How many baby Soemmerring’s gazelles are in a litter?
A Soemmerring’s gazelle (Gazella soemmerringii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 192 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 33 grams (0.07 lbs) and measure 4.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Gazella). An adult Soemmerring’s gazelle grows up to a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″).
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 Soemmerring’s gazelle (Nanger soemmerringii, formerly Gazella soemmerringii), also known as Abyssinian mohr, is a gazelle species native to the Horn of Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan). The species was described and given its binomen by German physician Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar in 1828. Three subspecies are recognized. It is no longer present in Sudan.Since 1986, Soemmerring’s gazelle has been classified as Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Soemmerring’s gazelle is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Red forest duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bluebuck weighting around 150 kilograms (330.69 lbs)
- Water buffalo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kob with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Roan antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red gazelle weighting around 40 kilograms (88.18 lbs)
- Sable antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Siberian ibex becoming 22.25 years old
- Gayal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grey rhebok with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Soemmerring’s gazelle
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat
- Stephen’s woodrat
- Proboscis monkey
- Banana pipistrelle
- Hildegarde’s tomb bat
- Honduran white bat
- Big free-tailed bat
- Greater dog-like bat
- Broad-toothed mouse
- Cape horseshoe bat
Animals that get as old as a Soemmerring’s gazelle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15.5 years:
- Crab-eating mongoose with 13.33 years
- Beech marten with 18.08 years
- Northern bat with 15.5 years
- Leopard cat with 15 years
- Cape ground squirrel with 13 years
- Geoffroy’s bat with 18 years
- Llama with 14.17 years
- Caracal with 17 years
- Thylacine with 13 years
- Small-toothed palm civet with 15.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Soemmerring’s gazelle
What other animals weight around 41 kg (90.39 lbs)?
- Saiga antelope usually reaching 37.57 kgs (82.83 lbs)
- Pronghorn usually reaching 47.18 kgs (104.01 lbs)
- Japanese serow usually reaching 42.6 kgs (93.92 lbs)
- Brown hyena usually reaching 43.4 kgs (95.68 lbs)
- Goat usually reaching 47.14 kgs (103.93 lbs)
- Galápagos fur seal usually reaching 39.47 kgs (87.02 lbs)
- Chilean dolphin usually reaching 45 kgs (99.21 lbs)
- Brown hyena usually reaching 42.98 kgs (94.75 lbs)
- Philippine deer usually reaching 49.1 kgs (108.25 lbs)
- Indian hog deer usually reaching 37.27 kgs (82.17 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Soemmerring’s gazelle
Also reaching around 1.36 meter (4′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Ribbon seal gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Common warthog gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Sheep gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Mountain reedbuck gets as big as 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)
- Baikal seal gets as big as 1.27 meter (4′ 3″)
- Harbour porpoise gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Vicuña gets as big as 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Sloth bear gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- American black bear gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)