How many baby Steenboks are in a litter?
A Steenbok (Raphicerus campestris) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 210 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 Steenbok grows up to a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″).
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 steenbok (Raphicerus campestris) is a common small antelope of southern and eastern Africa. It is sometimes known as the steinbuck or steinbok.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Steenbok is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Red hartebeest becoming 15.25 years old
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lechwe with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common tsessebe with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Oribi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Goitered gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Suni with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-flanked duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cuvier’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Steenbok
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Sowerby’s beaked whale
- South African springhare
- Guinea baboon
- Thomson’s gazelle
- New Zealand sea lion
- Hector’s dolphin
- Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin
- Mongoose lemur
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo
- Sooty mangabey
Animals that get as old as a Steenbok
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14 years:
- Lowland paca with 16 years
- Coypu with 12 years
- Malabar large-spotted civet with 14 years
- Pampas fox with 13.67 years
- Gray brocket with 12 years
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with 12 years
- Java mouse-deer with 12 years
- Yellow-bellied glider with 16 years
- Llama with 14.17 years
- Maxwell’s duiker with 12.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Steenbok
What other animals weight around 11.64 kg (25.66 lbs)?
- Canada lynx usually reaching 9.73 kgs (21.45 lbs)
- Siamang usually reaching 10.9 kgs (24.03 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey usually reaching 12.3 kgs (27.12 lbs)
- Tibetan macaque usually reaching 10.6 kgs (23.37 lbs)
- Northern plains gray langur usually reaching 12.64 kgs (27.87 lbs)
- Black-footed gray langur usually reaching 10.03 kgs (22.11 lbs)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo usually reaching 13.28 kgs (29.28 lbs)
- Red forest duiker usually reaching 12.36 kgs (27.25 lbs)
- Water chevrotain usually reaching 10.83 kgs (23.88 lbs)
- Klipspringer usually reaching 13.46 kgs (29.67 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Steenbok
Also reaching around 82.4 cm (2′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Aardwolf gets as big as 69.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Iberian lynx gets as big as 96.3 cm (3′ 2″)
- Speke’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Fossa (animal) gets as big as 72.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Coyote gets as big as 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Short-eared dog gets as big as 83.3 cm (2′ 9″)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey gets as big as 70.7 cm (2′ 4″)
- Collared mangabey gets as big as 66 cm (2′ 2″)
- Maxwell’s duiker gets as big as 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)