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Poppy's birth was unique: It was Iris' first time giving birth in water, according to a news release. Though most common hippos give birth in water, pygmy hippos also can give birth on land.
The common hippopotamus gives birth and mates only in the water, but pygmy hippos mate and give birth on both land and water. Young pygmy hippos can swim almost immediately. At birth, pygmy hippos weigh 4.5–6.2 kg (9.9–13.7 lb) with males weighing about 0.25 kg (0.55 lb) more than females.
Though most common hippos give birth in water, pygmy hippos can also give birth on land. A female baby pygmy hippopotamus was born at the Metro Richmond Zoo in Virginia on Dec. 9, 2024.
Pygmy marmosets are not seasonal breeders and usually give birth to twins once or twice a year. [24] Single births, however, occur in 16% and triplet births occur in 8% of pregnancies. [18] The pygmy marmoset is usually monogamous, though some variation happens within the species in terms of breeding systems.
Achondroplasia can be detected before birth by prenatal ultrasound, although signs are often subtle and not apparent before the 24th week of pregnancy. [27] A DNA test can be performed before birth to detect homozygosity , wherein two copies of the mutant gene are inherited, a lethal condition leading to stillbirths .
Dwarfism is a condition of people and animals marked by unusually small size or short stature. [1] In humans, it is sometimes defined as an adult height of less than 147 centimetres (4 ft 10 in), regardless of sex; the average adult height among people with dwarfism is 120 centimetres (4 ft).
Primordial dwarfism (PD) is a form of dwarfism that results in a smaller body size in all stages of life beginning from before birth. [1] More specifically, primordial dwarfism is a diagnostic category including specific types of profoundly proportionate dwarfism, in which individuals are extremely small for their age, even as a fetus.
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