How many baby Grant’s gazelles are in a litter?
A Grant’s gazelle (Gazella granti) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 191 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5.22 kg (11.51 lbs) and measure 49.9 cm (1′ 8″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Gazella). An adult Grant’s gazelle grows up to a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″).
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 Grant’s gazelle (Nanger granti, syn. Gazella granti) is a species of gazelle distributed from northern Tanzania to South Sudan and Ethiopia, and from the Kenyan coast to Lake Victoria. Its Swahili name is swala granti. It was named for a 19th-century Scottish explorer, Lt Col Grant.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Grant’s gazelle is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Sharpe’s grysbok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain nyala with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sitatunga with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Addax with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nilgiri tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain goat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common tsessebe with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Iberian ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Takin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chamois with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Grant’s gazelle
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- White-throated guenon
- Purple-faced langur
- Noack’s roundleaf bat
- Southwestern myotis
- Insular flying fox
- Short-beaked echidna
- Steller sea lion
- Grey-cheeked mangabey
- Red bush squirrel
- Handley’s tailless bat
Animals that get as old as a Grant’s gazelle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12.67 years:
- Meerkat with 12.5 years
- Bat-eared fox with 13.75 years
- Fennec fox with 14.58 years
- Thomson’s gazelle with 15.17 years
- Tricolored bat with 15 years
- Capybara with 12 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with 14 years
- Red-fronted gazelle with 13.5 years
- Mountain reedbuck with 12.25 years
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Grant’s gazelle
What other animals weight around 55 kg (121.25 lbs)?
- Cheetah usually reaching 50.54 kgs (111.42 lbs)
- Vicuña usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
- Leopard usually reaching 52.4 kgs (115.52 lbs)
- Iberian ibex usually reaching 60.55 kgs (133.49 lbs)
- Northern fur seal usually reaching 55.58 kgs (122.53 lbs)
- Bharal usually reaching 52.16 kgs (114.99 lbs)
- Chimpanzee usually reaching 45.03 kgs (99.27 lbs)
- Burmeister’s porpoise usually reaching 60 kgs (132.28 lbs)
- Spotted hyena usually reaching 63.69 kgs (140.41 lbs)
- Abbott’s duiker usually reaching 56.68 kgs (124.96 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Grant’s gazelle
Also reaching around 1.53 meter (5′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Common warthog gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Calamian deer gets as big as 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Wild boar gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Guanaco gets as big as 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Baiji gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 8″)
- Gerenuk gets as big as 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Northern fur seal gets as big as 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Pampas deer gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Sheep gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Alpaca gets as big as 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)