How many baby Greater kudus are in a litter?
A Greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 220 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 15.38 kg (33.91 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Tragelaphus). An adult Greater kudu grows up to a size of 2.2 meter (7′ 3″).
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 greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) is a woodland antelope found throughout eastern and southern Africa. Despite occupying such widespread territory, they are sparsely populated in most areas due to declining habitat, deforestation, and poaching. The greater kudu is one of two species commonly known as kudu, the other being the lesser kudu, T. imberbis.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Greater kudu is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- White-bellied duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bighorn sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese serow with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nubian ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Steenbok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser kudu with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cuvier’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Saiga antelope with 2 babies per pregnancy
- European bison with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Saola weighting around 97.84 kilograms (215.7 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Greater kudu
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo
- Himalayan tahr
- Mediterranean horseshoe bat
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur
- Nilgiri tahr
- Rhim gazelle
- Southern long-nosed bat
- Little forest bat
- California leaf-nosed bat
- Weasel sportive lemur
Animals that get as old as a Greater kudu
Other animals that usually reach the age of 23 years:
- Sumatran serow with 21 years
- European bison with 27 years
- Emperor tamarin with 20.17 years
- Cacomistle with 23 years
- Giant anteater with 26 years
- Chital with 20.75 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with 22.83 years
- Southern elephant seal with 23 years
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with 25 years
- Roan antelope with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Greater kudu
What other animals weight around 205.53 kg (453.11 lbs)?
- Okapi usually reaching 230 kgs (507.06 lbs)
- Visayan warty pig usually reaching 189.4 kgs (417.56 lbs)
- Mountain nyala usually reaching 215 kgs (473.99 lbs)
- Waterbuck usually reaching 203.2 kgs (447.98 lbs)
- Australian sea lion usually reaching 189.14 kgs (416.98 lbs)
- Crabeater seal usually reaching 225 kgs (496.04 lbs)
- Sambar deer usually reaching 176 kgs (388.01 lbs)
- Grey seal usually reaching 197.29 kgs (434.95 lbs)
- Dwarf sperm whale usually reaching 183.07 kgs (403.6 lbs)
- Brown fur seal usually reaching 178.75 kgs (394.08 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Greater kudu
Also reaching around 2.2 meter (7′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Rough-toothed dolphin gets as big as 2.44 meter (8′ 1″)
- Short-beaked common dolphin gets as big as 2.44 meter (8′ 1″)
- Asian elephant gets as big as 1.92 meter (6′ 4″)
- South American sea lion gets as big as 2.12 meter (7′ 0″)
- South American tapir gets as big as 2.01 meter (6′ 7″)
- Polar bear gets as big as 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Okapi gets as big as 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Pacific white-sided dolphin gets as big as 2.21 meter (7′ 3″)
- Dall’s porpoise gets as big as 1.97 meter (6′ 6″)
- Crabeater seal gets as big as 2.28 meter (7′ 6″)