How many baby Thomson’s gazelles are in a litter?
A Thomson’s gazelle (Gazella thomsonii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 166 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2.5 kg (5.51 lbs) and measure 4.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Gazella). An adult Thomson’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.
Thomson’s gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) is one of the best-known gazelles. It is named after explorer Joseph Thomson and is sometimes referred to as a “tommie”. It is considered by some to be a subspecies of the red-fronted gazelle and was formerly considered a member of the genus Gazella within the subgenus Eudorcas, before Eudorcas was elevated to genus status. Thomson’s gazelles can be found in numbers exceeding 550,000 in Africa and are recognized as the most common type of gazelle in East Africa. The Thomson’s gazelle can reach speeds of 80–90 km/h (50–55 mph). It is the fifth-fastest land animal, after the cheetah (its main predator), pronghorn, springbok, and wildebeest.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Thomson’s gazelle is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Kob with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-flanked duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Przewalski’s gazelle weighting around 27.5 kilograms (60.63 lbs)
- Red forest duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dibatag with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Himalayan tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Addax with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Silver dik-dik with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Goat with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Thomson’s gazelle
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey
- Argali
- Iberian ibex
- Dorcas gazelle
- Squirrel glider
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
- Dromedary
- White-throated guenon
- Blackish deer mouse
Animals that get as old as a Thomson’s gazelle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15.17 years:
- Black-backed jackal with 14 years
- Red forest duiker with 15 years
- Guinea pig with 14.75 years
- Urial with 13.75 years
- Golden jackal with 16 years
- North American beaver with 15 years
- Sable with 15 years
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with 13 years
- Beech marten with 18.08 years
- Müeller’s gibbon with 14.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Thomson’s gazelle
What other animals weight around 22.6 kg (49.82 lbs)?
- Western grey kangaroo usually reaching 25.58 kgs (56.39 lbs)
- Black duiker usually reaching 19 kgs (41.89 lbs)
- Goa (antelope) usually reaching 23.13 kgs (50.99 lbs)
- Roe deer usually reaching 22.45 kgs (49.49 lbs)
- Eurasian beaver usually reaching 19 kgs (41.89 lbs)
- African clawless otter usually reaching 19.16 kgs (42.24 lbs)
- Common wombat usually reaching 26 kgs (57.32 lbs)
- Red-fronted gazelle usually reaching 27 kgs (59.52 lbs)
- Four-horned antelope usually reaching 19.19 kgs (42.31 lbs)
- Goitered gazelle usually reaching 26.84 kgs (59.17 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Thomson’s gazelle
Also reaching around 88.5 cm (2′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Chacoan peccary gets as big as 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Iberian lynx gets as big as 96.3 cm (3′ 2″)
- Springbok gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Collared peccary gets as big as 88.6 cm (2′ 11″)
- Short-eared dog gets as big as 83.3 cm (2′ 9″)
- Common duiker gets as big as 96.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Siamang gets as big as 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby gets as big as 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Bornean yellow muntjac gets as big as 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)