How many baby Long-finned pilot whales are in a litter?
A Long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 479 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 180 kg (396.83 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Delphinidae family (genus: Globicephala). An adult Long-finned pilot whale grows up to a size of 5.69 meter (18′ 9″).
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 long-finned pilot whale (Globicephala melas) is a large species of oceanic dolphin. It shares the genus Globicephala with the short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus). Long-finned pilot whales are known as such because of their unusually long pectoral fins.
Other animals of the family Delphinidae
Long-finned pilot whale is a member of the Delphinidae, as are these animals:
- Southern right whale dolphin weighting around 116 kilograms (255.74 lbs)
- Spinner dolphin weighting around 50.5 kilograms (111.33 lbs)
- Atlantic humpback dolphin weighting around 100 kilograms (220.46 lbs)
- Chilean dolphin weighting around 45 kilograms (99.21 lbs)
- Tucuxi weighting around 42.82 kilograms (94.4 lbs)
- Pygmy killer whale with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Atlantic spotted dolphin weighting around 110 kilograms (242.51 lbs)
- Irrawaddy dolphin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common bottlenose dolphin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Northern right whale dolphin weighting around 113 kilograms (249.12 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Long-finned pilot whale
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Little brown bat
- Coquerel’s sifaka
- Markhor
- Zanzibar bushbaby
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur
- Allen’s swamp monkey
- Subalpine woolly rat
- Colombian white-faced capuchin
- Giant armadillo
- Pallas’s squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Long-finned pilot whale
Other animals that usually reach the age of 45 years:
- Onager with 38.75 years
- Northern giraffe with 36.25 years
- Common minke whale with 50 years
- White rhinoceros with 50 years
- Anoa with 36 years
- Polar bear with 38.17 years
- Melon-headed whale with 47 years
- Harp seal with 42 years
- Spotted hyena with 41.08 years
- Striped dolphin with 50 years
Animals with the same weight as a Long-finned pilot whale
What other animals weight around 800 kg (1763.7 lbs)?
- Kouprey usually reaching 788.66 kgs (1738.7 lbs)
- Water buffalo usually reaching 924.25 kgs (2037.62 lbs)
- Giant eland usually reaching 644.51 kgs (1420.9 lbs)
- Northern giraffe usually reaching 959.83 kgs (2116.06 lbs)
- Narwhal usually reaching 938.06 kgs (2068.07 lbs)
- Short-finned pilot whale usually reaching 726 kgs (1600.55 lbs)
- European bison usually reaching 674.44 kgs (1486.88 lbs)
- Gayal usually reaching 800.07 kgs (1763.85 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Long-finned pilot whale
Also reaching around 5.69 meter (18′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- True’s beaked whale gets as big as 5.18 meter (17′ 0″)
- Southern bottlenose whale gets as big as 6.7 meter (22′ 0″)
- Blainville’s beaked whale gets as big as 4.59 meter (15′ 1″)
- Sowerby’s beaked whale gets as big as 5.03 meter (16′ 7″)
- Gervais’ beaked whale gets as big as 6.71 meter (22′ 1″)
- Hubbs’ beaked whale gets as big as 5.4 meter (17′ 9″)
- Narwhal gets as big as 5.1 meter (16′ 9″)
- Common minke whale gets as big as 5.53 meter (18′ 2″)
- Stejneger’s beaked whale gets as big as 6.09 meter (20′ 0″)
- Short-finned pilot whale gets as big as 6.1 meter (20′ 1″)