How many baby Mooses are in a litter?
A Moose (Alces alces) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 235 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 13 kg (28.66 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Cervidae family (genus: Alces). An adult Moose grows up to a size of 2.83 meter (9′ 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 moose (North America) or elk (Eurasia), Alces alces, is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the largest and heaviest extant species in the deer family. Most adult male moose have distinctive broad, palmate (“open-hand shaped”) antlers; most other members of the deer family have antlers with a dendritic (“twig-like”) configuration. Moose typically inhabit boreal forests and temperate broadleaf and mixed forests of the Northern Hemisphere in temperate to subarctic climates. Hunting and other human activities have caused a reduction in the size of the moose’s range over time. It has been reintroduced to some of its former habitats. Currently, most moose occur in Canada, Alaska, New England (with Maine having the most of the lower 48 states), Fennoscandia, the Baltic states, and Russia. Its diet consists of both terrestrial and aquatic vegetation. The most common moose predators are the gray wolf along with bears and humans. Unlike most other deer species, moose do not form herds and are solitary animals, aside from calves who remain with their mother until the cow begins estrus (typically at 18 months after birth of the calf), at which point the cow chases away young bulls. Although generally slow-moving and sedentary, moose can become aggressive and move quickly if angered or startled. Their mating season in the autumn features energetic fights between males competing for a female.
Other animals of the family Cervidae
Moose is a member of the Cervidae, as are these animals:
- Gray brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sambar deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Moose with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pampas deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Schomburgk’s deer weighting around 107.63 kilograms (237.28 lbs)
- Javan rusa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Père David’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eld’s deer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Little red brocket with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Moose
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Kinkajou
- Fallow deer
- Asian elephant
- Tufted deer
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain
- Red acouchi
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat
- Homo sapiens
- Gerenuk
Animals that get as old as a Moose
Other animals that usually reach the age of 27 years:
- Northern plains gray langur with 25 years
- Common wombat with 26.08 years
- Asian palm civet with 22.42 years
- Rough-toothed dolphin with 32 years
- Northern olingo with 25 years
- Jaguar with 23 years
- Domestic yak with 22.25 years
- Brown woolly monkey with 30 years
- Coyote with 21.83 years
- Monk saki with 24.58 years
Animals with the same weight as a Moose
What other animals weight around 471.45 kg (1039.37 lbs)?
- Moose usually reaching 541.46 kgs (1193.71 lbs)
- Common eland usually reaching 561.8 kgs (1238.56 lbs)
- Dromedary usually reaching 490.36 kgs (1081.06 lbs)
- Bactrian camel usually reaching 550.76 kgs (1214.22 lbs)
- Plains zebra usually reaching 400 kgs (881.85 lbs)
- Weddell seal usually reaching 400 kgs (881.85 lbs)
- Risso’s dolphin usually reaching 387.25 kgs (853.74 lbs)
- Amazonian manatee usually reaching 418 kgs (921.53 lbs)
- African manatee usually reaching 454 kgs (1000.9 lbs)
- Domestic yak usually reaching 500 kgs (1102.31 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Moose
Also reaching around 2.83 meter (9′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Mediterranean monk seal gets as big as 2.6 meter (8′ 7″)
- White-beaked dolphin gets as big as 3.05 meter (10′ 1″)
- Bearded seal gets as big as 2.3 meter (7′ 7″)
- Steller sea lion gets as big as 2.7 meter (8′ 11″)
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin gets as big as 2.29 meter (7′ 6″)
- Striped dolphin gets as big as 2.3 meter (7′ 7″)
- Hooded seal gets as big as 2.33 meter (7′ 8″)
- Giant eland gets as big as 2.52 meter (8′ 4″)
- Grévy’s zebra gets as big as 2.7 meter (8′ 11″)
- Dugong gets as big as 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)