How many baby Red-fronted gazelles are in a litter?
A Red-fronted gazelle (Gazella 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 4.62 kg (10.19 lbs) and measure 49.9 cm (1′ 8″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Gazella). 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:
- Impala with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Aders’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bongo (antelope) with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Muskox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Scimitar oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Urial with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater kudu with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nyala with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed goral becoming 13.17 years old
Animals that share a litter size with Red-fronted gazelle
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Jameson’s red rock hare
- Brown greater galago
- South African springhare
- Western long-beaked echidna
- Parma wallaby
- Common eland
- Little red brocket
- Black wildebeest
- Diana monkey
- Northern bat
Animals that get as old as a Red-fronted gazelle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 13.5 years:
- Smooth-coated otter with 15 years
- Whiptail wallaby with 14 years
- Pygmy marmoset with 15.08 years
- Swamp wallaby with 15 years
- Yellow-bellied glider with 16 years
- Black-footed mongoose with 15.83 years
- Common treeshrew with 12.42 years
- Malabar large-spotted civet with 14 years
- Santarem marmoset with 15 years
- Horsfield’s tarsier with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red-fronted gazelle
What other animals weight around 27 kg (59.52 lbs)?
- Western grey kangaroo usually reaching 25.58 kgs (56.39 lbs)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat usually reaching 31.88 kgs (70.28 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.91 kgs (50.51 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.6 kgs (49.82 lbs)
- Antilopine kangaroo usually reaching 27.28 kgs (60.14 lbs)
- Red-fronted gazelle usually reaching 27 kgs (59.52 lbs)
- Thylacine usually reaching 30 kgs (66.14 lbs)
- Red wolf usually reaching 26.7 kgs (58.86 lbs)
- Common wombat usually reaching 26 kgs (57.32 lbs)
- African wild dog usually reaching 22 kgs (48.5 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Red-fronted gazelle
Also reaching around 88.5 cm (2′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Gray brocket gets as big as 92.3 cm (3′ 1″)
- Falkland Islands wolf gets as big as 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Black-fronted duiker gets as big as 94.4 cm (3′ 2″)
- Rhim gazelle gets as big as 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle gets as big as 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- African wild dog gets as big as 92.4 cm (3′ 1″)
- Smooth-coated otter gets as big as 78.8 cm (2′ 8″)
- Wolverine gets as big as 77.3 cm (2′ 7″)
- Pacarana gets as big as 75 cm (2′ 6″)