How many baby Scimitar oryxs are in a litter?
A Scimitar oryx (Oryx dammah) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 248 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 9.71 kg (21.4 lbs) and measure 2.37 meter (7′ 10″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Oryx). An adult Scimitar oryx grows up to a size of 1.91 meter (6′ 4″).
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 scimitar oryx or scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah), also known as the Sahara oryx, is a species of Oryx that was once widespread across North Africa. The species went extinct in the wild in 2000 but a group was released into an acclimation enclosure within the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve in 2016, then reintroduced back into the wild. 21 additional animals were placed in the acclimation enclosure in 2017.The scimitar oryx has a long taxonomic history since its scientific description in 1816 by Lorenz Oken, who named it Oryx algazel. This antelope stands a little more than 1 metre (3.3 ft) at the shoulder. The males weigh 140–210 kg (310–460 lb) and the females weigh 91–140 kg (201–309 lb). The coat is white with a red-brown chest and black markings on the forehead and down the length of the nose. The calves are born with a yellow coat without distinguishing marks; their coats change to adult coloration at 3–12 months old.The scimitar oryx formed herds of mixed sexes of up to 70 members, usually guided by the bulls. They inhabited semideserts and deserts and were adapted to live in the extreme heat, with their efficient cooling mechanism and very low requirement of water. Scimitar oryx feed on foliage, grasses, succulent plants and plant parts during the night or early morning. Births peak between March and October. After a gestation of eight to nine months, one calf is born. Soon after, the female has a postpartum estrus.The scimitar oryx was once widespread across northern Africa. Its decline began as a result of climate change during the neolithic period, and later it was hunted extensively for its horns. Today, it is bred in captivity in special reserves in Tunisia, Morocco and Senegal and on private exotic animal ranches in the Texas Hill Country. In 2016 a reintroduction program was launched and currently a small herd has been successfully reintroduced in Chad.The scimitar oryx was domesticated in Ancient Egypt and is believed to have been used as food and sacrificed as offerings to gods. Wealthy people in Ancient Rome also bred them. The use of their valuable hides began in the Middle Ages. The unicorn myth may have originated from sightings of a scimitar oryx with a broken horn.The scimitar oryx was the emblem of the ancient Egyptian Oryx nome and today is the animal symbol of the Sahara Conservation Fund.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Scimitar oryx is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Thomson’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dorcas gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dama gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Abbott’s duiker becoming 5.42 years old
- Sharpe’s grysbok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bongo (antelope) with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hirola with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Snow sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Banteng with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Scimitar oryx
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur
- Natal long-fingered bat
- Argentine brown bat
- Variegated butterfly bat
- Three-striped night monkey
- Sinaloan mastiff bat
- Spectral tarsier
- Zanzibar bushbaby
- Southwestern myotis
- Sitatunga
Animals that get as old as a Scimitar oryx
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20.42 years:
- Mohol bushbaby with 16.5 years
- Indian muntjac with 17.58 years
- Nabarlek with 17 years
- Crested mona monkey with 24.08 years
- White-lipped peccary with 21 years
- Roe deer with 17 years
- Swift fox with 20 years
- Père David’s deer with 23.25 years
- Black-fronted duiker with 19.67 years
- Moustached guenon with 23 years
Animals with the same weight as a Scimitar oryx
What other animals weight around 198.4 kg (437.39 lbs)?
- Philippine warty pig usually reaching 189.4 kgs (417.56 lbs)
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest usually reaching 168 kgs (370.38 lbs)
- Nilgai usually reaching 181.63 kgs (400.43 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer usually reaching 161.68 kgs (356.44 lbs)
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin usually reaching 186.76 kgs (411.73 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer usually reaching 161 kgs (354.94 lbs)
- Okapi usually reaching 230 kgs (507.06 lbs)
- Melon-headed whale usually reaching 206 kgs (454.15 lbs)
- South American sea lion usually reaching 194 kgs (427.7 lbs)
- Lion usually reaching 158.75 kgs (349.98 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Scimitar oryx
Also reaching around 1.91 meter (6′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Okapi gets as big as 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Greater kudu gets as big as 2.2 meter (7′ 3″)
- Grant’s gazelle gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Spotted seal gets as big as 1.64 meter (5′ 5″)
- Hirola gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Llama gets as big as 1.66 meter (5′ 6″)
- Ribbon seal gets as big as 1.54 meter (5′ 1″)
- Kob gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Caribbean monk seal gets as big as 2.29 meter (7′ 7″)
- Takin gets as big as 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)