What is the maximal age a Greater kudu reaches?
An adult Greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) usually gets as old as 23 years.
Greater kudus are around 220 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 15.38 kg (33.91 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Tragelaphus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 2.2 meter (7′ 3″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) is a woodland antelope found throughout eastern and southern Africa. Despite occupying such widespread territory, they are sparsely populated in most areas due to declining habitat, deforestation, and poaching. The greater kudu is one of two species commonly known as kudu, the other being the lesser kudu, T. imberbis.
Animals of the same family as a Greater kudu
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Cape grysbok becoming 14 years old
- Bongo (antelope) becoming 19.42 years old
- Arabian tahr becoming 14 years old
- Hirola becoming 15.17 years old
- Red-fronted gazelle becoming 13.5 years old
- Japanese serow becoming 18.5 years old
- Kob becoming 21.92 years old
- Goat becoming 20.75 years old
- Kouprey growing to a mass of 788.66 kgs (1738.7 lbs)
- Red gazelle growing to a mass of 40 kgs (88.18 lbs)
Animals that reach the same age as Greater kudu
With an average age of 23 years, Greater kudu are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Scimitar oryx usually reaching 20.42 years
- Swift fox usually reaching 20 years
- Big hairy armadillo usually reaching 20 years
- Black howler usually reaching 20.25 years
- African brush-tailed porcupine usually reaching 22.83 years
- Nilgai usually reaching 21.67 years
- Red-bellied titi usually reaching 25.25 years
- East African oryx usually reaching 20 years
- Blue wildebeest usually reaching 21.5 years
- Bahamian raccoon usually reaching 21 years
Animals with the same number of babies Greater kudu
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Hoffmann’s rat
- Birdlike noctule
- Narwhal
- Cuvier’s gazelle
- Philippine tube-nosed fruit bat
- Canyon bat
- Blyth’s horseshoe bat
- Indian hare
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat
- Moonshine shrew
Weighting as much as Greater kudu
A fully grown Greater kudu reaches around 205.53 kg (453.11 lbs). So do these animals:
- Anoa weighting 180.86 kilos (398.73 lbs) on average
- Dwarf sperm whale weighting 183 kilos (403.45 lbs) on average
- Irrawaddy dolphin weighting 190 kilos (418.88 lbs) on average
- Red hartebeest weighting 176.12 kilos (388.28 lbs) on average
- Brown bear weighting 196.14 kilos (432.41 lbs) on average
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest weighting 168.7 kilos (371.92 lbs) on average
- Scimitar oryx weighting 198.4 kilos (437.4 lbs) on average
- Sambar deer weighting 176 kilos (388.01 lbs) on average
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest weighting 168 kilos (370.38 lbs) on average
- Caribbean monk seal weighting 198.38 kilos (437.35 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Greater kudu
Those animals grow as big as a Greater kudu:
- Banteng with 2.08 meter (6′ 10″)
- Reindeer with 2.23 meter (7′ 4″)
- Tiger with 1.83 meter (6′ 0″)
- Red deer with 2.14 meter (7′ 1″)
- Atlantic spotted dolphin with 2.13 meter (7′ 0″)
- Hooded seal with 2.33 meter (7′ 8″)
- Irrawaddy dolphin with 2.5 meter (8′ 3″)
- Mediterranean monk seal with 2.6 meter (8′ 7″)
- Dall’s porpoise with 1.97 meter (6′ 6″)
- Amazon river dolphin with 2.12 meter (7′ 0″)