How many baby White-beaked dolphins are in a litter?
A White-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) 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 24 kg (52.91 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Delphinidae family (genus: Lagenorhynchus). An adult White-beaked dolphin grows up to a size of 3.05 meter (10′ 1″).
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 white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) is a marine mammal belonging to the family Delphinidae (oceanic dolphins) in the suborder Odontoceti (toothed whales).
Other animals of the family Delphinidae
White-beaked dolphin is a member of the Delphinidae, as are these animals:
- Fraser’s dolphin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hector’s dolphin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peale’s dolphin weighting around 120 kilograms (264.55 lbs)
- Risso’s dolphin becoming 20 years old
- Killer whale with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pygmy killer whale with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Melon-headed whale becoming 47 years old
- Tucuxi weighting around 42.82 kilograms (94.4 lbs)
- Short-beaked common dolphin becoming 20 years old
Animals that share a litter size with White-beaked dolphin
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Bawean deer
- Leadbeater’s possum
- Van Gelder’s bat
- Little Japanese horseshoe bat
- Painted bat
- South Andean deer
- Maned sloth
- Rufous elephant shrew
- Sharpe’s grysbok
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur
Animals with the same weight as a White-beaked dolphin
What other animals weight around 186.82 kg (411.86 lbs)?
- Gemsbok usually reaching 187.6 kgs (413.59 lbs)
- Grey seal usually reaching 197.29 kgs (434.95 lbs)
- Lion usually reaching 158.75 kgs (349.98 lbs)
- Giant forest hog usually reaching 196.57 kgs (433.36 lbs)
- Greater kudu usually reaching 205.53 kgs (453.12 lbs)
- Sambar deer usually reaching 177.52 kgs (391.36 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer usually reaching 161.68 kgs (356.44 lbs)
- Scimitar oryx usually reaching 198.4 kgs (437.4 lbs)
- Waterbuck usually reaching 203.2 kgs (447.98 lbs)
- Dwarf sperm whale usually reaching 183.07 kgs (403.6 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-beaked dolphin
Also reaching around 3.05 meter (10′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- European bison gets as big as 2.9 meter (9′ 7″)
- American bison gets as big as 2.85 meter (9′ 5″)
- Mediterranean monk seal gets as big as 2.6 meter (8′ 7″)
- Dugong gets as big as 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)
- Javan rhinoceros gets as big as 3.1 meter (10′ 3″)
- White rhinoceros gets as big as 2.59 meter (8′ 6″)
- Leopard seal gets as big as 3.05 meter (10′ 0″)
- Common eland gets as big as 2.66 meter (8′ 9″)
- Weddell seal gets as big as 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)
- Black rhinoceros gets as big as 2.85 meter (9′ 5″)