How many baby Pukus are in a litter?
A Puku (Kobus vardonii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 258 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5.79 kg (12.77 lbs) and measure 8.5 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Kobus). An adult Puku grows up to a size of 1.34 meter (4′ 5″).
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 puku (Kobus vardonii) is a medium-sized antelope found in wet grasslands in southern Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zambia. Nearly one-third of all puku are found in protected areas, zoos, and national parks due to their diminishing habitat.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Puku is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Red forest duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Suni with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-flanked duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cattle becoming 20 years old
- Siberian ibex becoming 22.25 years old
- Cape grysbok becoming 14 years old
- Himalayan goral with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arabian tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Muskox with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Puku
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sharpe’s grysbok
- Atlantic bamboo rat
- Melanomys caliginosus
- Red acouchi
- Brown-throated sloth
- White-bellied free-tailed bat
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat
- Mountain paca
- Taiwan vole
- Little red flying fox
Animals with the same weight as a Puku
What other animals weight around 71.23 kg (157.04 lbs)?
- Commerson’s dolphin usually reaching 72.4 kgs (159.61 lbs)
- White-tailed deer usually reaching 75.6 kgs (166.67 lbs)
- Alpaca usually reaching 64.9 kgs (143.08 lbs)
- Persian fallow deer usually reaching 74.4 kgs (164.02 lbs)
- Sun bear usually reaching 57.04 kgs (125.75 lbs)
- Iberian ibex usually reaching 60.55 kgs (133.49 lbs)
- Alpine ibex usually reaching 69.42 kgs (153.04 lbs)
- Burmeister’s porpoise usually reaching 60 kgs (132.28 lbs)
- Dama gazelle usually reaching 70.4 kgs (155.21 lbs)
- Jaguar usually reaching 84.26 kgs (185.76 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Puku
Also reaching around 1.34 meter (4′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Sea otter gets as big as 1.44 meter (4′ 9″)
- White-lipped peccary gets as big as 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
- Philippine deer gets as big as 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Vaquita gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Vicuña gets as big as 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Sitatunga gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- White-tailed deer gets as big as 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Grant’s gazelle gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Red wolf gets as big as 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Maned wolf gets as big as 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)