How many baby Lechwes are in a litter?
A Lechwe (Kobus leche) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 229 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5.1 kg (11.24 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Kobus). An adult Lechwe 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 lechwe (Kobus leche), red lechwe or southern lechwe, is an antelope found in wetlands of south central Africa and was introduced to Australia.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Lechwe is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Hirola with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-backed duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Waterbuck with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser kudu with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Takin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Salt’s dik-dik with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thomson’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dall sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Aders’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Lechwe
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Maxwell’s duiker
- South American tapir
- Michoacan deer mouse
- South Asian river dolphin
- Arabian tahr
- Hector’s dolphin
- Seba’s short-tailed bat
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat
- Red bush squirrel
- Guatemalan black howler
Animals that get as old as a Lechwe
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18.5 years:
- Brown fur seal with 21 years
- Greater glider with 15 years
- Harbour porpoise with 15 years
- Himalayan tahr with 21.75 years
- Pond bat with 19.5 years
- Margay with 20 years
- Red-rumped agouti with 17.75 years
- Lowland paca with 16 years
- Black-footed mongoose with 15.83 years
- Impala with 17.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Lechwe
What other animals weight around 88.02 kg (194.06 lbs)?
- Hirola usually reaching 79.13 kgs (174.45 lbs)
- Saola usually reaching 97.84 kgs (215.7 lbs)
- Ringed seal usually reaching 70.96 kgs (156.44 lbs)
- Bontebok usually reaching 77.24 kgs (170.28 lbs)
- Lesser kudu usually reaching 93.81 kgs (206.82 lbs)
- Walia ibex usually reaching 99.77 kgs (219.95 lbs)
- Harbor seal usually reaching 87.31 kgs (192.49 lbs)
- Sitatunga usually reaching 75.28 kgs (165.96 lbs)
- Subantarctic fur seal usually reaching 92.21 kgs (203.29 lbs)
- Persian fallow deer usually reaching 74.4 kgs (164.02 lbs)