How many baby Grant’s gazelles are in a litter?
A Grant’s gazelle (Nanger 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 (11.5 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Nanger). 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:
- Greater kudu with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinkara weighting around 18.91 kilograms (41.69 lbs)
- Grant’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Scimitar oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chamois with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest weighting around 168.7 kilograms (371.92 lbs)
- Speke’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red gazelle weighting around 40 kilograms (88.18 lbs)
- Long-tailed goral becoming 13.17 years old
- Takin 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:
- Greater mouse-eared bat
- Banded palm civet
- Red goral
- Hildegarde’s tomb bat
- Red acouchi
- Spectral tarsier
- Weasel sportive lemur
- Lechwe
- Siberian musk deer
- Western broad-nosed bat
Animals that get as old as a Grant’s gazelle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12.67 years:
- Tammar wallaby with 14 years
- Sable with 15 years
- Javan warty pig with 14 years
- Arabian gazelle with 11.25 years
- Günther’s dik-dik with 14 years
- Capybara with 12 years
- Yellow mongoose with 15.17 years
- Spectral tarsier with 12 years
- Common warthog with 15 years
- Gray fox with 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a Grant’s gazelle
What other animals weight around 55.46 kg (122.28 lbs)?
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle usually reaching 48.5 kgs (106.92 lbs)
- Goat usually reaching 47.14 kgs (103.93 lbs)
- Vicuña usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
- Cougar usually reaching 53.93 kgs (118.9 lbs)
- Bornean orangutan usually reaching 52.97 kgs (116.78 lbs)
- Yellow-backed duiker usually reaching 61.65 kgs (135.91 lbs)
- Harbour porpoise usually reaching 52.72 kgs (116.23 lbs)
- Javan rusa usually reaching 66.38 kgs (146.34 lbs)
- Bawean deer usually reaching 55 kgs (121.25 lbs)
- Chilean dolphin usually reaching 45 kgs (99.21 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Grant’s gazelle
Also reaching around 1.53 meter (5′ 1″) in size do these animals:
- Subantarctic fur seal gets as big as 1.63 meter (5′ 4″)
- Harp seal gets as big as 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Javan rusa gets as big as 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Ringed seal gets as big as 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Saola gets as big as 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Asian black bear gets as big as 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Common warthog gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Ribbon seal gets as big as 1.54 meter (5′ 1″)
- Nilgiri tahr gets as big as 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Javan warty pig gets as big as 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)