Which Animal Has the Most Babies at Once

now when it comes to biology any species primary goal is to perpetuate itself our own species usually makes about one successor at a time well a queen ant can make thousands in a day that's far from the maximum but let's start small on roughly how many offspring this planet's animals can have aardvark one cub these guys are super diggers they can excavate two feet in 15 seconds elephants giraffes camel zebras and humans also typically have a single youngling at a time crane two eggs cranes and other birds don't actually have backward needs the visible joint in the middle of their leg is the ankle and they walk on their toes cheetah three Cubs the world's fastest land animal can go from zero to 60 in three seconds but it can't roar like other big cats platypus for eggs it's the only mammal that lays eggs scientists at first couldn't believe descriptions of the platypus and took it as a joke star-nosed mole five pups their strange nose isn't for smelling they use it to touch 12 different places on the ground at once it's the most nerve packed sensitive organ known in any mammal field mouse six pups baby mice are also called pinkies so now you know females are doze and males are bucks just like deer raccoon seven Cubs those adorable black mask's around their eyes keep Sun glares out just like football players put black stripes under their eyes brown rat eight pups they produce a cheerful sound like laughter when they play or feel happy great white shark nine pups although they get twenty feet long and weigh about 2,000 pounds they're by far not the biggest shark species that would be the 55 foot whale shark Suriname toad ten eggs the babies live on their mother's back for the first few months of life these toads look as if they don't have eyes but they're just really tiny EMU 11 eggs they're the only bird species that have calf muscles they can't fly because they're too big and heavy but they can run 30 miles per hour Fox 12 pups you can tell the type of a fox by its tail red foxes have white tips and Swift foxes tips are black these canines also have partially retractable claws and vertical pupils like cats Virginia opossum 13 Joey's these animals don't get to choose when they play possum they actually pass out involuntarily from fear and stress duck 14 ducklings they have a unique net-like pattern of blood vessels in their feet that keep them warm even when walking on ice or swimming in freezing cold waters European rabbit 15 Kip's they purr like cats when they're happy or relaxed and their teeth never stop growing rabbits must constantly wear them down by chewing on grass and veggies in your yard bull head shark 16 eggs their eggs are spiral like a corkscrew they get their name from their short blunt snout African wild dog 20 pups they walk more than 30 miles a day to find food wild dogs have longer legs than domesticated pooches grey partridge 22 eggs jeepers that young partridges can already fly two weeks after hatching it takes humans 10 months to start crawling golden hamster 23 puffs their cheeks can fit an amount of food that equals their body weight that can be handy galapagos tortoise 24 a's these animals can live up to 150 years and the tortoise wasn't named after the island it was the other way around woodlouse 28 they're the only crustaceans than crabs lobsters etc that live on the land they roll up in a when scared tailless tenrec 32 they actually do have a tail it's just very little American alligator 58 they can go through 3,000 teeth in their lifetime boa constrictor 60 snake 'lets they grow over 15 feet long and live up to 40 years snakes themselves have been around for 150 million years caiman 65 like all crocodilians Caymans have changed very little throughout all their 200 million year existence glowworm 75 yeah they really do glow it helps them attract others of their kind jellyfish one hundred ninety five percent of their body is water jellyfish have been sent to space and one species is immortal fly 120 eggs they don't have to eat food to taste it just walking on it is enough since their feet have taste receptors tiny hairs on their feet also help them stand upside down on ceilings tetra 130 though they seem peaceful they're in the same family with piranhas cuttlefish 200 they can see behind themselves and hunt by hypnotizing their food now that doesn't seem fair leafy sea dragon 250 eggs they use their leaf like appearance to hide from enemies they're in the same family as seahorses salamander 300 some of these species have tongues up to ten times longer than their body cockroach 320 their tube shaped hearts have 13 chambers humans only have four sea slug 500 some grow up to a foot in length while others are smaller than an aspirin angelfish 600 they're good pets and can recognize their owner millipede 700 they're born with only three pairs of legs and grow 200 more throughout their life axolotl 800 this name comes from the way ancient Aztecs called them and translates as water dog barnacle 900 there are filter feeders that attach to crabs whales and the shells of sea turtles oh and boats to seahorse 1,000 the male seahorse carries eggs on its tail for 20 days before they can finally hatch horned frog 1500 they're also known as the pac-man frog thanks to their appetite and largemouth African clawed frog mm they're named for their unique feet their hind legs have clawed toes that they used to grip and shred their food ladybug they're technically lady beetles not bugs and their larvae look nothing like their adult form honeybee 2501 B has to fly about ninety thousand miles the equivalent of three times around the globe to make one pound of honey no wonder they're busy piranha five thousand eggs they changed their razor-sharp teeth every 100 days lionfish eight thousand their spikes are venomous but the fish don't use them to hunt they're just for protection more rate eel ten thousand they have two sets of Jaws when is deeper in their mouth and helps pull food in that's some are a hermit crab fifteen thousand they use abandoned sea snail shells to protect their body and change it as they grow out of it electric eel 17000 it can generate 500 volts of electric shock the power sockets in your house carry only 120 shocking bullfrog twenty thousand its best known for its loud cow like calls termite forty thousand if you put all the termites on earth on a scale their total weight would be 445 mil in times do the same with humans and it would only read 350 million tons ghost moth fifty thousand moths are expert of impersonating other animals using their camouflage to hide horseshoe crab ninety thousand they actually aren't crabs they're more closely related to scorpions and in spiders look under the shell and you'll see octopus one hundred thousand they don't have tentacles they have arms tentacles are what squids have two of longer with suction cups only on the end along with their eight arms lined entirely with suction cups black garden ant 300,000 their queen can live for 30 years while female workers survive for one to three years and the male's lasts only a few weeks Atlantic sturgeon 500,000 they're known to reach up to eight hundred pounds and measure 14 feet in length shrimp 950,000 a snapping shrimp can close its claws so fast it creates a sound louder than fireworks going on starfish two million they have two stomachs but no brain and blood and live up to 35 years sub-saharan driver ant 3 million their Queen lays over 250 million eggs during her lifetime in miles best to Mars and back she can also get 2 inches long almost the length of a golf tee oyster 4 million when Easter can filter 50 gallons of water and lots of them can serve as an effective natural barrier to a storm sea urchin 20 million the red sea urchin is one of the longest living animals on the planet it can live up to 200 years Pacific bluefin tuna 25 million this fish lives up to 40 years and migrates from the western Pacific to the East covering one-third of the planet's surface area sunfish 300 million eggs they sunbathe near the surface before going into deep water they can also weigh 5,000 pounds as much as a rhino finally we have the giant clam 500 million eggs unlike other clams the giant 4 foot wide clam can't close its shell completely so he really can't clam up bye-bye

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Published: Sat Jun 27 2020