How many baby Southern reedbucks are in a litter?
A Southern reedbuck (Redunca arundinum) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 220 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs) and measure 4.2 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Redunca). An adult Southern reedbuck grows up to a size of 1.51 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 southern reedbuck, rietbok or common reedbuck (Redunca arundinum) is a diurnal antelope typically found in southern Africa. It was first described by Pieter Boddaert, a Dutch physician and naturalist, in 1785. It is placed in the genus Redunca and family Bovidae. This antelope has an average mass of 58 kg (128 lb) and a body length of about 134–167 cm (53–66 in).
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Southern reedbuck is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Mountain gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cattle becoming 20 years old
- Anoa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Springbok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red forest duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Walia ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ruwenzori duiker weighting around 15 kilograms (33.07 lbs)
- Chinese goral becoming 17.25 years old
- Peters’s duiker weighting around 18.94 kilograms (41.76 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Southern reedbuck
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Red-bellied titi
- Walia ibex
- Woermann’s bat
- Plush-coated ringtail possum
- Thumbless bat
- Chital
- Green bush squirrel
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Kelaart’s pipistrelle
- Raffray’s bandicoot
Animals that get as old as a Southern reedbuck
Other animals that usually reach the age of 16.75 years:
- Lesser kudu with 18.92 years
- Wolverine with 18 years
- Pygmy marmoset with 15.08 years
- Fossa (animal) with 20 years
- Whiptail wallaby with 14 years
- Thomson’s gazelle with 15.17 years
- Celebes crested macaque with 18 years
- Sharpe’s grysbok with 14 years
- Steenbok with 14 years
- Roe deer with 17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Southern reedbuck
What other animals weight around 57.94 kg (127.73 lbs)?
- Taruca usually reaching 68.6 kgs (151.24 lbs)
- Markhor usually reaching 53.95 kgs (118.94 lbs)
- Capybara usually reaching 48.14 kgs (106.13 lbs)
- Chital usually reaching 69.5 kgs (153.22 lbs)
- West Caucasian tur usually reaching 60.73 kgs (133.89 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer usually reaching 46.48 kgs (102.47 lbs)
- Northern fur seal usually reaching 55.58 kgs (122.53 lbs)
- Harbour porpoise usually reaching 52.72 kgs (116.23 lbs)
- Jentink’s duiker usually reaching 68 kgs (149.91 lbs)
- Cheetah usually reaching 50.54 kgs (111.42 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Southern reedbuck
Also reaching around 1.51 meter (5′ 0″) in size do these animals:
- Spotted seal gets as big as 1.64 meter (5′ 5″)
- Gemsbok gets as big as 1.62 meter (5′ 4″)
- Visayan warty pig gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Gerenuk gets as big as 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Cheetah gets as big as 1.48 meter (4′ 11″)
- Argali gets as big as 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Subantarctic fur seal gets as big as 1.63 meter (5′ 4″)
- Antarctic fur seal gets as big as 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Pronghorn gets as big as 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Jaguar gets as big as 1.33 meter (4′ 5″)