How many baby Gerenuks are in a litter?
A Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 204 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1 grams (0 lbs) and measure 91.3 cm (3′ 0″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Litocranius). An adult Gerenuk grows up to a size of 1.5 meter (5′ 0″).
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 gerenuk (; Somali: garanuug; Litocranius walleri), also known as the giraffe gazelle, is a long-necked antelope found in the Horn of Africa and the drier parts of East Africa. The sole member of the genus Litocranius, the gerenuk was first described by the naturalist Victor Brooke in 1879. It is characterised by its long, slender neck and limbs. The antelope is 80–105 centimetres (31–41 in) tall, and weighs between 28 and 52 kilograms (62 and 115 lb). Two types of colouration are clearly visible on the smooth coat: the reddish brown back or the “saddle”, and the lighter flanks, fawn to buff. The horns, present only on males, are lyre-shaped. Curving backward then slightly forward, these measure 25–44 centimetres (9.8–17.3 in).
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Gerenuk is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- American bison with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bontebok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Beira (antelope) with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Snow sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bluebuck weighting around 150 kilograms (330.69 lbs)
- Sharpe’s grysbok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kob with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Goat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Harnessed bushbuck with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grant’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Gerenuk
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat
- Goldman’s woodrat
- Long-tongued fruit bat
- Western long-tongued bat
- Admiralty Island cuscus
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
- Hirola
- Mongolian gazelle
- Dromedary
Animals that get as old as a Gerenuk
Other animals that usually reach the age of 13 years:
- Common spotted cuscus with 11 years
- Hog badger with 13.92 years
- Mindanao treeshrew with 11.5 years
- Quokka with 12 years
- Cave myotis with 11.25 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 14 years
- Common brushtail possum with 14.67 years
- European hare with 12 years
- Jaguarundi with 10.58 years
- European polecat with 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Gerenuk
What other animals weight around 38.65 kg (85.21 lbs)?
- Visayan spotted deer usually reaching 45.8 kgs (100.97 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle usually reaching 41 kgs (90.39 lbs)
- Saiga antelope usually reaching 37.57 kgs (82.83 lbs)
- Snow leopard usually reaching 32.5 kgs (71.65 lbs)
- Bohor reedbuck usually reaching 43.09 kgs (95 lbs)
- Chamois usually reaching 33.11 kgs (72.99 lbs)
- Red gazelle usually reaching 40 kgs (88.18 lbs)
- Vaquita usually reaching 43.11 kgs (95.04 lbs)
- Heaviside’s dolphin usually reaching 40 kgs (88.18 lbs)
- Galápagos fur seal usually reaching 39.47 kgs (87.02 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Gerenuk
Also reaching around 1.5 meter (5′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Sloth bear gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- American black bear gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Mule deer gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Galápagos fur seal gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Caspian seal gets as big as 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- South Andean deer gets as big as 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Leopard gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Bornean bearded pig gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Calamian deer gets as big as 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Cheetah gets as big as 1.48 meter (4′ 11″)