How many baby Dama gazelles are in a litter?
A Dama gazelle (Gazella 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 48 grams (0.11 lbs) and measure 3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Gazella). 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:
- Rhim gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blackbuck with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peters’s duiker weighting around 18.94 kilograms (41.76 lbs)
- Markhor with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nilgai with 1 babies per pregnancy
- American bison with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Aders’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Springbok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Klipspringer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Maxwell’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Dama gazelle
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Crescent nail-tail wallaby
- Black rhinoceros
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat
- Sunda slow loris
- African pygmy squirrel
- Southwestern myotis
- Narrow-striped mongoose
- Gracile Atlantic spiny rat
- Striped bandicoot
- Bush vlei rat
Animals that get as old as a Dama gazelle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17.25 years:
- Red goral with 18.25 years
- White-nosed coati with 17.67 years
- Short-eared possum with 17 years
- Six-banded armadillo with 18.75 years
- Bongo (antelope) with 19.42 years
- California myotis with 15 years
- Brown hyena with 17 years
- Goeldi’s marmoset with 17.83 years
- Greater dwarf lemur with 15 years
- Northern greater galago with 17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Dama gazelle
What other animals weight around 70.4 kg (155.21 lbs)?
- Dall sheep usually reaching 70 kgs (154.32 lbs)
- Caspian seal usually reaching 62.3 kgs (137.35 lbs)
- Fallow deer usually reaching 56.71 kgs (125.02 lbs)
- Javan rusa usually reaching 66.38 kgs (146.34 lbs)
- Australophocaena dioptrica usually reaching 65 kgs (143.3 lbs)
- Sun bear usually reaching 57.04 kgs (125.75 lbs)
- Mountain goat usually reaching 71.84 kgs (158.38 lbs)
- Desert warthog usually reaching 75.61 kgs (166.69 lbs)
- Spotted hyena usually reaching 63.69 kgs (140.41 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin usually reaching 75.99 kgs (167.53 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Dama gazelle
Also reaching around 1.46 meter (4′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Jaguar gets as big as 1.33 meter (4′ 5″)
- Sea otter gets as big as 1.44 meter (4′ 9″)
- Spotted seal gets as big as 1.64 meter (5′ 5″)
- American black bear gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Jentink’s duiker gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Barasingha gets as big as 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Sun bear gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Baikal seal gets as big as 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Sheep gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Yellow-backed duiker gets as big as 1.32 meter (4′ 5″)