How many baby Gemsboks are in a litter?
A Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 273 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 12.07 kg (26.61 lbs) and measure 2.37 meter (7′ 10″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Oryx). An adult Gemsbok grows up to a size of 1.62 meter (5′ 4″).
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 gemsbok, gemsbuck or South African oryx (Oryx gazella) is a large antelope in the genus Oryx. It is native to the arid regions of Southern Africa, such as the Kalahari Desert. Some authorities formerly included the East African oryx as a subspecies.The gemsbok is depicted on the coat of arms of Namibia, where the current population of the species is estimated at 373,000 individuals.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Gemsbok is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Barbary sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Harvey’s duiker weighting around 14.5 kilograms (31.97 lbs)
- Chinese goral becoming 17.25 years old
- Speke’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Maxwell’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kob with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mongolian gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Goa (antelope) with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bohor reedbuck with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Gemsbok
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- African savanna hare
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat
- Thorold’s deer
- Oecomys concolor
- Kinkajou
- White-faced saki
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Impala
- Argentine brown bat
- Felou gundi
Animals that get as old as a Gemsbok
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20 years:
- Big hairy armadillo with 20 years
- Ring-tailed cat with 16.5 years
- Margay with 20 years
- Northern viscacha with 19.5 years
- Kit fox with 20 years
- Koala with 20 years
- Common tsessebe with 18 years
- Sitatunga with 21.5 years
- Himalayan tahr with 21.75 years
- Striped hyena with 24 years
Animals with the same weight as a Gemsbok
What other animals weight around 187.6 kg (413.59 lbs)?
- Pygmy killer whale usually reaching 170 kgs (374.79 lbs)
- Mountain tapir usually reaching 155.46 kgs (342.73 lbs)
- South American sea lion usually reaching 193.67 kgs (426.97 lbs)
- Hawaiian monk seal usually reaching 223 kgs (491.63 lbs)
- Brown fur seal usually reaching 178.75 kgs (394.08 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer usually reaching 161 kgs (354.94 lbs)
- Blue wildebeest usually reaching 197.31 kgs (434.99 lbs)
- East African oryx usually reaching 200.58 kgs (442.2 lbs)
- Asinus usually reaching 172.5 kgs (380.3 lbs)
- Melon-headed whale usually reaching 206 kgs (454.15 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Gemsbok
Also reaching around 1.62 meter (5′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Hirola gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Subantarctic fur seal gets as big as 1.63 meter (5′ 4″)
- Ribbon seal gets as big as 1.54 meter (5′ 1″)
- Saola gets as big as 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Sumatran serow gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Dibatag gets as big as 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- White-tailed deer gets as big as 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Tiger gets as big as 1.83 meter (6′ 0″)
- Eld’s deer gets as big as 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Vaquita gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)