How many baby Northern giraffes are in a litter?
A Northern giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) 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 455 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 55.22 kg (121.74 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Giraffidae family (genus: Giraffa). An adult Northern giraffe grows up to a size of 4.18 meter (13′ 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.
See Giraffe for details of how this proposed taxonomy fits with the currently accepted taxonomy of giraffes.The northern giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), also known as three-horned giraffe, is the type species of giraffe native to North Africa.In the current IUCN taxonomic scheme, there is only one species of giraffe with the name G. camelopardalis and nine subspecies, but alternative taxonomic hypotheses have proposed two to eleven species.Once abundant throughout Africa since the 19th century, it ranged from Senegal, Mali and Nigeria from West Africa to up north in Egypt. The West African giraffes once lived in Algeria and Morocco in ancient periods until their extinctions due to the Saharan dry climate. It is isolated in South Sudan, Kenya, Chad and Niger.All giraffes are considered Vulnerable to extinction by the IUCN. In 2016, around 97,000 individuals from all subspecies were present in the wild. There are currently 5,195 northern giraffes.
Other animals of the family Giraffidae
Northern giraffe is a member of the Giraffidae, as are these animals:
- Okapi with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Northern giraffe
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Bornean orangutan
- Microcebus coquereli
- Walia ibex
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel
- Delacour’s langur
- Atlantic bamboo rat
- Caspian seal
- Jaguar
- Eared hutia
- Long-tongued nectar bat
Animals that get as old as a Northern giraffe
Other animals that usually reach the age of 36.25 years:
- Pileated gibbon with 36 years
- Mona monkey with 30 years
- Brown long-eared bat with 30 years
- Drill (animal) with 33.33 years
- Stump-tailed macaque with 30 years
- Anoa with 36 years
- Toque macaque with 35 years
- Hamadryas baboon with 40 years
- Western long-beaked echidna with 31 years
- Little brown bat with 34 years
Animals with the same weight as a Northern giraffe
What other animals weight around 959.83 kg (2116.05 lbs)?
- Water buffalo usually reaching 924.25 kgs (2037.62 lbs)
- Hector’s beaked whale usually reaching 1000 kgs (2204.62 lbs)
- Black rhinoceros usually reaching 986.47 kgs (2174.79 lbs)
- Sumatran rhinoceros usually reaching 1038.08 kgs (2288.57 lbs)
- Northern elephant seal usually reaching 1116.2 kgs (2460.8 lbs)
- Walrus usually reaching 1045.33 kgs (2304.56 lbs)
- Kouprey usually reaching 788.66 kgs (1738.7 lbs)
- Narwhal usually reaching 938.06 kgs (2068.07 lbs)
- Gayal usually reaching 800.07 kgs (1763.85 lbs)
- Long-finned pilot whale usually reaching 800 kgs (1763.7 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Northern giraffe
Also reaching around 4.18 meter (13′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Southern elephant seal gets as big as 3.69 meter (12′ 2″)
- Northern elephant seal gets as big as 3.72 meter (12′ 3″)
- Beluga whale gets as big as 4.25 meter (14′ 0″)
- Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale gets as big as 4.88 meter (16′ 1″)
- Andrews’ beaked whale gets as big as 4.26 meter (14′ 0″)
- Pygmy beaked whale gets as big as 3.72 meter (12′ 3″)
- Blainville’s beaked whale gets as big as 4.59 meter (15′ 1″)
- African manatee gets as big as 3.5 meter (11′ 6″)
- West Indian manatee gets as big as 3.5 meter (11′ 6″)
- Indian rhinoceros gets as big as 3.74 meter (12′ 4″)