How many baby Mountain gazelles are in a litter?
A Mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 180 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2.13 kg (4.69 lbs) and measure 49.9 cm (1′ 8″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Gazella). An adult Mountain gazelle grows up to a size of 1.01 meter (3′ 4″).
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 mountain gazelle or the Palestine mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) is a species of gazelle widely but unevenly distributed.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Mountain gazelle is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Hartebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Royal antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grant’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common tsessebe with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black wildebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ogilby’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain nyala with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hirola with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Saudi gazelle weighting around 16 kilograms (35.27 lbs)
- Southern reedbuck with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mountain gazelle
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Golden bamboo lemur
- Diana monkey
- Madagascan fruit bat
- Least pipistrelle
- Red-tailed squirrel
- Oncilla
- Peale’s free-tailed bat
- Ear-spot squirrel
- Mantled guereza
- Southern reedbuck
Animals that get as old as a Mountain gazelle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 18.25 years:
- Greater glider with 15 years
- Arabian oryx with 20 years
- Sable with 15 years
- Koala with 20 years
- Nilgai with 21.67 years
- Himalayan tahr with 21.75 years
- Giant forest hog with 18 years
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo with 20 years
- Cattle with 20 years
- Big brown bat with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain gazelle
What other animals weight around 21.25 kg (46.85 lbs)?
- Oribi usually reaching 17.16 kgs (37.83 lbs)
- Chinkara usually reaching 18.91 kgs (41.69 lbs)
- Four-horned antelope usually reaching 19.19 kgs (42.31 lbs)
- Eurasian beaver usually reaching 19 kgs (41.89 lbs)
- Goa (antelope) usually reaching 23.13 kgs (50.99 lbs)
- Arabian gazelle usually reaching 18.06 kgs (39.82 lbs)
- Black duiker usually reaching 19 kgs (41.89 lbs)
- Rhim gazelle usually reaching 24.47 kgs (53.95 lbs)
- Bay duiker usually reaching 20 kgs (44.09 lbs)
- Olive baboon usually reaching 17.73 kgs (39.09 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mountain gazelle
Also reaching around 1.01 meter (3′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Four-horned antelope gets as big as 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat gets as big as 1 meter (3′ 4″)
- Japanese macaque gets as big as 82.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Falkland Islands wolf gets as big as 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Dorcas gazelle gets as big as 96.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Thomson’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Alpine musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Red goral gets as big as 1.04 meter (3′ 5″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Large Indian civet gets as big as 81.9 cm (2′ 9″)