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Multiple birth (Zoology 🦥)

A multiple birth is the culmination of a multiple pregnancy, wherein the mother gives birth to two or more babies. A term most applicable to vertebrate species, multiple births occur in most kinds of mammals, with varying frequencies. Such births are often named according to the number of offspring, as in twins and triplets. In non-huma...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_birth

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Litter (zoology) (Zoology 🦥)

A litter is the live birth of multiple offspring at one time in animals from the same mother and usually from one set of parents, particularly from three to eight offspring. The word is most often used for the offspring of mammals, but can be used for any animal that gives birth to multiple young. In comparison, a group of eggs and the offspring t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_(zoology)

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The odds of quintuplets (let alone identical ones) is just 1 in 57,289,761. The New York Times once estimated that the chance of identical quins would be one in a billion.

10 facts about the Dionne Quintuplets

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2020/05/28-may-dionne-quintuplets.html

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