How many baby Kobs are in a litter?
A Kob (Kobus kob) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 254 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5.39 kg (11.88 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Kobus). An adult Kob grows up to a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″).
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 kob (Kobus kob) is an antelope found across Central Africa and parts of West Africa and East Africa. Together with the closely related reedbucks, waterbucks, lechwe, Nile lechwe, and puku, it forms the Reduncinae tribe. Found along the northern savanna, it is often seen in Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda; Garamba and Virunga National Park, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as grassy floodplains of South Sudan.Kob are found in wet areas (such as floodplains), where they eat grasses. Kob are diurnal, but inactive during the heat of the day. They live in groups of either females and calves or just males. These groups generally range from five to 40 animals.Among the kobs of eastern Africa, the Ugandan kob (Kobus kob thomasi) appears on the coat of arms of Uganda, and white-eared kobs (Kobus kob leucotis), found in South Africa, southwest Ethiopia, and extreme northeast Uganda, participate in large-scale migrations.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Kob is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Przewalski’s gazelle weighting around 27.5 kilograms (60.63 lbs)
- Giant eland becoming 16.17 years old
- Gemsbok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Iberian ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dama gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bontebok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Harnessed bushbuck with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-flanked duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Maxwell’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Kob
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Javan rhinoceros
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Hooded seal
- Gilbert’s potoroo
- Baiji
- Daubenton’s bat
- Maned rat
- Common thick-thumbed bat
- Campbell’s mona monkey
- Van Gelder’s bat
Animals that get as old as a Kob
Other animals that usually reach the age of 21.92 years:
- Subantarctic fur seal with 23 years
- Anoa with 22.5 years
- Domestic yak with 22.25 years
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with 21 years
- Bharal with 24 years
- Binturong with 22.67 years
- Madagascan fruit bat with 20 years
- Monk saki with 24.58 years
- Weddell seal with 25 years
- Dall’s porpoise with 22 years
Animals with the same weight as a Kob
What other animals weight around 79.77 kg (175.86 lbs)?
- Short-beaked common dolphin usually reaching 79.29 kgs (174.8 lbs)
- Alpine ibex usually reaching 69.42 kgs (153.04 lbs)
- White-tailed deer usually reaching 75.6 kgs (166.67 lbs)
- Spectacled porpoise usually reaching 65 kgs (143.3 lbs)
- Addax usually reaching 95.39 kgs (210.3 lbs)
- Buru babirusa usually reaching 92.33 kgs (203.55 lbs)
- Barbary sheep usually reaching 93.7 kgs (206.57 lbs)
- Puku usually reaching 71.23 kgs (157.04 lbs)
- Hirola usually reaching 78.6 kgs (173.28 lbs)
- Snow sheep usually reaching 90 kgs (198.42 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Kob
Also reaching around 1.7 meter (5′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Sitatunga gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Saola gets as big as 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Dama gazelle gets as big as 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Leopard gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Hirola gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Lion gets as big as 1.84 meter (6′ 1″)
- Nyala gets as big as 1.94 meter (6′ 5″)
- Barasingha gets as big as 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Arctocephalus forsteri gets as big as 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Australian sea lion gets as big as 1.8 meter (5′ 11″)