are all baby animals born in spring?

Question

aside from dogs

Answer 1

Simple answer is no.

Most domsticated animals will breed year round (like humans). It's a trait we encouraged in domestic animals, so we could have a ready source of food and milk in our domestic livestock all year round.

Some wild animals also give birth in the winter also, like bears. The bear cubs are tiny when they are born. The mother is in her den, sleeping (bears do not really hibernate) during the winter. She gives birth to the tiny cubs, and nurses them with milk made from the fat her body stores When the mother bear (known as a sow) wakes up in the spring, her cubs are already a couple of months old.

Most wild herbivores (plant eaters), who live in season parts of the world, have babies in the early spring. This give the babies the best chance of growing large, strong, and putting on some fat before winter.

Wild herbivores who live where it is not seasonal (near the equator), often breed all year round. Those animals however do not usually live in herds or groups. Near the equator, food grows all year long, so they can have babies all year long. (There are some exceptions to the group thing, in the rodent family)

Most carnivore animals (meat eaters) have babies on the same cycle as their main prey animals.

Bears are one of the exception animals, but of course they are omnivores, so stand a much better chance of finding food early in the spring, before many young herbivor animals have been born.

By the way, there are also some birds, like Magpies which breed off season. Magpies hatch their eggs in late winter.

~Garnet
Homesteading/Farming over 20 years
Studing wildlife over 40 years

Answer 2

Many animals have a very short gestation period and have litters all year, while it is warm enough. Animals with longer gestation periods tend to mate in the fall and have offspring in the spring, avoiding the harsh winter.(in the northern hemisphere). In thoroghbred race horses they are all registered as born Jan. 1st, so some that race are much younger(born later in the spring) than the others .

Answer 3

The birthing season for lambs happens to be the spring. This has to do with the environment wild sheep developed in and the needs of growing babies. A stork flutters along within a bundle of baby lamb in the spring, and this is the time when there's enough grass for the mother sheep to feed herself with and produce milk. As the lamb gets older, the natural food supply increases, and it can drink milk and start munching away through the summer and into the autumn. Assuming nothing untoward intervenes, such as being mugged by a wolf, the lamb has time to build up food reserves so as to help it through the hard times of the winter. Imagine the stork arriving in autumn. The food supply is growing scarcer. The little lamb will be growing up at a time of the year when it can't build up supplies in its body. Winter comes and the lamb would be magically transformed into a dead duck. While not all the above is literally meant, I hope it conveys the general idea.

Answer 4

No not all baby animals are born in spring.

Answer 5

No, just like human babies are not all born in spring, baby animals are not all born in spring.

Answer 6

Animals that hibernate (like bears) often have their babies while in hibernation. The babies are born very tiny and the mother has to go into hibernation very fat to be able to sustain herself and the babies until coming out in spring.

Answer 7

not all animals are born in spring,but mostly are,better survival chances in the harsh elements and food resources are better.

Answer 8

No--My cat died in January and none of the shelters had kittens because they were "out of season"
Someone that worked with my then husband had found one at church the next day.
<<< He's 9 now :-)

Answer 9

It gives them the best chance of survival as that is when food is more plentiful and the weather is at its best (going into summer).

Winter births would not survive due to lack of food and cold weather.

Answer 10

no.Humans are animals,and they are born all year long.