How big does a Grant’s gazelle get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Grant’s gazelle (Gazella granti) reaches an average size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 12.67 years, they grow from 5.22 kg (11.51 lbs) to 55 kg (121.25 lbs). A Grant’s gazelle has 1 babies at once. The Grant’s 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 Grant’s gazelle (Nanger granti, syn. Gazella granti) is a species of gazelle distributed from northern Tanzania to South Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria. Its Swahili name is swala granti. It was named for a 19th-century Scottish explorer, Lt Col Grant.
Animals of the same family as a Grant’s gazelle
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Goa (antelope) with a size of 98 cm (3′ 3″)
- White-bellied duiker with a size of 94 cm (3′ 2″)
- Mongolian gazelle with a size of 1.24 meter (4′ 1″)
- Dorcas gazelle with a size of 96.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Bohor reedbuck with a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Black wildebeest with a size of 1.82 meter (6′ 0″)
- Long-tailed goral with an average maximal age of 13.17 years
- Blue duiker with a size of 69.2 cm (2′ 4″)
- Giant eland with a size of 2.52 meter (8′ 4″)
- Waterbuck with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Grant’s gazelle
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Grant’s gazelle:
- Asian black bear with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Caspian seal with a size of 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Vicuña with a size of 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Bawean deer with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Marsh deer with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Bighorn sheep with a size of 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Barasingha with a size of 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Common warthog with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Brown bear with a size of 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Grant’s gazelle
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Grant’s gazelle:
- Black-eared flying fox
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo
- Impala
- Angola colobus
- Zanzibar red colobus
- Lar gibbon
- Lechwe
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby
- Macroscelides proboscideus
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Grant’s gazelle
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Grant’s gazelle:
- Small Indian civet with an average maximal age of 10.5 years
- Grey long-eared bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Silver dik-dik with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Tricolored bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Tammar wallaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Hirola with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Black duiker with an average maximal age of 10.17 years
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Calabar angwantibo with an average maximal age of 13 years
Animals with the same weight as a Grant’s gazelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gazella granti:
- Capybara with a weight of 47.5 kilos (104.72 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 65.8 kilos (145.06 lbs)
- Pronghorn with a weight of 47.18 kilos (104.01 lbs)
- Caspian seal with a weight of 62.3 kilos (137.35 lbs)
- Caspian seal with a weight of 62.33 kilos (137.41 lbs)
- Goat with a weight of 47.14 kilos (103.93 lbs)
- Philippine deer with a weight of 49.46 kilos (109.04 lbs)
- Pantropical spotted dolphin with a weight of 65.72 kilos (144.89 lbs)
- Bornean orangutan with a weight of 52.97 kilos (116.78 lbs)
- Spectacled porpoise with a weight of 65 kilos (143.3 lbs)