How big does a Mountain gazelle get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) reaches an average size of 1.01 meter (3′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 18.25 years, they grow from 2.13 kg (4.69 lbs) to 21.25 kg (46.85 lbs). A Mountain gazelle has 1 babies at once. The Mountain gazelle (genus: Gazella) 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 mountain gazelle or the Palestine mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) is a species of gazelle widely but unevenly distributed.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain gazelle
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Dall sheep with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- West Caucasian tur with 1 babies per litter
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Red-fronted gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Nilgai with a size of 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Silver dik-dik with 1 babies per litter
- Nyala with a size of 1.94 meter (6′ 5″)
- Muskox with 1 babies per litter
- Anoa with a size of 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
Animals with the same size as a Mountain gazelle
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mountain gazelle:
- Steenbok with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Snow leopard with a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Speke’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Capybara with a size of 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)
- Black musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Buru babirusa with a size of 95 cm (3′ 2″)
- Collared peccary with a size of 88.6 cm (2′ 11″)
- Common wombat with a size of 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Bohor reedbuck with a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Zebra duiker with a size of 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mountain gazelle
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Mountain gazelle:
- Gracile Atlantic spiny rat
- Tana River mangabey
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel
- Maned sloth
- Gayal
- Pygmy tarsier
- Big-headed African mole-rat
- Collared peccary
- New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat
- Rusty pipistrelle
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Mountain gazelle
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Mountain gazelle:
- Short-beaked common dolphin with an average maximal age of 20 years
- California myotis with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Plains zebra with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Oribi with an average maximal age of 15.75 years
- Australian sea lion with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Japanese serow with an average maximal age of 18.5 years
- Silvery marmoset with an average maximal age of 16.75 years
- White-nosed coati with an average maximal age of 17.67 years
- Common marmoset with an average maximal age of 16.75 years
- Gray-bellied night monkey with an average maximal age of 18 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain gazelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gazella gazella:
- Chinkara with a weight of 18.91 kilos (41.69 lbs)
- Collared peccary with a weight of 21.19 kilos (46.72 lbs)
- Bornean yellow muntjac with a weight of 18.87 kilos (41.6 lbs)
- Peters’s duiker with a weight of 18.94 kilos (41.76 lbs)
- Eurasian lynx with a weight of 19.3 kilos (42.55 lbs)
- Indian muntjac with a weight of 17.51 kilos (38.6 lbs)
- Bay duiker with a weight of 20 kilos (44.09 lbs)
- Goa (antelope) with a weight of 23.13 kilos (50.99 lbs)
- Rhim gazelle with a weight of 24.47 kilos (53.95 lbs)
- Olive baboon with a weight of 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs)