How many baby Goitered gazelles are in a litter?
A Goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 159 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2.32 kg (5.11 lbs) and measure 4.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Gazella). An adult Goitered gazelle grows up to a size of 95.8 cm (3′ 2″).
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 goitered or black-tailed gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) is a gazelle found in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, parts of Iraq and Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and in northwest China and Mongolia. The specific name, meaning “full below the throat”, refers to the male having an enlargement of the neck and throat during the mating season.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Goitered gazelle is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Arabian oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- East African oryx becoming 20 years old
- Red-fronted gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mongolian gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gayal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gerenuk with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bontebok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red hartebeest becoming 15.25 years old
- Suni with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rhim gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Goitered gazelle
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Siberian musk deer
- Taiwan vole
- Red kangaroo
- Greater long-nosed bat
- Golden bamboo lemur
- Ogilby’s duiker
- Railer bat
- Squirrel glider
- Long-footed water rat
- African bush elephant
Animals that get as old as a Goitered gazelle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20 years:
- Wolverine with 18 years
- Arabian oryx with 20 years
- Common marmoset with 16.75 years
- American marten with 19 years
- Waterbuck with 19.92 years
- Roe deer with 17 years
- Eld’s deer with 19.33 years
- Leopard with 23 years
- Platypus with 22 years
- L’Hoest’s monkey with 16 years
Animals with the same weight as a Goitered gazelle
What other animals weight around 26.84 kg (59.17 lbs)?
- Dibatag usually reaching 28.05 kgs (61.84 lbs)
- Red-fronted gazelle usually reaching 27 kgs (59.52 lbs)
- Red wolf usually reaching 26.7 kgs (58.86 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.6 kgs (49.82 lbs)
- Maned wolf usually reaching 23.31 kgs (51.39 lbs)
- Western grey kangaroo usually reaching 25.58 kgs (56.39 lbs)
- Roe deer usually reaching 22.45 kgs (49.49 lbs)
- Goa (antelope) usually reaching 23.13 kgs (50.99 lbs)
- Red goral usually reaching 28.68 kgs (63.23 lbs)
- Himalayan goral usually reaching 28.75 kgs (63.38 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Goitered gazelle
Also reaching around 95.8 cm (3′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat gets as big as 1 meter (3′ 4″)
- Siamang gets as big as 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Black musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Short-eared dog gets as big as 83.3 cm (2′ 9″)
- Coyote gets as big as 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby gets as big as 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Serval gets as big as 83.5 cm (2′ 9″)
- Dhole gets as big as 98.8 cm (3′ 3″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)