It is hard to guess what a Speke’s gazelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Speke’s gazelle (Gazella spekei) on average weights 20 kg (44.09 lbs).
The Speke’s gazelle is from the family Bovidae (genus: Gazella). It is usually born with about 1.25 kg (2.76 lbs). They can live for up to 12.67 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 88.5 cm (2′ 11″). Usually, Speke’s 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 Speke’s gazelle (Gazella spekei) is the smallest of the gazelle species. It is confined to the Horn of Africa, where it inhabits stony brush, grass steppes, and semideserts. This species has been sometimes regarded as a subspecies of the Dorcas gazelle, though this is now widely disregarded. Severe habitat fragmentation means it is now impossible to assess the natural migratory or nomadic patterns of G. spekei. Its numbers are under threat, and despite an increase in population, the IUCN in 2007 announced its status had changed from vulnerable to endangered. A captive population is maintained, and the wild population exists in the lower tens of thousands. As of 2008, this gazelle is classified as endangered under the IUCN Red List.Speke’s gazelle is named after John Hanning Speke, an English explorer of Central Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Speke’s gazelle
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Grant’s gazelle bringing 55 kilos (121.25 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain reedbuck bringing 29.2 kilos (64.37 lbs) to the scale
- Bohor reedbuck bringing 43.09 kilos (95 lbs) to the scale
- Günther’s dik-dik bringing 4.61 kilos (10.16 lbs) to the scale
- Saudi gazelle bringing 16 kilos (35.27 lbs) to the scale
- Markhor bringing 53.95 kilos (118.94 lbs) to the scale
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest bringing 168 kilos (370.38 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain gazelle bringing 21.25 kilos (46.85 lbs) to the scale
- Bighorn sheep bringing 74.63 kilos (164.53 lbs) to the scale
- Red gazelle bringing 40 kilos (88.18 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Speke’s gazelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gazella spekei:
- Red-necked wallaby with a weight of 16.83 kilos (37.1 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle with a weight of 22.6 kilos (49.82 lbs)
- Hairy-fronted muntjac with a weight of 18.45 kilos (40.68 lbs)
- Roe deer with a weight of 22.45 kilos (49.49 lbs)
- Gray brocket with a weight of 16.63 kilos (36.66 lbs)
- Maned wolf with a weight of 23.31 kilos (51.39 lbs)
- Fea’s muntjac with a weight of 19.9 kilos (43.87 lbs)
- Chacma baboon with a weight of 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs)
- Black wallaroo with a weight of 17 kilos (37.48 lbs)
- African clawless otter with a weight of 19.16 kilos (42.24 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Speke’s gazelle
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Speke’s gazelle:
- Collared peccary with a size of 88.6 cm (2′ 11″)
- Gray brocket with a size of 92.3 cm (3′ 1″)
- Malabar large-spotted civet with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Bay duiker with a size of 84.9 cm (2′ 10″)
- Caracal with a size of 74.1 cm (2′ 6″)
- Wolf with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Giant armadillo with a size of 87.4 cm (2′ 11″)
- Thomson’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Four-horned antelope with a size of 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a size of 84.6 cm (2′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Speke’s gazelle
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Speke’s gazelle:
- Canyon bat
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Lesser bamboo bat
- Goitered gazelle
- Sykes’ monkey
- Harp seal
- Alpine ibex
- Collared titi
- Masoala fork-marked lemur
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Speke’s gazelle
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Speke’s gazelle:
- Hirola with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Rock cavy with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Hog badger with an average maximal age of 13.92 years
- Pudú with an average maximal age of 12.5 years
- California myotis with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with an average maximal age of 10.5 years
- European hedgehog with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Crab-eating mongoose with an average maximal age of 13.33 years
- Desmarest’s hutia with an average maximal age of 11.33 years