How many baby New Zealand sea lions are in a litter?
A New Zealand sea lion (Phocarctos hookeri) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 365 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 10.21 kg (22.51 lbs) and measure 77.1 cm (2′ 7″). They are a member of the Otariidae family (genus: Phocarctos). An adult New Zealand sea lion grows up to a size of 2.02 meter (6′ 8″).
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 New Zealand sea lion (Phocarctos hookeri), also known as Hooker’s sea lion, and whakahao in Māori, is a species of sea lion that primarily breeds on New Zealand’s subantarctic Auckland and Campbell islands and to some extent around the coast of New Zealand’s South and Stewart islands. The New Zealand sea lion numbers around 10,000 and is perhaps the world’s rarest sea lion species. They are the only species of the genus Phocarctos.
Other animals of the family Otariidae
New Zealand sea lion is a member of the Otariidae, as are these animals:
- South American sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South American sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Guadalupe fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Steller sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Subantarctic fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arctocephalus forsteri with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Antarctic fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Australian sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Galápagos fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with New Zealand sea lion
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Little yellow bat
- White-faced saki
- Rough-haired golden mole
- Javan slit-faced bat
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat
- Antillean fruit-eating bat
- Greater horseshoe bat
- Ribbon seal
- Iberian ibex
- Maroon leaf monkey
Animals with the same weight as a New Zealand sea lion
What other animals weight around 273.67 kg (603.33 lbs)?
- Takin usually reaching 292.76 kgs (645.42 lbs)
- Crabeater seal usually reaching 225 kgs (496.04 lbs)
- Crabeater seal usually reaching 225 kgs (496.04 lbs)
- Bongo (antelope) usually reaching 269.5 kgs (594.15 lbs)
- Sable antelope usually reaching 235.2 kgs (518.53 lbs)
- Okapi usually reaching 230 kgs (507.06 lbs)
- Dugong usually reaching 295 kgs (650.36 lbs)
- Malayan tapir usually reaching 309.61 kgs (682.57 lbs)
- Red deer usually reaching 240.43 kgs (530.06 lbs)
- Hooded seal usually reaching 278.95 kgs (614.98 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a New Zealand sea lion
Also reaching around 2.02 meter (6′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Juan Fernández fur seal gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Malayan tapir gets as big as 2.22 meter (7′ 4″)
- Red deer gets as big as 2.14 meter (7′ 1″)
- Asian elephant gets as big as 1.92 meter (6′ 4″)
- Anoa gets as big as 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Spinner dolphin gets as big as 2.13 meter (7′ 0″)
- Mountain zebra gets as big as 2.35 meter (7′ 9″)
- Kob gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Llama gets as big as 1.66 meter (5′ 6″)
- Dwarf sperm whale gets as big as 2.16 meter (7′ 2″)