How many baby Sitatungas are in a litter?
A Sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 241 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4 kg (8.82 lbs) and measure 36.8 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Tragelaphus). An adult Sitatunga grows up to a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″).
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 sitatunga or marshbuck (Tragelaphus spekii) is a swamp-dwelling antelope found throughout central Africa, centering on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, parts of Southern Sudan, Ghana, Botswana, Rwanda, Zambia, Gabon, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.The sitatunga is confined to swampy and marshy habitats. Here they occur in tall and dense vegetation as well as seasonal swamps, marshy clearings in forests, riparian thickets and mangrove swamps.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Sitatunga is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Mountain gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian ibex becoming 22.25 years old
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Addax with 1 babies per pregnancy
- European bison with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest weighting around 168.7 kilograms (371.92 lbs)
- Bongo (antelope) with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Harvey’s duiker weighting around 14.5 kilograms (31.97 lbs)
- Japanese serow with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arabian tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Sitatunga
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Diana monkey
- Amazon river dolphin
- Sunda slow loris
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat
- Spectral tarsier
- Collared titi
- Siamang
- Admiralty Island cuscus
- Vicuña
- Long-footed water rat
Animals that get as old as a Sitatunga
Other animals that usually reach the age of 21.5 years:
- Sheep with 19.17 years
- Goeldi’s marmoset with 17.83 years
- Collared peccary with 24.42 years
- Red goral with 18.25 years
- Barbary sheep with 21 years
- Brazilian porcupine with 17.25 years
- Greater kudu with 23 years
- Dama gazelle with 17.25 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with 21.17 years
- Hector’s dolphin with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sitatunga
What other animals weight around 75.28 kg (165.96 lbs)?
- Puku usually reaching 71.23 kgs (157.04 lbs)
- Australophocaena dioptrica usually reaching 65 kgs (143.3 lbs)
- Alpine ibex usually reaching 69.42 kgs (153.04 lbs)
- Chital usually reaching 69.5 kgs (153.22 lbs)
- Dama gazelle usually reaching 70.4 kgs (155.21 lbs)
- West Caucasian tur usually reaching 60.73 kgs (133.89 lbs)
- Javan rusa usually reaching 66.38 kgs (146.34 lbs)
- Jaguar usually reaching 84.26 kgs (185.76 lbs)
- Arabian oryx usually reaching 75.43 kgs (166.29 lbs)
- Jentink’s duiker usually reaching 68 kgs (149.91 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sitatunga
Also reaching around 1.52 meter (5′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Anoa gets as big as 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Cheetah gets as big as 1.48 meter (4′ 11″)
- Siberian roe deer gets as big as 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Tiger gets as big as 1.83 meter (6′ 0″)
- Common tsessebe gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Sheep gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Guanaco gets as big as 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Black wildebeest gets as big as 1.82 meter (6′ 0″)
- Dama gazelle gets as big as 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)