It is hard to guess what a Dama gazelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dama gazelle (Gazella dama) on average weights 70.4 kg (155.21 lbs).
The Dama gazelle is from the family Bovidae (genus: Gazella). 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:
- Royal antelope bringing 3.9 kilos (8.6 lbs) to the scale
- Roan antelope bringing 262.09 kilos (577.81 lbs) to the scale
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest bringing 168 kilos (370.38 lbs) to the scale
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest bringing 168.7 kilos (371.92 lbs) to the scale
- Goitered gazelle bringing 26.84 kilos (59.17 lbs) to the scale
- Urial bringing 51.8 kilos (114.2 lbs) to the scale
- Klipspringer bringing 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs) to the scale
- Black duiker bringing 19 kilos (41.89 lbs) to the scale
- Peters’s duiker bringing 18.94 kilos (41.76 lbs) to the scale
- Grant’s gazelle bringing 55.46 kilos (122.27 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 Gazella dama:
- Australophocaena dioptrica with a weight of 65 kilos (143.3 lbs)
- Bushpig with a weight of 68.91 kilos (151.92 lbs)
- Yellow-backed duiker with a weight of 61.65 kilos (135.91 lbs)
- Jentink’s duiker with a weight of 68 kilos (149.91 lbs)
- Sun bear with a weight of 57.04 kilos (125.75 lbs)
- Bontebok with a weight of 77.24 kilos (170.28 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 65.8 kilos (145.06 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 75.99 kilos (167.53 lbs)
- Dall sheep with a weight of 70 kilos (154.32 lbs)
- Taruca with a weight of 68.6 kilos (151.24 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:
- Giant panda with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Puku with a size of 1.34 meter (4′ 5″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Capybara with a size of 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)
- Jaguar with a size of 1.33 meter (4′ 5″)
- Marsh deer with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Vaquita with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- American black bear with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Harp seal with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
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:
- Shining thicket rat
- Diademed sifaka
- Black-tailed hutia
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin
- Biak glider
- Argentine brown bat
- Thomas’s sac-winged bat
- Maxwell’s duiker
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Dama gazelle
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Dama gazelle:
- Smooth-coated otter with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Egyptian mongoose with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Northern elephant seal with an average maximal age of 20.25 years
- European hedgehog with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Günther’s dik-dik with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Golden jackal with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Arctocephalus forsteri with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Black-mantled tamarin with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with an average maximal age of 19 years