How many baby Galápagos fur seals are in a litter?
A Galápagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 216 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3.5 kg (7.72 lbs) and measure 4.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Otariidae family (genus: Arctocephalus). An adult Galápagos fur seal grows up to a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″).
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 Galápagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) breeds on the Galápagos Islands in the eastern Pacific, west of mainland Ecuador.
Other animals of the family Otariidae
Galápagos fur seal is a member of the Otariidae, as are these animals:
- New Zealand sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arctocephalus forsteri with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Subantarctic fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Steller sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Antarctic fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South American sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- California sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Juan Fernández fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South American fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Galápagos fur seal
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Red-shanked douc
- Dormer’s bat
- South Andean deer
- Hammer-headed bat
- Western gorilla
- Red-eared guenon
- Blue whale
- Ground cuscus
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
Animals that get as old as a Galápagos fur seal
Other animals that usually reach the age of 22 years:
- Aye-aye with 24.25 years
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with 21 years
- Père David’s deer with 23.25 years
- Three-striped night monkey with 25.25 years
- Moustached guenon with 23 years
- Serval with 23 years
- Striped hyena with 24 years
- Celebes crested macaque with 18 years
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with 24.5 years
- Impala with 17.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Galápagos fur seal
What other animals weight around 39.47 kg (87.03 lbs)?
- Sumatran orangutan usually reaching 39.7 kgs (87.52 lbs)
- Giant muntjac usually reaching 36.69 kgs (80.89 lbs)
- Pronghorn usually reaching 47.18 kgs (104.01 lbs)
- Tibetan antelope usually reaching 32.66 kgs (72 lbs)
- Giant armadillo usually reaching 41.33 kgs (91.12 lbs)
- Springbok usually reaching 33.39 kgs (73.61 lbs)
- Japanese serow usually reaching 42.6 kgs (93.92 lbs)
- Tucuxi usually reaching 42.82 kgs (94.4 lbs)
- Wolf usually reaching 33.38 kgs (73.59 lbs)
- Vaquita usually reaching 43.11 kgs (95.04 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Galápagos fur seal
Also reaching around 1.36 meter (4′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Jaguar gets as big as 1.33 meter (4′ 5″)
- Ringed seal gets as big as 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Bohor reedbuck gets as big as 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Vicuña gets as big as 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Sheep gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Roan antelope gets as big as 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Baikal seal gets as big as 1.27 meter (4′ 3″)
- Subantarctic fur seal gets as big as 1.63 meter (5′ 4″)
- Philippine deer gets as big as 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- American black bear gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)