How many baby White rhinoceross are in a litter?
A White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 534 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 48.5 kg (106.92 lbs) and measure 20 cm (0′ 8″). They are a member of the Rhinocerotidae family (genus: Ceratotherium). An adult White rhinoceros grows up to a size of 2.59 meter (8′ 6″).
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 rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is the largest extant species of rhinoceros. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhinoceros consists of two subspecies: the southern white rhinoceros, with an estimated 19,682–21,077 wild-living animals in the year 2015, and the much rarer northern white rhinoceros. The northern subspecies has very few remaining individuals, with only two confirmed left in 2018 (two females; Fatu, 18 and Najin, 29), both in captivity. Sudan, the world’s last known male northern white rhinoceros, died in Kenya on 19 March 2018.
Other animals of the family Rhinocerotidae
White rhinoceros is a member of the Rhinocerotidae, as are these animals:
- Indian rhinoceros with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sumatran rhinoceros with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Javan rhinoceros with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black rhinoceros with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with White rhinoceros
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- White-beaked dolphin
- Handley’s tailless bat
- Harbor seal
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
- Argentine brown bat
- Bahamian hutia
- Melanomys caliginosus
- Black-winged little yellow bat
- Amazonian manatee
- Serotine bat
Animals that get as old as a White rhinoceros
Other animals that usually reach the age of 50 years:
- Guinea baboon with 40 years
- Bornean orangutan with 60 years
- Ringed seal with 46 years
- Sloth bear with 40 years
- Walrus with 40 years
- Spotted hyena with 41.08 years
- Harp seal with 42 years
- Ringed seal with 46 years
- Common minke whale with 50 years
- Striped dolphin with 50 years
Animals with the same weight as a White rhinoceros
What other animals weight around 2272.97 kg (5011.04 lbs)?
- True’s beaked whale usually reaching 2100 kgs (4629.7 lbs)
- Blainville’s beaked whale usually reaching 2300 kgs (5070.63 lbs)
- Shepherd’s beaked whale usually reaching 2500 kgs (5511.55 lbs)
- Andrews’ beaked whale usually reaching 2600 kgs (5732.01 lbs)
- Tropical bottlenose whale usually reaching 2200 kgs (4850.16 lbs)
- Indian rhinoceros usually reaching 1839.1 kgs (4054.52 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White rhinoceros
Also reaching around 2.59 meter (8′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Mountain zebra gets as big as 2.35 meter (7′ 9″)
- Dugong gets as big as 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)
- Giant eland gets as big as 2.52 meter (8′ 4″)
- Baird’s tapir gets as big as 2.2 meter (7′ 3″)
- Irrawaddy dolphin gets as big as 2.5 meter (8′ 3″)
- Kouprey gets as big as 2.18 meter (7′ 2″)
- Reindeer gets as big as 2.23 meter (7′ 4″)
- Banteng gets as big as 2.08 meter (6′ 10″)
- African buffalo gets as big as 2.53 meter (8′ 4″)
- Gayal gets as big as 2.7 meter (8′ 11″)