How many baby Mountain tapirs are in a litter?
A Mountain tapir (Tapirus pinchaque) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 393 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4.72 kg (10.41 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Tapiridae family (genus: Tapirus). An adult Mountain 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 mountain tapir, also known as the Andean tapir or woolly tapir (Tapirus pinchaque) is the smallest of the four widely recognized species of tapir. It is the only one to live outside of tropical rainforests in the wild. It is most easily distinguished from other tapirs by its thick woolly coat and white lips.The species name comes from the term “La Pinchaque”, an imaginary beast said to inhabit the same regions as the mountain tapir.
Other animals of the family Tapiridae
Mountain tapir is a member of the Tapiridae, as are these animals:
- Malayan tapir with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South American tapir with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Baird’s tapir with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mountain tapir
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Japanese serow
- Common ringtail possum
- Little forest bat
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat
- Eastern long-fingered bat
- Rhesus macaque
- Greater false vampire bat
- Northern ghost bat
- Van Gelder’s bat
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain tapir
What other animals weight around 155.46 kg (342.73 lbs)?
- Thorold’s deer usually reaching 161.68 kgs (356.44 lbs)
- Striped dolphin usually reaching 142.05 kgs (313.17 lbs)
- Dwarf sperm whale usually reaching 183.07 kgs (403.6 lbs)
- Siberian ibex usually reaching 130 kgs (286.6 lbs)
- Dusky dolphin usually reaching 127.25 kgs (280.54 lbs)
- Sambar deer usually reaching 176 kgs (388.01 lbs)
- Dwarf sperm whale usually reaching 183 kgs (403.45 lbs)
- Harp seal usually reaching 132.25 kgs (291.56 lbs)
- Bornean bearded pig usually reaching 135.4 kgs (298.51 lbs)
- Topi usually reaching 127.19 kgs (280.41 lbs)