How many baby Tamaraws are in a litter?
A Tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis) 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 306 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5.88 kg (12.96 lbs) and measure 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Bubalus). An adult Tamaraw grows up to a size of 2.2 meter (7′ 3″).
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 tamaraw or Mindoro dwarf buffalo (Bubalus mindorensis) is a small hoofed mammal belonging to the family Bovidae. It is endemic to the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, and is the only endemic Philippine bovine. It is believed, however, to have once also thrived on the larger island of Luzon. The tamaraw was originally found all over Mindoro, from sea level up to the mountains (2000 meters above sea level), but because of human habitation, hunting, and logging, it is now restricted to only a few remote grassy plains and is now a critically endangered species.Contrary to common belief and past classification, the tamaraw is not a subspecies of the local carabao, which is only slightly larger, or the common water buffalo. In contrast to the carabao, it has a number of distinguishing characteristics: it is slightly hairier, has light markings on its face, is not gregarious, and has shorter horns that are somewhat V-shaped. It is the second largest native terrestrial mammal in the country next only to the carabao.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Tamaraw is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Himalayan goral with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red hartebeest becoming 15.25 years old
- Harvey’s duiker weighting around 14.5 kilograms (31.97 lbs)
- European bison with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nilgiri tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nubian ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pyrenean chamois weighting around 30 kilograms (66.14 lbs)
- Silver dik-dik with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kirk’s dik-dik with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Tamaraw
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Harnessed bushbuck
- La Plata dolphin
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine
- Red-necked pademelon
- Scimitar oryx
- Micronycteris nicefori
- Livingstone’s fruit bat
- Père David’s vole
- TarabundĂ vole
- Ozimops planiceps
Animals that get as old as a Tamaraw
Other animals that usually reach the age of 28 years:
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with 23 years
- Eastern gray squirrel with 24 years
- Blue monkey with 27.08 years
- Western long-beaked echidna with 31 years
- Striped hyena with 24 years
- Aardvark with 24 years
- Bonnet macaque with 30 years
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey with 27.25 years
- Patas monkey with 23.83 years
- Eastern grey kangaroo with 24 years
Animals with the same weight as a Tamaraw
What other animals weight around 252.7 kg (557.1 lbs)?
- Okapi usually reaching 230 kgs (507.06 lbs)
- Takin usually reaching 292.76 kgs (645.42 lbs)
- Baird’s tapir usually reaching 292.39 kgs (644.61 lbs)
- New Zealand sea lion usually reaching 273.67 kgs (603.34 lbs)
- Kiang usually reaching 280.57 kgs (618.55 lbs)
- Mountain zebra usually reaching 279.73 kgs (616.7 lbs)
- Crabeater seal usually reaching 225 kgs (496.04 lbs)
- Sable antelope usually reaching 235.2 kgs (518.53 lbs)
- Hooded seal usually reaching 278.95 kgs (614.98 lbs)
- Waterbuck usually reaching 203.2 kgs (447.98 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Tamaraw
Also reaching around 2.2 meter (7′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Caribbean monk seal gets as big as 2.29 meter (7′ 7″)
- Polar bear gets as big as 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Spectacled bear gets as big as 1.77 meter (5′ 10″)
- Hawaiian monk seal gets as big as 2.24 meter (7′ 5″)
- Atlantic spotted dolphin gets as big as 2.13 meter (7′ 0″)
- Australian sea lion gets as big as 1.8 meter (5′ 11″)
- African buffalo gets as big as 2.53 meter (8′ 4″)
- Lion gets as big as 1.84 meter (6′ 1″)
- Greater kudu gets as big as 2.2 meter (7′ 3″)
- Mountain nyala gets as big as 2.25 meter (7′ 5″)