How many baby Rhim gazelles are in a litter?
A Rhim gazelle (Gazella leptoceros) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 167 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 Rhim gazelle grows up to a size of 1.03 meter (3′ 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 rhim gazelle or rhim (Gazella leptoceros), also known as the slender-horned gazelle, sand gazelle or Loder’s gazelle, is a pale-coated gazelle with long slender horns and well adapted to desert life. It is considered an endangered species because fewer than 2500 are left in the wild. These gazelles are found in Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya and Sudan.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Rhim gazelle is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Bluebuck weighting around 150 kilograms (330.69 lbs)
- Kirk’s dik-dik with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thomson’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Salt’s dik-dik with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Scimitar oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red hartebeest becoming 15.25 years old
- Yellow-backed duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arabian oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sumatran serow with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pyrenean chamois weighting around 30 kilograms (66.14 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Rhim gazelle
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Montane fish-eating rat
- Lion-tailed macaque
- Hottentot golden mole
- Monjon
- Blyth’s vole
- Java mouse-deer
- Eastern grey kangaroo
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat
- Natal red rock hare
- Macleay’s dorcopsis
Animals that get as old as a Rhim gazelle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14 years:
- Royal antelope with 14 years
- Squirrel glider with 12 years
- Mexican free-tailed bat with 15 years
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax with 14 years
- Crab-eating raccoon with 14 years
- Hamlyn’s monkey with 13.5 years
- Red squirrel with 12 years
- Dhole with 16 years
- Llama with 14.17 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Rhim gazelle
What other animals weight around 24.47 kg (53.95 lbs)?
- Red brocket usually reaching 20.42 kgs (45.02 lbs)
- Przewalski’s gazelle usually reaching 27.5 kgs (60.63 lbs)
- Goa (antelope) usually reaching 23.13 kgs (50.99 lbs)
- Goitered gazelle usually reaching 26.84 kgs (59.17 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.91 kgs (50.51 lbs)
- Mountain gazelle usually reaching 21.25 kgs (46.85 lbs)
- Collared peccary usually reaching 21.19 kgs (46.72 lbs)
- Long-tailed goral usually reaching 27 kgs (59.52 lbs)
- Common wombat usually reaching 26 kgs (57.32 lbs)
- Lesser capybara usually reaching 21.27 kgs (46.89 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Rhim gazelle
Also reaching around 1.03 meter (3′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Mountain reedbuck gets as big as 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)
- Arabian tahr gets as big as 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Iberian ibex gets as big as 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Sun bear gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Indian muntjac gets as big as 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Springbok gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat gets as big as 85.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Siberian musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)