How many baby Thomson’s gazelles are in a litter?
A Thomson’s gazelle (Eudorcas 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 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Eudorcas). 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:
- Beira (antelope) with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dall sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blue wildebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nile lechwe becoming 18.67 years old
- Suni with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Roan antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Urial with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Walia ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Jentink’s duiker 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 mouse-tailed bat
- Oecomys concolor
- Waterbuck
- Sinaloan mastiff bat
- Black-winged little yellow bat
- Bowhead whale
- Arctocephalus forsteri
- Spectral tarsier
- La Plata dolphin
- Giant roundleaf bat
Animals that get as old as a Thomson’s gazelle
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15.17 years:
- Lowland paca with 16 years
- Brown hyena with 17 years
- Nilgiri tahr with 17.25 years
- Red-fronted gazelle with 13.5 years
- Fennec fox with 14.58 years
- Salt’s dik-dik with 14 years
- Southern tree hyrax with 12.25 years
- North American porcupine with 18 years
- Müeller’s gibbon with 14.5 years
- Common marmoset with 16.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Thomson’s gazelle
What other animals weight around 22.91 kg (50.5 lbs)?
- Red wolf usually reaching 26.7 kgs (58.86 lbs)
- Speke’s gazelle usually reaching 20 kgs (44.09 lbs)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat usually reaching 26.18 kgs (57.72 lbs)
- Fea’s muntjac usually reaching 19.9 kgs (43.87 lbs)
- Grey rhebok usually reaching 22.62 kgs (49.87 lbs)
- Common wombat usually reaching 26 kgs (57.32 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.6 kgs (49.82 lbs)
- Bay duiker usually reaching 20 kgs (44.09 lbs)
- Four-horned antelope usually reaching 19.19 kgs (42.31 lbs)
- Red brocket usually reaching 20.42 kgs (45.02 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Thomson’s gazelle
Also reaching around 88.5 cm (2′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Side-striped jackal gets as big as 74.7 cm (2′ 6″)
- African wild dog gets as big as 92.4 cm (3′ 1″)
- Bornean orangutan gets as big as 89 cm (3′ 0″)
- Indian crested porcupine gets as big as 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Smooth-coated otter gets as big as 78.8 cm (2′ 8″)
- Mountain gazelle gets as big as 1.01 meter (3′ 4″)
- Ethiopian wolf gets as big as 94.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Thomson’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Himalayan goral gets as big as 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Buru babirusa gets as big as 95 cm (3′ 2″)