How many baby Harnessed bushbucks are in a litter?
A Harnessed bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 182 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3.03 kg (6.69 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Tragelaphus). An adult Harnessed bushbuck grows up to a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 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 harnessed bushbuck or kéwel (Tragelaphus scriptus) is a small to medium-sized antelope widespread in west and central Africa. Formerly and alongside the Cape bushbuck it was generically known as the bushbuck, however, it has since been found to be a species in its own right, with a separate geographic distribution. Of all the other tragelaphine antelopes, the harnessed bushbuck is most closely related to the nyala (Tragelaphus angasi).
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Harnessed bushbuck is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- East African oryx becoming 20 years old
- Goat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Water buffalo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lechwe with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape grysbok becoming 14 years old
- Himalayan goral with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red goral with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peters’s duiker weighting around 18.94 kilograms (41.76 lbs)
- Zebra duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gerenuk with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Harnessed bushbuck
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Bontebok
- Pennant’s colobus
- Nilgiri tahr
- Brazilian porcupine
- Woosnam’s brush-furred rat
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat
- Kelaart’s pipistrelle
- Bare-backed rousette
- Juan Fernández fur seal
- Baikal seal
Animals that get as old as a Harnessed bushbuck
Other animals that usually reach the age of 13 years:
- Common bent-wing bat with 14 years
- Rock cavy with 11 years
- Giant otter with 12.83 years
- Thomson’s gazelle with 15.17 years
- Weasel sportive lemur with 12 years
- Capybara with 12 years
- Long-footed treeshrew with 12 years
- California myotis with 15 years
- Long-nosed potoroo with 12 years
- Sharpe’s grysbok with 14 years
Animals with the same weight as a Harnessed bushbuck
What other animals weight around 43.28 kg (95.4 lbs)?
- Sheep usually reaching 37.47 kgs (82.61 lbs)
- Pronghorn usually reaching 47.18 kgs (104.01 lbs)
- Chimpanzee usually reaching 45.03 kgs (99.27 lbs)
- Red gazelle usually reaching 40 kgs (88.18 lbs)
- Gerenuk usually reaching 38.65 kgs (85.21 lbs)
- Chacoan peccary usually reaching 35.38 kgs (78 lbs)
- Japanese serow usually reaching 42.6 kgs (93.92 lbs)
- Philippine deer usually reaching 49.1 kgs (108.25 lbs)
- Vicuña usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
- Capybara usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Harnessed bushbuck
Also reaching around 1.25 meter (4′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Baikal seal gets as big as 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Calamian deer gets as big as 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Barbary sheep gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Wild boar gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Ringed seal gets as big as 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Springbok gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Brown hyena gets as big as 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Abbott’s duiker gets as big as 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- Sun bear gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)