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This animal has a gestation period of 283 days and its young are known as “red dogs” because they are born orange-red in color. Symbol of the U.S. Dept. of the Interior.
What is a bison?
Gestation for this animal is 13 months for one calf, which may stay with its mother for up to 2 years. Found in Everglades NP eating lettuce.
What is a manatee?
An inhabitant of Saguaro NP, this species lays eggs 40-45 days after mating, which the female then incubates for 9-10 months, among the longest of any reptile. Despite venom, not as monstrous as they appear.
What is a Gila monster?
This animal has active gestation for 30-40 days, following a delayed implantation of the fertilized egg into the uterine wall, occurring 215-272 days after copulation. Maybe it's the adamantium?
What is a wolverine?
This animal has a gestation period of 30 days and its young are known as kits. Cutest animal in Grand Teton NP, hands down. Probably inspired Pokemon. Doesn't hibernate.
What is a pika?
Non-native to the Everglades NP, females of this species normally lay 12-36 eggs after a 60-90 days gestation period. Can grow to become alligator eaters!
What is a Burmese python?
They once ranged across the western plains but were thought extinct until a small population was discovered in 1981. Gestation is 41-43 days for 3-4 "kits," which are born blind and helpless. Now found in Badlands NP.
What is a black-footed ferret?
This animal's active gestation is 45 days, with implantation occurring between 138 and 220 days after copulation. Shoutout to all you Hufflepuffs out there!
What is a badger?
After a 245 day (8 mo) gestation, cows of this species will separate from the rest of the herd to give birth during the first two weeks of June. Mother and calf will then rejoin the herd after about 7-14 days.
What is an elk?
If adults of this species have not cannibalized the eggs, larvae will hatch after 14-21 days into tadpoles and then juvenile "eft." Their skin glands secrete tetrodotoxin, 100s of times more toxic than cyanide.
What is a California newt?
These inhabitants of Carlsbad Caverns NP gestate one pup for 90 days. First flight at 6-7 weeks. Claimed to have the fastest horizontal speed of any animal, reaching top speeds over 99 mph.
What is the Brazilian free-tailed bat?
This highly endangered, giant bird can be found in Pinnacles NP. It incubates for 53-60 days. Genetic tests revealed two instances of parthenogenesis, a.k.a. virgin births, in the last 20 years.
What is a California Condor?
Incubation/gestation is by both sexes of this species, 29-32 days. Young are called "colts," which leave the nest within a day. Known for screaming at night (as a way to signal danger).
What is a sandhill crane?
This critically endangered shark relative has a 12-mo gestation of 7–14 pups measuring over 2-ft long at (live) birth. Rostrum resembles a chainsaw.
What is a smalltooth sawfish?
This species has the smallest home range of any vertebrate on earth, as it is endemic to the top 24 m of a water hole in Death Valley NP. Incubation is on the order of 10 days and there may only be 100 left.
What is the Devils Hole Pupfish?
Mating only occurs during intense lightning strikes. The clashing of their antlers is mistaken for thunder. Gestation lasts around 2 years with litters up to 12, which are evicted by the parents after 18 months.
What is a jackalope?