How many baby South American sea lions are in a litter?
A South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 311 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 12.82 kg (28.26 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Otariidae family (genus: Otaria). An adult South American sea lion grows up to a size of 2.11 meter (7′ 0″).
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 South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens, formerly Otaria byronia), also called the Southern Sea Lion and the Patagonian sea lion, is a sea lion found on the Ecuadorian, Peruvian, Chilean, Falkland Islands, Argentinean, Uruguayan, and Southern Brazilian coasts. It is the only member of the genus Otaria. Its scientific name was subject to controversy, with some taxonomists referring to it as Otaria flavescens and others referring to it as Otaria byronia. The former eventually won out, although that may still be overturned. Locally, it is known by several names, most commonly lobo marino (es)/lobo marinho (pt) (sea wolf) and león marino (es)/leão marinho (pt) (sea lion) and the hair seal.
Other animals of the family Otariidae
South American sea lion is a member of the Otariidae, as are these animals:
- Antarctic fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- New Zealand sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Steller sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Subantarctic fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Australian sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South American sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Brown fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- South American fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Guadalupe fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Juan Fernández fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with South American sea lion
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Southern forest bat
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat
- Montane guinea pig
- Dent’s mona monkey
- African savanna hare
- Walrus
- Blue wildebeest
- Mountain goat
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum
- Dwarf sperm whale
Animals that get as old as a South American sea lion
Other animals that usually reach the age of 24.75 years:
- Père David’s deer with 23.25 years
- Giant anteater with 26 years
- Sooty mangabey with 26.75 years
- Aye-aye with 24.25 years
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo with 23.83 years
- Finless porpoise with 23 years
- Eastern grey kangaroo with 24 years
- Wild boar with 21 years
- Gemsbok with 20 years
- Barbary sheep with 21 years
Animals with the same weight as a South American sea lion
What other animals weight around 193.67 kg (426.97 lbs)?
- Sambar deer usually reaching 176 kgs (388.01 lbs)
- Grey seal usually reaching 197.29 kgs (434.95 lbs)
- Crabeater seal usually reaching 225 kgs (496.04 lbs)
- Fraser’s dolphin usually reaching 164 kgs (361.56 lbs)
- Black wildebeest usually reaching 156.55 kgs (345.13 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer usually reaching 161 kgs (354.94 lbs)
- Visayan warty pig usually reaching 189.4 kgs (417.56 lbs)
- White-beaked dolphin usually reaching 186.82 kgs (411.87 lbs)
- Caribbean monk seal usually reaching 198.38 kgs (437.35 lbs)
- South American tapir usually reaching 167.75 kgs (369.83 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a South American sea lion
Also reaching around 2.11 meter (7′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Reindeer gets as big as 2.23 meter (7′ 4″)
- Moose gets as big as 2.1 meter (6′ 11″)
- Greater kudu gets as big as 2.2 meter (7′ 3″)
- Dwarf sperm whale gets as big as 2.16 meter (7′ 2″)
- Saola gets as big as 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Juan Fernández fur seal gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Common tsessebe gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Pacific white-sided dolphin gets as big as 2.21 meter (7′ 3″)
- Northern fur seal gets as big as 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Asian elephant gets as big as 1.92 meter (6′ 4″)