How many baby Mountain zebras are in a litter?
A Mountain zebra (Equus zebra) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 363 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 29.5 kg (65.03 lbs) and measure 100 cm (3′ 4″). They are a member of the Equidae family (genus: Equus). An adult Mountain zebra grows up to a size of 2.35 meter (7′ 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 mountain zebra (Equus zebra) is a zebra species in the family Equidae.It is native to south-western Angola, Namibia, and South Africa.
Other animals of the family Equidae
Mountain zebra is a member of the Equidae, as are these animals:
- Asinus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Horse with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kiang weighting around 280.57 kilograms (618.55 lbs)
- Plains zebra becoming 20 years old
- Grévy’s zebra with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Equus onager weighting around 205 kilograms (451.95 lbs)
- Onager with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Burchell’s zebra with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mountain zebra
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat
- Southern muriqui
- Tapeti
- Green bush squirrel
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine
- Fallow deer
- Malagasy giant rat
- Springbok
- Alpine ibex
- Collared titi
Animals that get as old as a Mountain zebra
Other animals that usually reach the age of 24 years:
- White-lipped peccary with 21 years
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with 24.5 years
- Cape porcupine with 20 years
- Goitered gazelle with 20 years
- Subantarctic fur seal with 23 years
- Red wolf with 20 years
- Leopard with 23 years
- Ocelot with 20.25 years
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo with 21 years
- White-bellied spider monkey with 28 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain zebra
What other animals weight around 279.73 kg (616.7 lbs)?
- Pygmy hippopotamus usually reaching 231 kgs (509.27 lbs)
- Anoa usually reaching 256 kgs (564.38 lbs)
- Crabeater seal usually reaching 225 kgs (496.04 lbs)
- Takin usually reaching 292.76 kgs (645.42 lbs)
- Burchell’s zebra usually reaching 278.08 kgs (613.06 lbs)
- Okapi usually reaching 230 kgs (507.06 lbs)
- Common bottlenose dolphin usually reaching 281.02 kgs (619.54 lbs)
- Malayan tapir usually reaching 309.61 kgs (682.57 lbs)
- Sable antelope usually reaching 235.2 kgs (518.53 lbs)
- Baird’s tapir usually reaching 292.39 kgs (644.61 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mountain zebra
Also reaching around 2.35 meter (7′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Tamaraw gets as big as 2.2 meter (7′ 3″)
- Hartebeest gets as big as 1.98 meter (6′ 6″)
- Malayan tapir gets as big as 2.22 meter (7′ 4″)
- Giant forest hog gets as big as 2.03 meter (6′ 8″)
- Dwarf sperm whale gets as big as 2.16 meter (7′ 2″)
- Bongo (antelope) gets as big as 2.27 meter (7′ 6″)
- Crabeater seal gets as big as 2.28 meter (7′ 6″)
- Caribbean monk seal gets as big as 2.29 meter (7′ 7″)
- Red deer gets as big as 2.14 meter (7′ 1″)
- Water buffalo gets as big as 2.65 meter (8′ 9″)