How many baby Common tsessebes are in a litter?
A Common tsessebe (Damaliscus lunatus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 238 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 11 kg (24.25 lbs) and measure 62.1 cm (2′ 1″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Damaliscus). An adult Common tsessebe grows up to a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The common tsessebe or sassaby (Damaliscus lunatus lunatus) is one of five subspecies of African antelope Damaliscus lunatus of the genus Damaliscus and subfamily Alcelaphinae in the family Bovidae. It is most closely related to the topi, korrigum, coastal topi and tiang (all subspecies of Damaliscus lunatus), and the bangweulu tsessebe and bontebok in the same genus. Tsessebe are found primarily in Angola, Zambia, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Eswatini (Swaziland), and South Africa. Tsessebe are the fastest antelope in Africa and can run at speeds over 90 km/h.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Common tsessebe is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Takin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Harvey’s duiker weighting around 14.5 kilograms (31.97 lbs)
- Grant’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blue duiker becoming 12 years old
- Puku with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain nyala with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Royal antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rhim gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Markhor with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Goitered gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Common tsessebe
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Shining thicket rat
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum
- New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat
- Galápagos fur seal
- Pygmy slow loris
- Zebra duiker
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Common eland
- Phayre’s leaf monkey
- Common duiker
Animals that get as old as a Common tsessebe
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18 years:
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with 20 years
- Black bearded saki with 18 years
- White-faced saki with 20.67 years
- Giant armadillo with 15 years
- Mexican free-tailed bat with 15 years
- Eld’s deer with 19.33 years
- Arabian oryx with 20 years
- Nile lechwe with 18.67 years
- Pygmy marmoset with 15.08 years
- Celebes crested macaque with 18 years
Animals with the same weight as a Common tsessebe
What other animals weight around 133.5 kg (294.32 lbs)?
- Black wildebeest usually reaching 156.55 kgs (345.13 lbs)
- California sea lion usually reaching 137.6 kgs (303.36 lbs)
- Eastern gorilla usually reaching 149.33 kgs (329.22 lbs)
- Pacific white-sided dolphin usually reaching 109.85 kgs (242.18 lbs)
- Topi usually reaching 127.19 kgs (280.41 lbs)
- Hourglass dolphin usually reaching 110 kgs (242.51 lbs)
- Sumatran serow usually reaching 110.94 kgs (244.58 lbs)
- Harp seal usually reaching 132.25 kgs (291.56 lbs)
- Harp seal usually reaching 132 kgs (291.01 lbs)
- Northern right whale dolphin usually reaching 113 kgs (249.12 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Common tsessebe
Also reaching around 1.7 meter (5′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- American black bear gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Juan Fernández fur seal gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Eld’s deer gets as big as 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Okapi gets as big as 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Asian elephant gets as big as 1.92 meter (6′ 4″)
- Lesser kudu gets as big as 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
- Kob gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Javan rusa gets as big as 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Caspian seal gets as big as 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Sambar deer gets as big as 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)