How many baby Speke’s gazelles are in a litter?
A Speke’s gazelle (Gazella spekei) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 178 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.25 kg (2.76 lbs) and measure 4.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Gazella). An adult Speke’s gazelle grows up to a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″).
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 Speke’s gazelle (Gazella spekei) is the smallest of the gazelle species. It is confined to the Horn of Africa, where it inhabits stony brush, grass steppes, and semideserts. This species has been sometimes regarded as a subspecies of the Dorcas gazelle, though this is now widely disregarded. Severe habitat fragmentation means it is now impossible to assess the natural migratory or nomadic patterns of G. spekei. Its numbers are under threat, and despite an increase in population, the IUCN in 2007 announced its status had changed from vulnerable to endangered. A captive population is maintained, and the wild population exists in the lower tens of thousands. As of 2008, this gazelle is classified as endangered under the IUCN Red List.Speke’s gazelle is named after John Hanning Speke, an English explorer of Central Africa.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Speke’s gazelle is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Rhim gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peters’s duiker weighting around 18.94 kilograms (41.76 lbs)
- Bontebok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common tsessebe with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain nyala with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese serow with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Southern reedbuck with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Harvey’s duiker weighting around 14.5 kilograms (31.97 lbs)
- Aders’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Oribi with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Speke’s gazelle
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Brown titi
- Grant’s forest shrew
- Black lemur
- Aye-aye
- Banana pipistrelle
- Hamlyn’s monkey
- Alpaca
- Variegated butterfly bat
- Broad-toothed mouse
- La Plata dolphin
Animals that get as old as a Speke’s gazelle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 12.67 years:
- Maned sloth with 12 years
- Jaguarundi with 10.58 years
- Banded palm civet with 12 years
- Harbour porpoise with 15 years
- Black-mantled tamarin with 15.17 years
- Heterohyrax antineae with 12 years
- Black-footed cat with 12 years
- South African springhare with 14.5 years
- Long-footed treeshrew with 12 years
- Indian pangolin with 13.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Speke’s gazelle
What other animals weight around 20 kg (44.09 lbs)?
- Gray brocket usually reaching 16.4 kgs (36.16 lbs)
- African clawless otter usually reaching 19.16 kgs (42.24 lbs)
- Tufted deer usually reaching 23.04 kgs (50.79 lbs)
- Black wallaroo usually reaching 17 kgs (37.48 lbs)
- Four-horned antelope usually reaching 19.19 kgs (42.31 lbs)
- Chinkara usually reaching 18.91 kgs (41.69 lbs)
- Pygmy brocket usually reaching 16.5 kgs (36.38 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.6 kgs (49.82 lbs)
- Cameroon clawless otter usually reaching 21.6 kgs (47.62 lbs)
- Mandrill usually reaching 16.74 kgs (36.91 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Speke’s gazelle
Also reaching around 88.5 cm (2′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Indian crested porcupine gets as big as 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Zebra duiker gets as big as 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Goitered gazelle gets as big as 95.8 cm (3′ 2″)
- Binturong gets as big as 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
- North American porcupine gets as big as 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat gets as big as 1 meter (3′ 4″)
- Golden jackal gets as big as 83 cm (2′ 9″)
- Bonobo gets as big as 75.3 cm (2′ 6″)
- Caracal gets as big as 74.1 cm (2′ 6″)
- Ethiopian wolf gets as big as 94.1 cm (3′ 2″)