How many baby Saiga antelopes are in a litter?
A Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 148 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3.33 kg (7.34 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Saiga). An adult Saiga antelope grows up to a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″).
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 saiga antelope (, Saiga tatarica) is a critically endangered antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast. During the Pleistocene, they also occurred in Beringian North America and the British Isles. Today, the dominant subspecies (S. t. tatarica) is only found in one region in Russia (in the Republic of Kalmykia and Astrakhan Oblast) and three areas in Kazakhstan (the Ural, Ustiurt, and Betpak-Dala populations). A portion of the Ustiurt population migrates south to Uzbekistan and occasionally Turkmenistan in winter. It is extinct in China and southwestern Mongolia. It was hunted extensively in Romania and Moldova until it became extinct in those regions at the end of the 18th century. The Mongolian subspecies (S. t. mongolica) is found only in western Mongolia.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Saiga antelope is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Red-flanked duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bluebuck weighting around 150 kilograms (330.69 lbs)
- Common duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dall sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common eland with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Abbott’s duiker becoming 5.42 years old
- Himalayan goral with 1 babies per pregnancy
- American bison with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Markhor with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Speke’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Saiga antelope
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
- Rock hyrax
- Allegheny woodrat
- Bushpig
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat
- Grassland mosaic-tailed rat
- Cactus mouse
- True’s vole
- Jungle cat
- Giant white-tailed rat
Animals that get as old as a Saiga antelope
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12 years:
- Southern tree hyrax with 12.25 years
- Horsfield’s tarsier with 12 years
- Allied rock-wallaby with 13 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with 12 years
- Long-footed treeshrew with 12 years
- Groundhog with 10 years
- Hog badger with 13.92 years
- Banded linsang with 10.67 years
- Boodie with 10 years
- Fishing cat with 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Saiga antelope
What other animals weight around 37.57 kg (82.82 lbs)?
- Chilean dolphin usually reaching 45 kgs (99.21 lbs)
- Japanese serow usually reaching 42.6 kgs (93.92 lbs)
- La Plata dolphin usually reaching 40.5 kgs (89.29 lbs)
- Harnessed bushbuck usually reaching 43.28 kgs (95.42 lbs)
- Pampas deer usually reaching 34.55 kgs (76.17 lbs)
- Finless porpoise usually reaching 32.5 kgs (71.65 lbs)
- White-lipped peccary usually reaching 31.6 kgs (69.67 lbs)
- Chimpanzee usually reaching 45.03 kgs (99.27 lbs)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat usually reaching 31.88 kgs (70.28 lbs)
- Siberian roe deer usually reaching 41.19 kgs (90.81 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Saiga antelope
Also reaching around 1.16 meter (3′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Sun bear gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Himalayan goral gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Brown hyena gets as big as 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Aardvark gets as big as 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Capybara gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 0″)
- Pampas deer gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Springbok gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Black-fronted duiker gets as big as 94.4 cm (3′ 2″)
- Siberian roe deer gets as big as 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Philippine deer gets as big as 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)