How many baby Grey rheboks are in a litter?
A Grey rhebok (Pelea capreolus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 260 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 253 grams (0.56 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Pelea). An adult Grey rhebok grows up to a size of 88.6 cm (2′ 11″).
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 grey rhebok or grey rhebuck (Pelea capreolus), locally known as the Vaal rhebok or Vaalribbok in Afrikaans, is a species of antelope native to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, and Eswatini (Swaziland). The specific name capreolus is Latin for ‘little goat’.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Grey rhebok is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- European bison with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red gazelle weighting around 40 kilograms (88.18 lbs)
- Common eland with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tibetan antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red forest duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Puku with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common tsessebe with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-flanked duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Iberian ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Grey rhebok
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Northern nail-tail wallaby
- Maroon leaf monkey
- Rio Mayo titi
- Dama gazelle
- Markhor
- South American sea lion
- Greater horseshoe bat
- Gray bat
- Mohol bushbaby
- Whiskered flying squirrel
Animals that get as old as a Grey rhebok
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12.25 years:
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with 10.17 years
- Common brushtail possum with 14.67 years
- Least weasel with 10 years
- Common dwarf mongoose with 10.92 years
- Common bent-wing bat with 14 years
- Common duiker with 14.25 years
- Banded palm civet with 12 years
- Parma wallaby with 10 years
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with 12 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Grey rhebok
What other animals weight around 22.62 kg (49.86 lbs)?
- Hairy-fronted muntjac usually reaching 18.45 kgs (40.68 lbs)
- Western grey kangaroo usually reaching 25.58 kgs (56.39 lbs)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat usually reaching 26.18 kgs (57.72 lbs)
- African clawless otter usually reaching 19.16 kgs (42.24 lbs)
- Eurasian beaver usually reaching 19 kgs (41.89 lbs)
- Gongshan muntjac usually reaching 18.45 kgs (40.68 lbs)
- Eurasian lynx usually reaching 19.3 kgs (42.55 lbs)
- Lesser capybara usually reaching 21.27 kgs (46.89 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.6 kgs (49.82 lbs)
- Maned wolf usually reaching 23.31 kgs (51.39 lbs)