What is the longest animal pregnancy?

The 22-month gestation period of the African elephant is the longest among the land mammals.

1. What animal has longest pregnancy?
2. What animal is pregnant the shortest?
3. What is the longest pregnancy?
4. What animal is pregnant for 9?
5. What animal is born pregnant?
6. What animal has the most painful birth?
7. Can a child be born pregnant?
8. What's the most overdue baby ever?
9. Can I stay pregnant for 5 years?
10. Do babies pee in the womb?

What animal has longest pregnancy?

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.

What animal is pregnant the shortest?

The shortest known gestation is that of the Virginian opossum, about 12 days, and the longest that of the Indian elephant, about 22 months. In the course of evolution the duration of gestation has become adapted to the needs of the species.

What is the longest pregnancy?

1. The longest recorded pregnancy was 375 days. According to a 1945 entry in Time Magazine, a woman named Beulah Hunter gave birth in Los Angeles nearly 100 days after the average 280-day pregnancy.

What animal is pregnant for 9?

Elephants have the longest gestation period of all mammals. These gentle giants' pregnancies last for more than a year and a half.

What animal is born pregnant?

Aphid. Aphids, tiny insects found the world over, are “essentially born pregnant,” says Ed Spevak, curator of invertebrates at the St. Louis Zoo.

What animal has the most painful birth?

Perhaps the most horrifying birth is that of the spotted hyena. Females of this species give birth through a narrow, penis-like, enlarged clitoris. Their offspring emerge from this unusual birthing organ, almost indistinguishable from the male penis of the species, after 120 days of gestation.

Can a child be born pregnant?

A baby born in Hong Kong was pregnant with her own siblings at the time of her birth, according to a new report of the infant's case. The baby's condition, known as fetus-in-fetu, is incredibly rare, occurring in only about 1 in every 500,000 births.

What's the most overdue baby ever?

Hunter had been pregnant 375 days (instead of the normal 280) before her baby was born there last week; 375 days would be the longest pregnancy on record, topping the runner-up by about 58 days.

Can I stay pregnant for 5 years?

Retention of the dead baby in utero for five years is virtually impossible to believe.

Do babies pee in the womb?

Do babies pee in the womb? While babies most often hold out on pooping until they're born, they are certainly active urinators in the womb. In fact, your baby's pee activity goes into overdrive between 13 and 16 weeks' gestation, when their kidneys are fully formed.