern Hemisphere.This species is known in the fossil record from the Pliocene epoch to the Quaternary period (age range: 3.6 million years ago to present day).
Other animals of the family Balaenopteridae
Common minke whale is a member of the Balaenopteridae, as are these animals:
- Humpback whale with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blue whale with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bryde’s whale becoming 72 years old
- Sei whale with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Fin whale with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Common minke whale
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Blue wildebeest
- Guam flying fox
- Black-eared flying fox
- Guinea baboon
- Oecomys concolor
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
- Purple-faced langur
- Dusky fruit bat
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- Subantarctic fur seal
Animals that get as old as a Common minke whale
Other animals that usually reach the age of 50 years:
- Bactrian camel with 40 years
- Agile gibbon with 44 years
- Baikal seal with 56 years
- Chimpanzee with 60 years
- Hippopotamus with 54.5 years
- Baikal seal with 56 years
- Caspian seal with 50 years
- Spotted hyena with 41.08 years
- Lar gibbon with 40 years
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin with 44 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common minke whale
What other animals weight around 5588.55 kg (12320.62 lbs)?
- Cuvier’s beaked whale usually reaching 4772.5 kgs (10521.55 lbs)
- African forest elephant usually reaching 4750 kgs (10471.95 lbs)
- Stejneger’s beaked whale usually reaching 4800 kgs (10582.18 lbs)
- Killer whale usually reaching 5629.17 kgs (12410.18 lbs)
- Gervais’ beaked whale usually reaching 5600 kgs (12345.87 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Common minke whale
Also reaching around 5.53 meter (18′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Narwhal gets as big as 5.1 meter (16′ 9″)
- Short-finned pilot whale gets as big as 6.1 meter (20′ 1″)
- Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale gets as big as 4.88 meter (16′ 1″)
- Stejneger’s beaked whale gets as big as 6.09 meter (20′ 0″)
- Sowerby’s beaked whale gets as big as 5.03 meter (16′ 7″)
- True’s beaked whale gets as big as 5.18 meter (17′ 0″)
- Blainville’s beaked whale gets as big as 4.59 meter (15′ 1″)
- Long-finned pilot whale gets as big as 5.69 meter (18′ 9″)
- Hubbs’ beaked whale gets as big as 5.4 meter (17′ 9″)