How big does a Goitered gazelle get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) reaches an average size of 95.8 cm (3′ 2″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 20 years, they grow from 2.32 kg (5.11 lbs) to 26.84 kg (59.17 lbs). A Goitered gazelle has 1 babies at once. The Goitered 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 goitered or black-tailed gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) is a gazelle found in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, parts of Iraq and Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and in northwest China and Mongolia. The specific name, meaning “full below the throat”, refers to the male having an enlargement of the neck and throat during the mating season.
Animals of the same family as a Goitered gazelle
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Red gazelle bringing 40 kilos (88.18 lbs) to the scale
- Argali with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Kob with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Mountain reedbuck with a size of 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)
- Saudi gazelle bringing 16 kilos (35.27 lbs) to the scale
- Common eland with a size of 2.66 meter (8′ 9″)
- Markhor with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Dall sheep with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- American bison with a size of 2.85 meter (9′ 5″)
Animals with the same size as a Goitered gazelle
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Goitered gazelle:
- Dwarf musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Bornean orangutan with a size of 89 cm (3′ 0″)
- African civet with a size of 79.2 cm (2′ 8″)
- Chacoan peccary with a size of 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Common duiker with a size of 96.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- African clawless otter with a size of 80.9 cm (2′ 8″)
- Steenbok with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Collared peccary with a size of 88.6 cm (2′ 11″)
- Thomson’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Chinese mountain cat with a size of 78.6 cm (2′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Goitered gazelle
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Goitered gazelle:
- Dugong
- Harp seal
- Thumbless bat
- Gilbert’s potoroo
- Unstriped ground squirrel
- Southeastern myotis
- Leschenault’s rousette
- Hispaniolan hutia
- Gray bat
- Suni
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Goitered gazelle
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Goitered gazelle:
- Himalayan tahr with an average maximal age of 21.75 years
- Alpine marmot with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Keen’s myotis with an average maximal age of 18.5 years
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with an average maximal age of 19 years
- Subantarctic fur seal with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Japanese serow with an average maximal age of 18.5 years
- Big hairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 20.17 years
- Tana River mangabey with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Iberian ibex with an average maximal age of 16 years
Animals with the same weight as a Goitered gazelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gazella subgutturosa:
- Maned wolf with a weight of 23.31 kilos (51.39 lbs)
- Red-fronted gazelle with a weight of 27 kilos (59.52 lbs)
- White-lipped peccary with a weight of 31.6 kilos (69.67 lbs)
- Long-tailed goral with a weight of 27 kilos (59.52 lbs)
- Red wolf with a weight of 26.7 kilos (58.86 lbs)
- Rhim gazelle with a weight of 24.47 kilos (53.95 lbs)
- Mongolian gazelle with a weight of 28.22 kilos (62.21 lbs)
- Giant anteater with a weight of 28.72 kilos (63.32 lbs)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with a weight of 26.18 kilos (57.72 lbs)
- Antilopine kangaroo with a weight of 27.28 kilos (60.14 lbs)