How many baby Sharpe’s grysboks are in a litter?
A Sharpe’s grysbok (Raphicerus sharpei) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 212 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 916 grams (2.02 lbs) and measure 15 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Raphicerus). An adult Sharpe’s grysbok grows up to a size of 67.9 cm (2′ 3″).
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.
Sharpe’s or northern grysbok (Raphicerus sharpei) is a small, shy, solitary antelope that is found from tropical to south-eastern Africa.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Sharpe’s grysbok is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Mountain reedbuck becoming 12.25 years old
- Tibetan antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cuvier’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red gazelle weighting around 40 kilograms (88.18 lbs)
- Common duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dibatag with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arabian oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thomson’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nyala with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Sharpe’s grysbok
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Olive colobus
- Lesser tree mouse
- Sika deer
- Greater mouse-deer
- Fulvus roundleaf bat
- South Asian river dolphin
- Common blossom bat
- Pallas’s squirrel
- White-faced spiny tree-rat
- Hammer-headed bat
Animals that get as old as a Sharpe’s grysbok
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14 years:
- Tammar wallaby with 14 years
- Whiptail wallaby with 14 years
- Pampas fox with 13.67 years
- Red fox with 15 years
- Greater mouse-deer with 16.25 years
- Black-striped wallaby with 15 years
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with 13 years
- Water chevrotain with 14 years
- Desert rat-kangaroo with 13 years
- Pampas fox with 13.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sharpe’s grysbok
What other animals weight around 9.37 kg (20.67 lbs)?
- Gee’s golden langur usually reaching 8.36 kgs (18.43 lbs)
- Canada lynx usually reaching 9.73 kgs (21.45 lbs)
- Pudú usually reaching 9.6 kgs (21.16 lbs)
- Lowland paca usually reaching 8.17 kgs (18.01 lbs)
- Pennant’s colobus usually reaching 9.16 kgs (20.19 lbs)
- Hog badger usually reaching 8.17 kgs (18.01 lbs)
- Malayan porcupine usually reaching 8 kgs (17.64 lbs)
- Siamang usually reaching 10.9 kgs (24.03 lbs)
- Greater long-nosed armadillo usually reaching 9.7 kgs (21.38 lbs)
- Black-shanked douc usually reaching 10.33 kgs (22.77 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sharpe’s grysbok
Also reaching around 67.9 cm (2′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- Suni gets as big as 59.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Aardwolf gets as big as 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Patas monkey gets as big as 66.5 cm (2′ 3″)
- Sechuran fox gets as big as 56.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Jaguarundi gets as big as 70.1 cm (2′ 4″)
- Crab-eating fox gets as big as 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Nilgiri langur gets as big as 55.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Golden snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 64.7 cm (2′ 2″)
- Gee’s golden langur gets as big as 60.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- White-nosed coati gets as big as 55 cm (1′ 10″)