How many offspring do non-human animals have?
For domestic animals, dogs seem to take the medal for most babies. In 2005, a Neapolitan bull mastiff in England broke a world record when the mother dog gave birth to a litter of 24 puppies, according to media reports. And on Dec. 23, 2008 a 3-year-old Dalmatian named Button living in the United Kingdom gave birth to 18 puppies by Caesarean section, according to British media reports. Last year, Button gave birth to a litter of 16 pups. Perhaps fittingly, the Dalmatian mother is the daughter of a dog that starred in the Disney film 102 Dalmatians. The average number of puppies in a litter ranges from six to 10, according to the Humane Society of the United States. The average number of kittens in a litter is around four to six. For wild animals, the tailless tenrec (Tenrec ecaudatus), a shrew-like mammal, can give birth to up to around 31 offspring, although the normal litter size ranges from 12 to 15, according to the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Females are able to suck
