How many baby Malayan tapirs are in a litter?
A Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 396 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6.85 kg (15.1 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Tapiridae family (genus: Tapirus). An adult Malayan tapir grows up to a size of 2.22 meter (7′ 4″).
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 Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), also called the Asian tapir, Asiatic tapir, Oriental tapir, Indian tapir, or piebald tapir, is the largest of the four widely-recognized species of tapir and the only one native to Asia. The scientific name refers to the East Indies, the species’ natural habitat. In the Malay language, the tapir is commonly referred to as cipan, tenuk or badak tampung.
Other animals of the family Tapiridae
Malayan tapir is a member of the Tapiridae, as are these animals:
- Baird’s tapir with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain tapir with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South American tapir with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Malayan tapir
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Speke’s gazelle
- Broad-toothed mouse
- Japanese macaque
- Moonshine shrew
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine
- Big hairy armadillo
- Preuss’s red colobus
- Smoky flying squirrel
- Blue duiker
- Arabian tahr
Animals that get as old as a Malayan tapir
Other animals that usually reach the age of 30 years:
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with 32 years
- Black crested mangabey with 26.75 years
- Daubenton’s bat with 28 years
- Sika deer with 25.42 years
- Red-tailed monkey with 28.25 years
- Giant anteater with 26 years
- Wolf with 29.5 years
- Drill (animal) with 33.33 years
- South American sea lion with 24.75 years
- Bearded seal with 31.42 years
Animals with the same weight as a Malayan tapir
What other animals weight around 309.61 kg (682.56 lbs)?
- Burchell’s zebra usually reaching 278.08 kgs (613.06 lbs)
- Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin usually reaching 280 kgs (617.29 lbs)
- Takin usually reaching 292.76 kgs (645.42 lbs)
- Leopard seal usually reaching 352.84 kgs (777.88 lbs)
- Mediterranean monk seal usually reaching 294.94 kgs (650.23 lbs)
- Bongo (antelope) usually reaching 269.5 kgs (594.15 lbs)
- Tamaraw usually reaching 252.7 kgs (557.11 lbs)
- Mountain zebra usually reaching 279.73 kgs (616.7 lbs)
- Bearded seal usually reaching 280 kgs (617.29 lbs)
- Muskox usually reaching 312.67 kgs (689.32 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Malayan tapir
Also reaching around 2.22 meter (7′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Giant eland gets as big as 2.52 meter (8′ 4″)
- Mountain nyala gets as big as 2.25 meter (7′ 5″)
- Common eland gets as big as 2.66 meter (8′ 9″)
- Short-beaked common dolphin gets as big as 2.44 meter (8′ 1″)
- Pacific white-sided dolphin gets as big as 2.21 meter (7′ 3″)
- Sambar deer gets as big as 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- Caribbean monk seal gets as big as 2.29 meter (7′ 7″)
- Baird’s tapir gets as big as 2.2 meter (7′ 3″)
- Moose gets as big as 2.1 meter (6′ 11″)
- Grey seal gets as big as 2.08 meter (6′ 10″)