How big does a Beira (antelope) get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Beira (antelope) (Dorcatragus megalotis) reaches an average size of 77.9 cm (2′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 14 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 10.91 kg (24.05 lbs). A Beira (antelope) has 1 babies at once. The Beira (antelope) (genus: Dorcatragus) is a member of the family Bovidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The beira (Dorcatragus megalotis) is a small arid adapted antelope that inhabits arid regions of the Horn of Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Beira (antelope)
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Red gazelle bringing 40 kilos (88.18 lbs) to the scale
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest bringing 168.7 kilos (371.92 lbs) to the scale
- Siberian ibex with an average maximal age of 22.25 years
- Bontebok with 1 babies per litter
- Markhor with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Topi with an average maximal age of 12.5 years
- Muskox with 1 babies per litter
- Urial with 1 babies per litter
- East African oryx with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Arabian gazelle with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
Animals with the same size as a Beira (antelope)
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Beira (antelope):
- Wolverine with a size of 77.3 cm (2′ 7″)
- Black-footed gray langur with a size of 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- Binturong with a size of 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
- Side-striped jackal with a size of 74.7 cm (2′ 6″)
- Jungle cat with a size of 70.6 cm (2′ 4″)
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth with a size of 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Black musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Marine otter with a size of 67.8 cm (2′ 3″)
- Bush dog with a size of 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Japanese macaque with a size of 82.7 cm (2′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Beira (antelope)
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Beira (antelope):
- Northern fur seal
- Steller’s sea cow
- Long-tailed pangolin
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat
- Western mastiff bat
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel
- Sugar glider
- Long-winged tomb bat
- Four-striped ground squirrel
- Salt’s dik-dik
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Beira (antelope)
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Beira (antelope):
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Malabar large-spotted civet with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Water deer with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Red hartebeest with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Striped polecat with an average maximal age of 13.33 years
- Oribi with an average maximal age of 15.75 years
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Hog badger with an average maximal age of 13.92 years
- Greater mouse-deer with an average maximal age of 16.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Beira (antelope)
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dorcatragus megalotis:
- Toolache wallaby with a weight of 10 kilos (22.05 lbs)
- Ground pangolin with a weight of 11.92 kilos (26.28 lbs)
- Wolverine with a weight of 12.8 kilos (28.22 lbs)
- Proboscis monkey with a weight of 12.28 kilos (27.07 lbs)
- Steenbok with a weight of 11.64 kilos (25.66 lbs)
- Stump-tailed macaque with a weight of 9.38 kilos (20.68 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a weight of 8.91 kilos (19.64 lbs)
- Pudú with a weight of 9.61 kilos (21.19 lbs)
- Side-striped jackal with a weight of 10.4 kilos (22.93 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a weight of 8.87 kilos (19.55 lbs)