How many baby Dama gazelles are in a litter?
A Dama gazelle (Nanger dama) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 194 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Nanger). An adult Dama gazelle grows up to a size of 1.46 meter (4′ 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.
The dama gazelle, addra gazelle, or mhorr gazelle (Nanger dama, formerly Gazella dama) is a species of gazelle. It lives in Africa in the Sahara desert and the Sahel. This critically endangered species has disappeared from most of its former range due to overhunting and habitat loss, and natural populations only remain in Chad, Mali, and Niger. Its habitat includes grassland, shrubland, semi-deserts, open savanna and mountain plateaus. Its diet includes grasses, leaves (especially Acacia leaves), shoots, and fruit.In Niger, the dama gazelle has become a national symbol. Under the Hausa name meyna or ménas the dama gazelle appears on the badge of the Niger national football team, who are popularly called the Ménas.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Dama gazelle is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- White-bellied duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Argali with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Puku with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Domestic yak with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bharal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Saudi gazelle weighting around 16 kilograms (35.27 lbs)
- Hartebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dibatag with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blue duiker becoming 12 years old
Animals that share a litter size with Dama gazelle
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sykes’ monkey
- Harbor seal
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
- Birdlike noctule
- Handley’s tailless bat
- Link rat
- Eastern falanouc
- Chestnut-bellied titi
- Llama
- Southeast Asian shrew
Animals that get as old as a Dama gazelle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17.25 years:
- Menzbier’s marmot with 15 years
- Fossa (animal) with 20 years
- Blackbuck with 20.25 years
- Kirk’s dik-dik with 16.5 years
- North American beaver with 15 years
- Harbour porpoise with 15 years
- Impala with 17.75 years
- Raccoon dog with 14 years
- Cheetah with 19 years
- North American porcupine with 18 years
Animals with the same weight as a Dama gazelle
What other animals weight around 71.42 kg (157.46 lbs)?
- Red river hog usually reaching 70 kgs (154.32 lbs)
- Javan rusa usually reaching 65.8 kgs (145.06 lbs)
- Kob usually reaching 79.77 kgs (175.86 lbs)
- Pantropical spotted dolphin usually reaching 65.72 kgs (144.89 lbs)
- Short-beaked common dolphin usually reaching 79.29 kgs (174.8 lbs)
- Hirola usually reaching 78.6 kgs (173.28 lbs)
- Dama gazelle usually reaching 70.4 kgs (155.21 lbs)
- Common warthog usually reaching 82.5 kgs (181.88 lbs)
- Desert warthog usually reaching 75.61 kgs (166.69 lbs)
- Jaguar usually reaching 84.26 kgs (185.76 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Dama gazelle
Also reaching around 1.46 meter (4′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- American black bear gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Eld’s deer gets as big as 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Southern reedbuck gets as big as 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Vaquita gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Spotted hyena gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Jaguar gets as big as 1.33 meter (4′ 5″)
- Hirola gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Western gorilla gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Cougar gets as big as 1.4 meter (4′ 8″)
- Red river hog gets as big as 1.37 meter (4′ 6″)