What animal has the most babies in one litter?

The tailless tenrec
tenrec
A tenrec is any species of mammal within the afrotherian family Tenrecidae endemic to Madagascar. Tenrecs are widely diverse; as a result of convergent evolution some resemble hedgehogs, shrews, opossums, rats, or mice. They occupy aquatic, arboreal, terrestrial and fossorial environments.
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of Madagascar has litters of up to 32, according to the IUCN, while the naked mole rat has an average of 28. A tailess tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus) in Madagascar.
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What animal can have the largest litter?

Arctic Foxes hold an interesting record. They have the largest litters of any wild mammal in the world. While the average is 11 puppies, litters with 22 puppies have been recorded in Russia.
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Which animal gives birth to the most babies at once?

Humans have been known to give birth to up to eight babies at any one time, but that doesn't even bring us close to the biggest mammal litters. Probably the Tailless Tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus) of Madagascar, although it depends how you measure it.
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What animals have multiple babies?

Sheep and goats produce 1 to 3 offspring per gestation on average and can produce two litters per year. Both species sometimes give birth to quadruplets and on rare occasions even more. Pygmy and Nigerian dwarf goats are especially likely to produce more than 3 kids per gestation.
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What animal gets pregnant by itself?

The boa constrictor, monitor lizard and Komodo dragon are both capable of becoming pregnant without male fertilization, by parthenogenesis.
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What animal is pregnant the longest?

Elephants have the longest pregnancy period of any living mammal. If you – or someone you know – has experienced a pregnancy that seemed to go on forever, spare a thought for the elephant. It's the animal with one of the longest gestation periods of all living mammals: nearly two years.
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What animal has no brain?

Almost all animals have a brain, but there are a few exceptions. There is one organism that has no brain or nervous tissue of any kind: the sponge. Sponges are simple animals, surviving on the sea floor by taking nutrients into their porous bodies.
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Which mammal never drink water?

Answer: Kangaroo rat

The tiny kangaroo rat located in the south-western deserts of the United States does not drink water for its whole lifespan. Kangaroo rats represent an integral part of desert life. Sometimes, other species eat them for the water in their bodies.
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What is the only animal that never sleeps?

Bullfrogs… No rest for the Bullfrog. The bullfrog was chosen as an animal that doesn't sleep because when tested for responsiveness by being shocked, it had the same reaction whether awake or resting.
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Which breed has the most puppies?

Largest Known Litter Size

In 2009, A Neapolitan Mastiff named Tia broke the Guinness world record by giving birth to 15 male puppies and 9 female puppies.
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What is the biggest litter a dog has had?

The Guinness World Record for the largest litter is 24 puppies. They were born in Cambridgeshire in 2004.
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What animal never dies?

To date, there's only one species that has been called 'biologically immortal': the jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii. These small, transparent animals hang out in oceans around the world and can turn back time by reverting to an earlier stage of their life cycle.
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What animal has 32 brains?

Leech has 32 brains. A leech's internal structure is segregated into 32 separate segments, and each of these segments has its own brain.
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Which animal can not walk backwards?

Kangaroos. Kangaroos are well known as large, hopping mammals from Australia that carry their offspring in pouches. What may not be so well known, though, is that kangaroos cannot walk backwards. Their hopping movement is called saltation.
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Which animal dies after drinking water?

Kangaroo rats die after drinking water. Kangaroo rats, also known as desert rats, have metabolism in which their body produces the required amount of water. It fulfils its nutrition and water requirements from the seeds it eats and the body's metabolism mechanism.
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Is there an animal that can heal itself?

Axolotl. A relative of the salamander but even more skilled at regenerating is the axolotl. This animal can regenerate not just its tail but also limbs, skin and almost any other body part.
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Which animal can live without oxygen?

It's still unclear how it gets energy

In a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , researchers have now identified the first animal that doesn't use oxygen to breathe: Henneguya salminicola, an 8-millimeter white parasite that infects the flesh of Chinook salmon.
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What animal has blue milk?

Hippopotamus gives the milk of blue color. Blue milk, also known as Bantha milk, was a rich blue-colored milk produced by female banthas. Sentients drank it, and also used it in bantha butter, blue bantha buttermilk biscuits, blue-milk cheese, blue milk custard, ice cream, and yogurt.
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Which animal blood is blue in Colour?

Snails, spiders and octopi have something in common- they all have blue blood! We're not talking in the sense of royalty, these creatures literally have blue blood. So why is their blood blue and ours red? One of the purposes of blood is to carry oxygen around the body.
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Which animal has no tongue?

Other animals naturally have no tongues, such as sea stars, sea urchins and other echinoderms, as well as crustaceans, says Chris Mah via email. Mah is a marine invertebrate zoologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and has discovered numerous species of sea stars.
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What is the shortest time a woman has been pregnant?

This mom gave birth in just two minutes, and while it might be the shortest labor and delivery ever recorded, a fast or precipitate labor is not always a good thing. An Australian mother wins the award for shortest labor ever after giving birth to her fifth child in two minutes flat.
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How long are lions pregnant for?

Gestation in lions is about 110 days and mean litter size is 2.3 (Schaller 1972). Females cease lactation when their cubs are 5-8 mo old (Schaller 1972), but do not resume sexual activity until their cubs are about 18 mo old (Bertram 1975; Packer and Pusey 1983).
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What animal sleeps its whole life away?

Giant Armadillos

Another nocturnal animal who needs to sleep a lot, this creature can sleep for 16-18 hours a day. Giant armadillos essentially spend all day in their burrow, sleeping the day away.
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What animal never closes its eyes?

As weird and impossible as this might seem to us humans, whose sleep is directly and entirely associated with closing one's eyes (or eyelids), fish don't close their eyes. The reason is simple: they don't have eyelids (except sharks).
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