How many baby Bates’s pygmy antelopes are in a litter?
A Bates’s pygmy antelope (Neotragus batesi) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 181 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 499 grams (1.1 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Neotragus). An adult Bates’s pygmy antelope grows up to a size of 54 cm (1′ 10″).
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.
Bates’s pygmy antelope (Neotragus batesi), also known as the dwarf antelope, pygmy antelope or Bates’ dwarf antelope, is a very small antelope living in the moist forest and brush of Central and West Africa. It is in the same genus as the suni and the royal antelope.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Bates’s pygmy antelope is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- African buffalo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Himalayan goral with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain goat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bohor reedbuck with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-fronted gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese goral becoming 17.25 years old
- Domestic yak with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gerenuk with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bighorn sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bates’s pygmy antelope
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
- Mauritian flying fox
- Highland brush mouse
- Yellow-bellied brush-furred rat
- Tufted deer
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey
- Niceforo’s big-eared bat
- Broom hare
- Magdalena rat
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
Animals that get as old as a Bates’s pygmy antelope
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14 years:
- Calabar angwantibo with 13 years
- Giant otter with 12.83 years
- Saiga antelope with 12 years
- Arabian tahr with 14 years
- Ring-tailed cat with 16.5 years
- Water chevrotain with 14 years
- Small-toothed palm civet with 15.83 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 14 years
- Common brushtail possum with 14.67 years
- Iberian ibex with 16 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bates’s pygmy antelope
What other animals weight around 2.96 kg (6.53 lbs)?
- Black-footed mongoose usually reaching 2.62 kgs (5.78 lbs)
- Mountain hare usually reaching 3.11 kgs (6.86 lbs)
- Golden-crowned sifaka usually reaching 3.53 kgs (7.78 lbs)
- Booted macaque usually reaching 2.75 kgs (6.06 lbs)
- Common brushtail possum usually reaching 2.69 kgs (5.93 lbs)
- White-nosed saki usually reaching 2.8 kgs (6.17 lbs)
- Rufous rat-kangaroo usually reaching 2.81 kgs (6.19 lbs)
- Red-rumped agouti usually reaching 3.02 kgs (6.66 lbs)
- Aye-aye usually reaching 2.74 kgs (6.04 lbs)
- Scrub hare usually reaching 2.6 kgs (5.73 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bates’s pygmy antelope
Also reaching around 54 cm (1′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Arctic fox gets as big as 56.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Assam macaque gets as big as 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Black dorcopsis gets as big as 59.2 cm (2′ 0″)
- Flat-headed cat gets as big as 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Mantled howler gets as big as 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Pig-tailed langur gets as big as 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Gee’s golden langur gets as big as 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Andean mountain cat gets as big as 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Crab-eating mongoose gets as big as 50.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Proboscis monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)