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Baby Mammals
Longest pregnancy
The mammal which has the longest pregnancy (called the gestation ...
Amazing But True
The nine-banded armadillo gives birth to sets of identical quads. ...
Growing up fast
The striped tenrec in Madagascar is the mammal which grows up the ...
Shortest pregnancy
An American opossum has a pregnancy of only 12-14 days and it may ...
Most babies
The mammal which has the most young is the common vole. It can have ...
Egg layer
When the duck-billed platypus was discovered in 1797 people thought ...
Who am I?
An elephant in the Kruger National Park South Africa chose its own ...
Smallest babies
The smallest mammal babies are probably those of the mouse opossums ...
DID YOU KNOW?
All the pet hamsters in the world are descended from the same mother. ...
Marsupial mother
When a baby kangaroo, or 'joey', is born it is only about the size of ...
Tail first
The biggest animal baby is a blue whale calf. Unlike most mammals, ...