How many baby Bonteboks are in a litter?
A Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 240 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6.87 kg (15.15 lbs) and measure 62.1 cm (2′ 1″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Damaliscus). An adult Bontebok grows up to a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 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 bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus) is an antelope found in South Africa, Lesotho and Namibia. The bontebok has two subspecies; the bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus pygargus), occurring naturally in the Fynbos and Renosterveld areas of the Western Cape, and the blesbok (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi) occurring in the highveld.The bontebok is related to the common tsessebe.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Bontebok is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Dall sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Banteng with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bohor reedbuck with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Beira (antelope) with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ruwenzori duiker weighting around 15 kilograms (33.07 lbs)
- Red forest duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Saola weighting around 97.84 kilograms (215.7 lbs)
- Puku with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinkara weighting around 18.91 kilograms (41.69 lbs)
- Barbary sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bontebok
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Blyth’s horseshoe bat
- Black crested gibbon
- Grey-headed flying fox
- Cuban solenodon
- Lar gibbon
- Marsh deer
- Horse
- Long-fingered triok
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain
- Brown dorcopsis
Animals that get as old as a Bontebok
Other animals that usually reach the age of 21.67 years:
- Siberian ibex with 22.25 years
- Greater kudu with 23 years
- Red-bellied titi with 25.25 years
- Subantarctic fur seal with 23 years
- Binturong with 22.67 years
- Mountain zebra with 24 years
- Aardvark with 24 years
- Emperor tamarin with 20.17 years
- Short-beaked common dolphin with 20 years
- Japanese serow with 18.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bontebok
What other animals weight around 77.24 kg (170.29 lbs)?
- Baikal seal usually reaching 89.5 kgs (197.31 lbs)
- Common warthog usually reaching 82.5 kgs (181.88 lbs)
- Ribbon seal usually reaching 90 kgs (198.42 lbs)
- Javan warty pig usually reaching 89.2 kgs (196.65 lbs)
- Mountain goat usually reaching 71.84 kgs (158.38 lbs)
- Australophocaena dioptrica usually reaching 65 kgs (143.3 lbs)
- South Andean deer usually reaching 69.02 kgs (152.16 lbs)
- South American fur seal usually reaching 68.14 kgs (150.22 lbs)
- Bighorn sheep usually reaching 74.63 kgs (164.53 lbs)
- Desert warthog usually reaching 75.61 kgs (166.69 lbs)