How many baby Arabian oryxs are in a litter?
A Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 239 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 12.07 kg (26.61 lbs) and measure 2.37 meter (7′ 10″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Oryx). An adult Arabian oryx grows up to a size of 1.62 meter (5′ 4″).
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 Arabian oryx or white oryx (Oryx leucoryx) is a medium-sized antelope with a distinct shoulder bump, long, straight horns, and a tufted tail. It is a bovid, and the smallest member of the genus Oryx, native to desert and steppe areas of the Arabian Peninsula. The Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild by the early 1970s, but was saved in zoos and private preserves, and was reintroduced into the wild starting in 1980.In 1986, the Arabian oryx was classified as endangered on the IUCN Red List, and in 2011, it was the first animal to revert to vulnerable status after previously being listed as extinct in the wild. It is listed in CITES Appendix I. In 2011, populations were estimated at over 1,000 individuals in the wild, and 6,000–7,000 individuals in captivity worldwide.A Qatari oryx named “Orry” was chosen as the official games mascot for the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, and is shown on tailfins of planes belonging to Middle Eastern airline Qatar Airways. It is the national animal of Oman.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Arabian oryx is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Steenbok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blue duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Goa (antelope) with 1 babies per pregnancy
- European bison with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Scimitar oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Domestic yak with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hirola with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf blue sheep weighting around 29.27 kilograms (64.53 lbs)
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest weighting around 168.7 kilograms (371.92 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Arabian oryx
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Grévy’s zebra
- Black-spotted cuscus
- Attwater’s pocket gopher
- Mountain goat
- Snow sheep
- Ribboned rope squirrel
- Moor macaque
- Agile wallaby
- Yellow baboon
- Black giant squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Arabian oryx
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20 years:
- Dama gazelle with 17.25 years
- Bontebok with 21.67 years
- Reindeer with 20.17 years
- White-tailed deer with 23 years
- Eurasian otter with 22 years
- Pygmy sperm whale with 17 years
- Eld’s deer with 19.33 years
- Tayra with 18 years
- Antilopine kangaroo with 16 years
- Finless porpoise with 23 years
Animals with the same weight as a Arabian oryx
What other animals weight around 75.43 kg (166.28 lbs)?
- Alpine ibex usually reaching 69.42 kgs (153.04 lbs)
- Chital usually reaching 69.5 kgs (153.22 lbs)
- Dall sheep usually reaching 70 kgs (154.32 lbs)
- Alpaca usually reaching 64.9 kgs (143.08 lbs)
- Iberian ibex usually reaching 60.55 kgs (133.49 lbs)
- Baikal seal usually reaching 89.5 kgs (197.31 lbs)
- Ringed seal usually reaching 71.1 kgs (156.75 lbs)
- Dama gazelle usually reaching 70.4 kgs (155.21 lbs)
- Commerson’s dolphin usually reaching 72.4 kgs (159.61 lbs)
- Wild boar usually reaching 84.49 kgs (186.27 lbs)