How many baby Mediterranean monk seals are in a litter?
A Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 334 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 20 kg (44.09 lbs) and measure 3.4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phocidae family (genus: Monachus). An adult Mediterranean monk seal grows up to a size of 2.6 meter (8′ 7″).
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 Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is a monk seal belonging to the family Phocidae. As of 2015, it is estimated that fewer than 700 individuals survive in three or four isolated subpopulations in the Mediterranean, (especially) in the Aegean Sea, the archipelago of Madeira and the Cabo Blanco area in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. It is believed to be the world’s rarest pinniped species.
Other animals of the family Phocidae
Mediterranean monk seal is a member of the Phocidae, as are these animals:
- Hooded seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ribbon seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hawaiian monk seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Baikal seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ringed seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Crabeater seal becoming 39 years old
- Northern elephant seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bearded seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern elephant seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Harp seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mediterranean monk seal
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
- California mouse
- Sun bear
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat
- Chital
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Celebes crested macaque
- Pig-tailed langur
- Southern elephant seal
Animals that get as old as a Mediterranean monk seal
Other animals that usually reach the age of 23.67 years:
- Bald uakari with 27 years
- Vicuña with 24.75 years
- Wild boar with 21 years
- Black-fronted duiker with 19.67 years
- Fossa (animal) with 20 years
- Sunda slow loris with 26.5 years
- Sitatunga with 21.5 years
- Cacomistle with 23 years
- Antarctic fur seal with 23 years
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo with 21 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mediterranean monk seal
What other animals weight around 294.94 kg (650.23 lbs)?
- Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin usually reaching 280 kgs (617.29 lbs)
- Red deer usually reaching 240.43 kgs (530.06 lbs)
- Leopard seal usually reaching 352.84 kgs (777.88 lbs)
- Tamaraw usually reaching 252.7 kgs (557.11 lbs)
- Common bottlenose dolphin usually reaching 281.02 kgs (619.54 lbs)
- Bearded seal usually reaching 280 kgs (617.29 lbs)
- Takin usually reaching 292.76 kgs (645.42 lbs)
- New Zealand sea lion usually reaching 273.67 kgs (603.34 lbs)
- Roan antelope usually reaching 262.09 kgs (577.81 lbs)
- Mountain zebra usually reaching 279.73 kgs (616.7 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mediterranean monk seal
Also reaching around 2.6 meter (8′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Crabeater seal gets as big as 2.28 meter (7′ 6″)
- American bison gets as big as 2.85 meter (9′ 5″)
- Pantropical spotted dolphin gets as big as 2.14 meter (7′ 1″)
- Mountain nyala gets as big as 2.25 meter (7′ 5″)
- Moose gets as big as 2.83 meter (9′ 4″)
- Grey seal gets as big as 2.08 meter (6′ 10″)
- Onager gets as big as 2.25 meter (7′ 5″)
- Bongo (antelope) gets as big as 2.27 meter (7′ 6″)
- Reindeer gets as big as 2.23 meter (7′ 4″)
- Pacific white-sided dolphin gets as big as 2.21 meter (7′ 3″)