How many baby Tibetan antelopes are in a litter?
A Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 212 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.32 kg (2.9 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Pantholops). An adult Tibetan antelope grows up to a size of 1.83 meter (6′ 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 Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) (Tibetan: གཙོད་, Wylie: gtsod, pronounced [tsǿ]; Chinese: 藏羚羊; pinyin: zànglíngyáng) is a medium-sized bovid native to the Tibetan plateau. Fewer than 150,000 mature individuals are left in the wild, but the population is currently thought to be increasing. In 1980s and 1990s, they had become endangered due to massive illegal poaching. They are hunted for their extremely soft, light and warm underfur which is usually obtained after death. This underfur, known as shahtoosh (a Persian word meaning “king of fine wools”), is used to weave luxury shawls. Shahtoosh shawls were traditionally given as wedding gifts in India and it takes the underfur of 3-5 adult antelopes to make one shawl. Despite strict controls on trade of shahtoosh products and CITES listing, there is still demand for these luxury items. Within India, shawls are worth $1,000-$5,000, internationally the price can reach as high as $20,000.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Tibetan antelope is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Blue wildebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tamaraw with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cattle becoming 20 years old
- Anoa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Salt’s dik-dik with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Speke’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black wildebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chamois with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Domestic yak with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Tibetan antelope
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Horse
- Weddell seal
- Pudú
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle
- Pond bat
- Stephen’s woodrat
- Japanese macaque
- Hooded seal
- Schreber’s yellow bat
Animals with the same weight as a Tibetan antelope
What other animals weight around 32.66 kg (71.99 lbs)?
- Giant pangolin usually reaching 33 kgs (72.75 lbs)
- Eastern grey kangaroo usually reaching 33.51 kgs (73.88 lbs)
- Springbok usually reaching 33.39 kgs (73.61 lbs)
- Dibatag usually reaching 28.05 kgs (61.84 lbs)
- Striped hyena usually reaching 35.09 kgs (77.36 lbs)
- Red wolf usually reaching 26.7 kgs (58.86 lbs)
- Indian hog deer usually reaching 37.27 kgs (82.17 lbs)
- Goitered gazelle usually reaching 26.84 kgs (59.17 lbs)
- White-lipped peccary usually reaching 31.6 kgs (69.67 lbs)
- Finless porpoise usually reaching 32.5 kgs (71.65 lbs)