How many baby Blue wildebeests are in a litter?
A Blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 251 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 18.02 kg (39.73 lbs) and measure 20.6 cm (0′ 9″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Connochaetes). An adult Blue wildebeest grows up to a size of 2.01 meter (6′ 8″).
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 blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus), also called the common wildebeest, white-bearded wildebeest, or brindled gnu, is a large antelope and one of the two species of wildebeest. It is placed in the genus Connochaetes and family Bovidae, and has a close taxonomic relationship with the black wildebeest. The blue wildebeest is known to have five subspecies. This broad-shouldered antelope has a muscular, front-heavy appearance, with a distinctive, robust muzzle. Young blue wildebeest are born tawny brown, and begin to take on their adult coloration at the age of 2 months. The adults’ hues range from a deep slate or bluish-gray to light gray or even grayish-brown. Both sexes possess a pair of large curved horns.The blue wildebeest is a herbivore, feeding primarily on short grasses. It forms herds which move about in loose aggregations, the animals being fast runners and extremely wary. The mating season begins at the end of the rainy season and a single calf is usually born after a gestational period of about 8.5 months. The calf remains with its mother for 8 months, after which it joins a juvenile herd. Blue wildebeest are found in short-grass plains bordering bush-covered acacia savannas in southern and eastern Africa, thriving in areas that are neither too wet nor too arid. Three African populations of blue wildebeest take part in a long-distance migration, timed to coincide with the annual pattern of rainfall and grass growth on the volcanic soil short-grass plains where they can find the nutrient-rich forage necessary for lactation and calf growth.The blue wildebeest is native to Angola, Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Today, it is extinct in Malawi, but has been successfully reintroduced in Namibia. The southern limit of the blue wildebeest range is the Orange River, while the western limit is bounded by Lake Victoria and Mount Kenya. The blue wildebeest is widespread and is being introduced into private game farms, reserves and conservancies. So, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources rates the blue wildebeest as being of least concern. The population has been estimated to be around 1.5 million, and the population trend is stable.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Blue wildebeest is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Grant’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape grysbok becoming 14 years old
- Nilgiri tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hirola with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cuvier’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Oribi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Walia ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peters’s duiker weighting around 18.94 kilograms (41.76 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Blue wildebeest
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- L’Hoest’s monkey
- Silver dik-dik
- Roe deer
- Angolan epauletted fruit bat
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby
- Japanese macaque
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat
- Three-striped night monkey
- Natal red rock hare
- White-footed sportive lemur
Animals that get as old as a Blue wildebeest
Other animals that usually reach the age of 21.5 years:
- Commerson’s dolphin with 18 years
- North American river otter with 25 years
- Plains zebra with 20 years
- Northern elephant seal with 20.25 years
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with 19.75 years
- Sumatran serow with 21 years
- Snow leopard with 18 years
- Eld’s deer with 19.33 years
- Fringed myotis with 18.25 years
- Barbary sheep with 21 years
Animals with the same weight as a Blue wildebeest
What other animals weight around 197.31 kg (434.99 lbs)?
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest usually reaching 168 kgs (370.38 lbs)
- Hartebeest usually reaching 162.47 kgs (358.18 lbs)
- Melon-headed whale usually reaching 206 kgs (454.15 lbs)
- South American sea lion usually reaching 194 kgs (427.7 lbs)
- Ross seal usually reaching 208.63 kgs (459.95 lbs)
- Equus onager usually reaching 205 kgs (451.95 lbs)
- Red hartebeest usually reaching 176.12 kgs (388.28 lbs)
- Waterbuck usually reaching 203.2 kgs (447.98 lbs)
- South American tapir usually reaching 167.75 kgs (369.83 lbs)
- Sable antelope usually reaching 235.2 kgs (518.53 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Blue wildebeest
Also reaching around 2.01 meter (6′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Guadalupe fur seal gets as big as 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin gets as big as 2.37 meter (7′ 10″)
- Greater kudu gets as big as 2.2 meter (7′ 3″)
- Giant forest hog gets as big as 2.03 meter (6′ 8″)
- Juan Fernández fur seal gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Black wildebeest gets as big as 1.82 meter (6′ 0″)
- Crabeater seal gets as big as 2.27 meter (7′ 6″)
- Baird’s tapir gets as big as 2.2 meter (7′ 3″)
- New Zealand sea lion gets as big as 2.02 meter (6′ 8″)
- Hawaiian monk seal gets as big as 2.24 meter (7′ 5″)