It is hard to guess what a Dama gazelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dama gazelle (Nanger dama) on average weights 71.42 kg (157.46 lbs).
The Dama gazelle is from the family Bovidae (genus: Nanger). They can live for up to 17.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.46 meter (4′ 10″). Usually, Dama gazelles have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The dama gazelle, addra gazelle, or mhorr gazelle (Nanger dama, formerly Gazella dama) is a species of gazelle. It lives in Africa in the Sahara desert and the Sahel. This critically endangered species has disappeared from most of its former range due to overhunting and habitat loss, and natural populations only remain in Chad, Mali, and Niger. Its habitat includes grassland, shrubland, semi-deserts, open savanna and mountain plateaus. Its diet includes grasses, leaves (especially Acacia leaves), shoots, and fruit.In Niger, the dama gazelle has become a national symbol. Under the Hausa name meyna or ménas the dama gazelle appears on the badge of the Niger national football team, who are popularly called the Ménas.
Animals of the same family as a Dama gazelle
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Iberian ibex bringing 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs) to the scale
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest bringing 168 kilos (370.38 lbs) to the scale
- Giant eland bringing 644.51 kilos (1420.9 lbs) to the scale
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest bringing 168.7 kilos (371.92 lbs) to the scale
- Goa (antelope) bringing 23.13 kilos (50.99 lbs) to the scale
- Red hartebeest bringing 176.12 kilos (388.28 lbs) to the scale
- Blue wildebeest bringing 197.31 kilos (434.99 lbs) to the scale
- African buffalo bringing 592.83 kilos (1306.96 lbs) to the scale
- Weyns’s duiker with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Sharpe’s grysbok bringing 9.37 kilos (20.66 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Dama gazelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Nanger dama:
- Hirola with a weight of 78.6 kilos (173.28 lbs)
- Arabian oryx with a weight of 75.43 kilos (166.29 lbs)
- South Andean deer with a weight of 69.02 kilos (152.16 lbs)
- Spotted hyena with a weight of 63.69 kilos (140.41 lbs)
- Pantropical spotted dolphin with a weight of 65.72 kilos (144.89 lbs)
- West Caucasian tur with a weight of 60.73 kilos (133.89 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 75.99 kilos (167.53 lbs)
- Caspian seal with a weight of 62.33 kilos (137.41 lbs)
- Iberian ibex with a weight of 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs)
- Puku with a weight of 71.23 kilos (157.04 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Dama gazelle
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Dama gazelle:
- Taruca with a size of 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Sika deer with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Gemsbok with a size of 1.62 meter (5′ 4″)
- Brown hyena with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Sun bear with a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Pampas deer with a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Brown bear with a size of 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- Harp seal with a size of 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Capybara with a size of 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Dama gazelle
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Dama gazelle:
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Malayan tapir
- Maxwell’s duiker
- Pampas deer
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat
- Scimitar oryx
- Big-eared woolly bat
- Indian hare
- Black crested gibbon
- Yellow-winged bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Dama gazelle
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Dama gazelle:
- Southern reedbuck with an average maximal age of 16.75 years
- Impala with an average maximal age of 17.75 years
- Water chevrotain with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Yellow-backed duiker with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Yellow mongoose with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Ring-tailed cat with an average maximal age of 16.5 years
- Six-banded armadillo with an average maximal age of 18.75 years
- Common bent-wing bat with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Bongo (antelope) with an average maximal age of 19.42 years
- Kirk’s dik-dik with an average maximal age of 16.5 years