How many baby Beira (antelope)s are in a litter?
A Beira (antelope) (Dorcatragus megalotis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 199 grams (0.44 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Dorcatragus). An adult Beira (antelope) grows up to a size of 77.9 cm (2′ 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 beira (Dorcatragus megalotis) is a small arid adapted antelope that inhabits arid regions of the Horn of Africa.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Beira (antelope) is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Pyrenean chamois weighting around 30 kilograms (66.14 lbs)
- Walia ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Maxwell’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nyala with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest weighting around 168.7 kilograms (371.92 lbs)
- Saiga antelope with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Arabian tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arabian oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red hartebeest becoming 15.25 years old
Animals that share a litter size with Beira (antelope)
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Indian hare
- Big brown bat
- Sinaloan mastiff bat
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat
- Van Gelder’s bat
- White-faced saki
- Malagasy civet
- Typical vlei rat
- Micronycteris nicefori
Animals that get as old as a Beira (antelope)
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14 years:
- Thomson’s gazelle with 15.17 years
- Guinea pig with 14.75 years
- Ring-tailed cat with 16.5 years
- Bat-eared fox with 13.75 years
- Red hartebeest with 15.25 years
- Mohol bushbaby with 16.5 years
- Common bent-wing bat with 14 years
- Common marmoset with 16.75 years
- Zebra duiker with 12.17 years
- Mexican free-tailed bat with 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a Beira (antelope)
What other animals weight around 10.91 kg (24.05 lbs)?
- Red forest duiker usually reaching 12.36 kgs (27.25 lbs)
- Marine otter usually reaching 11.2 kgs (24.69 lbs)
- Toolache wallaby usually reaching 10 kgs (22.05 lbs)
- Smooth-coated otter usually reaching 8.96 kgs (19.75 lbs)
- Red-flanked duiker usually reaching 12.06 kgs (26.59 lbs)
- African civet usually reaching 12.09 kgs (26.65 lbs)
- Stump-tailed macaque usually reaching 9.38 kgs (20.68 lbs)
- Siamang usually reaching 10.84 kgs (23.9 lbs)
- Roosevelt’s muntjac usually reaching 10.76 kgs (23.72 lbs)
- Black-shanked douc usually reaching 10.33 kgs (22.77 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Beira (antelope)
Also reaching around 77.9 cm (2′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Ursine tree-kangaroo gets as big as 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Gray brocket gets as big as 92.3 cm (3′ 1″)
- Dwarf musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Eastern grey kangaroo gets as big as 87.7 cm (2′ 11″)
- Otter civet gets as big as 62.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Aders’s duiker gets as big as 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Siamang gets as big as 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Black colobus gets as big as 62.9 cm (2′ 1″)
- Fisher (animal) gets as big as 75.1 cm (2′ 6″)
- Steenbok gets as big as 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)