What is the maximal age a Bontebok reaches?
An adult Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus) usually gets as old as 21.67 years.
Bonteboks are around 240 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 6.87 kg (15.15 lbs) and measure 62.1 cm (2′ 1″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Damaliscus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus) is an antelope found in South Africa, Lesotho and Namibia. The bontebok has two subspecies; the bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus pygargus), occurring naturally in the Fynbos and Renosterveld areas of the Western Cape, and the blesbok (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi) occurring in the highveld.The bontebok is related to the common tsessebe.
Animals of the same family as a Bontebok
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Soemmerring’s gazelle becoming 15.5 years old
- Peters’s duiker growing to a mass of 18.94 kgs (41.76 lbs)
- Suni becoming 14 years old
- Aders’s duiker becoming 4 years old
- Speke’s gazelle becoming 12.67 years old
- Hirola becoming 15.17 years old
- Gerenuk becoming 13 years old
- Scimitar oryx becoming 20.42 years old
- Addax becoming 25.67 years old
- Saiga antelope becoming 12 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Bontebok
With an average age of 21.67 years, Bontebok are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Venezuelan red howler usually reaching 25 years
- Klipspringer usually reaching 17.75 years
- Bechstein’s bat usually reaching 21 years
- Bharal usually reaching 24 years
- Koala usually reaching 20 years
- Commerson’s dolphin usually reaching 18 years
- Western grey kangaroo usually reaching 20 years
- Bohor reedbuck usually reaching 18 years
- Margay usually reaching 20 years
- Mantled howler usually reaching 25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Bontebok
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Javan rusa
- Diana monkey
- Dassie rat
- Fraternal myotis
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Fea’s muntjac
- Evening bat
- Northeast African mole-rat
- Indian muntjac
- Black-rumped agouti
Weighting as much as Bontebok
A fully grown Bontebok reaches around 77.24 kg (170.29 lbs). So do these animals:
- White-tailed deer weighting 75.6 kilos (166.67 lbs) on average
- Harbor seal weighting 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs) on average
- Lechwe weighting 88.02 kilos (194.05 lbs) on average
- Spotted hyena weighting 63.69 kilos (140.41 lbs) on average
- Jaguar weighting 84.26 kilos (185.76 lbs) on average
- Dama gazelle weighting 70.4 kilos (155.21 lbs) on average
- Bighorn sheep weighting 74.63 kilos (164.53 lbs) on average
- Alpaca weighting 64.9 kilos (143.08 lbs) on average
- Kob weighting 79.77 kilos (175.86 lbs) on average
- Javan rusa weighting 66.38 kilos (146.34 lbs) on average