How many baby Fraser’s dolphins are in a litter?
A Fraser’s dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 5.79 kg (12.77 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Delphinidae family (genus: Lagenodelphis). An adult Fraser’s dolphin grows up to a size of 2.16 meter (7′ 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.
Fraser’s dolphin or the Sarawak dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) is a cetacean in the family Delphinidae found in deep waters in the Pacific Ocean and to a lesser extent in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
Other animals of the family Delphinidae
Fraser’s dolphin is a member of the Delphinidae, as are these animals:
- Killer whale with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chilean dolphin weighting around 45 kilograms (99.21 lbs)
- Risso’s dolphin becoming 20 years old
- Short-finned pilot whale becoming 63 years old
- Tucuxi weighting around 42.82 kilograms (94.4 lbs)
- Atlantic humpback dolphin weighting around 100 kilograms (220.46 lbs)
- Heaviside’s dolphin weighting around 40 kilograms (88.18 lbs)
- Rough-toothed dolphin becoming 32 years old
- Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin raching a size of 2.37 meter (7′ 10″)
- Hourglass dolphin weighting around 110 kilograms (242.51 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Fraser’s dolphin
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Short-eared rock-wallaby
- Jameson’s red rock hare
- Royal antelope
- Stump-tailed macaque
- Mountain goat
- Gilbert’s potoroo
- Southern forest bat
- Greater mouse-eared bat
- Peleng tarsier
- Woodlark cuscus
Animals with the same weight as a Fraser’s dolphin
What other animals weight around 164 kg (361.56 lbs)?
- Hartebeest usually reaching 162.47 kgs (358.18 lbs)
- Harp seal usually reaching 132.25 kgs (291.56 lbs)
- Harp seal usually reaching 132 kgs (291.01 lbs)
- Eastern gorilla usually reaching 149.33 kgs (329.22 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer usually reaching 161 kgs (354.94 lbs)
- Bornean bearded pig usually reaching 135.4 kgs (298.51 lbs)
- Brown bear usually reaching 196.14 kgs (432.41 lbs)
- Irrawaddy dolphin usually reaching 190 kgs (418.88 lbs)
- Striped dolphin usually reaching 142.05 kgs (313.17 lbs)
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin usually reaching 186.76 kgs (411.73 lbs)