How many baby Sable antelopes are in a litter?
A Sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 272 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 16.46 kg (36.28 lbs) and measure 1.5 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Hippotragus). An adult Sable antelope grows up to a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″).
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 sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) is an antelope which inhabits wooded savanna in East and Southern Africa, from the south of Kenya to South Africa, with a separate population in Angola.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Sable antelope is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Goat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dibatag with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bohor reedbuck with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ogilby’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest weighting around 168.7 kilograms (371.92 lbs)
- Bighorn sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arabian tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grant’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Zebra duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-backed duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Sable antelope
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Northern ghost bat
- Bahamian hutia
- Forest giant squirrel
- Giant bandicoot
- Red-tailed squirrel
- White rhinoceros
- Fox’s shrew
- Little free-tailed bat
- Common noctule
- Moonrat
Animals that get as old as a Sable antelope
Other animals that usually reach the age of 22.25 years:
- Kit fox with 20 years
- Chamois with 22 years
- Goitered gazelle with 20 years
- Venezuelan red howler with 25 years
- Red-bellied titi with 25.25 years
- Wolverine with 18 years
- Ross seal with 21 years
- Japanese serow with 18.5 years
- Brown-mantled tamarin with 24.5 years
- Lesser kudu with 18.92 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sable antelope
What other animals weight around 235.2 kg (518.53 lbs)?
- Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin usually reaching 280 kgs (617.29 lbs)
- Mountain zebra usually reaching 279.73 kgs (616.7 lbs)
- Roan antelope usually reaching 262.09 kgs (577.81 lbs)
- Ross seal usually reaching 208.63 kgs (459.95 lbs)
- Bongo (antelope) usually reaching 269.5 kgs (594.15 lbs)
- Kiang usually reaching 280.57 kgs (618.55 lbs)
- Blue wildebeest usually reaching 197.31 kgs (434.99 lbs)
- Scimitar oryx usually reaching 198.4 kgs (437.4 lbs)
- Okapi usually reaching 230 kgs (507.06 lbs)
- East African oryx usually reaching 200.58 kgs (442.2 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sable antelope
Also reaching around 2.04 meter (6′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Bongo (antelope) gets as big as 2.27 meter (7′ 6″)
- Moose gets as big as 2.1 meter (6′ 11″)
- California sea lion gets as big as 2.02 meter (6′ 8″)
- Sambar deer gets as big as 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- Polar bear gets as big as 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Spinner dolphin gets as big as 2.13 meter (7′ 0″)
- Onager gets as big as 2.25 meter (7′ 5″)
- Anoa gets as big as 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Guadalupe fur seal gets as big as 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Giant forest hog gets as big as 2.03 meter (6′ 8″)