How many baby Red-fronted gazelles are in a litter?
A Red-fronted gazelle (Eudorcas rufifrons) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 174 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 grams (0 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Eudorcas). An adult Red-fronted gazelle grows up to a size of 88.5 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 red-fronted gazelle (Eudorcas rufifrons) is widely but unevenly distributed gazelle across the middle of Africa from Senegal to northeastern Ethiopia. It is mainly resident in the Sahel zone, a narrow cross-Africa band south of the Sahara, where it prefers arid grasslands, wooded savannas and shrubby steppes.One authority considers Thomson’s gazelle (E. thomsoni), of East Africa, a subspecies of red-fronted gazelle. The red-fronted gazelle was formerly considered a member of the genus Gazella within the subgenus Eudorcas before Eudorcas was elevated to generic status.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Red-fronted gazelle is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Arabian oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Argali with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-fronted duiker becoming 19.67 years old
- Arabian tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pyrenean chamois weighting around 30 kilograms (66.14 lbs)
- White-bellied duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape grysbok becoming 14 years old
- Chinkara weighting around 18.91 kilograms (41.69 lbs)
- Urial with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Red-fronted gazelle
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Striped dolphin
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Blue duiker
- Pennant’s colobus
- Eastern forest bat
- White-nosed saki
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
- Masoala fork-marked lemur
- François’ langur
- Bushveld elephant shrew
Animals that get as old as a Red-fronted gazelle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 13.5 years:
- Kodkod with 11 years
- Whiptail wallaby with 14 years
- Brown mouse lemur with 12 years
- Hirola with 15.17 years
- Dhole with 16 years
- Urial with 13.75 years
- Malagasy civet with 11 years
- Banded palm civet with 12 years
- Ring-tailed vontsira with 13.17 years
- Black-footed ferret with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red-fronted gazelle
What other animals weight around 27 kg (59.52 lbs)?
- Sea otter usually reaching 27.46 kgs (60.54 lbs)
- Maned wolf usually reaching 23.31 kgs (51.39 lbs)
- Rhim gazelle usually reaching 24.47 kgs (53.95 lbs)
- Grey rhebok usually reaching 22.62 kgs (49.87 lbs)
- Dwarf blue sheep usually reaching 29.27 kgs (64.53 lbs)
- Antilopine kangaroo usually reaching 27.28 kgs (60.14 lbs)
- Mountain reedbuck usually reaching 29.2 kgs (64.37 lbs)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat usually reaching 31.88 kgs (70.28 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.6 kgs (49.82 lbs)
- Giant anteater usually reaching 28.72 kgs (63.32 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Red-fronted gazelle
Also reaching around 88.5 cm (2′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Maxwell’s duiker gets as big as 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Chacoan peccary gets as big as 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Culpeo gets as big as 72 cm (2′ 5″)
- African wild dog gets as big as 92.4 cm (3′ 1″)
- Black musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo gets as big as 71.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby gets as big as 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Iberian lynx gets as big as 96.3 cm (3′ 2″)
- Mandrill gets as big as 75.8 cm (2′ 6″)
- Black-backed jackal gets as big as 70.9 cm (2′ 4″)