What is the maximal age a Gemsbok reaches?
An adult Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) usually gets as old as 20 years.
Gemsboks are around 273 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 12.07 kg (26.61 lbs) and measure 2.37 meter (7′ 10″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Oryx), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.62 meter (5′ 4″).
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 gemsbok, gemsbuck or South African oryx (Oryx gazella) is a large antelope in the genus Oryx. It is native to the arid regions of Southern Africa, such as the Kalahari Desert. Some authorities formerly included the East African oryx as a subspecies.The gemsbok is depicted on the coat of arms of Namibia, where the current population of the species is estimated at 373,000 individuals.
Animals of the same family as a Gemsbok
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Red-fronted gazelle becoming 13.5 years old
- Arabian oryx becoming 20 years old
- Soemmerring’s gazelle becoming 15.5 years old
- Beira (antelope) becoming 14 years old
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hartebeest becoming 20 years old
- Kouprey growing to a mass of 788.66 kgs (1738.7 lbs)
- Arabian tahr becoming 14 years old
- African buffalo becoming 29.5 years old
- Grant’s gazelle becoming 12.67 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Gemsbok
With an average age of 20 years, Gemsbok are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Japanese serow usually reaching 18.5 years
- Chital usually reaching 20.75 years
- Pallas’s squirrel usually reaching 16.08 years
- Black-fronted duiker usually reaching 19.67 years
- Arabian oryx usually reaching 20 years
- Beech marten usually reaching 18.08 years
- Allen’s swamp monkey usually reaching 23 years
- Ring-tailed cat usually reaching 16.5 years
- Barbary macaque usually reaching 22 years
- Bighorn sheep usually reaching 24 years
Animals with the same number of babies Gemsbok
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Chacoan mara
- Ground cuscus
- Dwarf hutia
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby
- Brown dorcopsis
- Lesser long-fingered bat
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew
- Brown woolly monkey
- Little yellow bat
- Eastern hare-wallaby
Weighting as much as Gemsbok
A fully grown Gemsbok reaches around 187.6 kg (413.59 lbs). So do these animals:
- Thorold’s deer weighting 161.68 kilos (356.44 lbs) on average
- South American sea lion weighting 193.67 kilos (426.97 lbs) on average
- Melon-headed whale weighting 206 kilos (454.15 lbs) on average
- Nilgai weighting 181.63 kilos (400.43 lbs) on average
- Brown bear weighting 196.14 kilos (432.41 lbs) on average
- Sambar deer weighting 177.52 kilos (391.36 lbs) on average
- Hartebeest weighting 162.47 kilos (358.18 lbs) on average
- Philippine warty pig weighting 189.4 kilos (417.56 lbs) on average
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin weighting 186.76 kilos (411.73 lbs) on average
- Thorold’s deer weighting 161 kilos (354.94 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Gemsbok
Those animals grow as big as a Gemsbok:
- Spotted seal with 1.64 meter (5′ 5″)
- Pronghorn with 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Dibatag with 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Tiger with 1.83 meter (6′ 0″)
- Nilgiri tahr with 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Cheetah with 1.48 meter (4′ 11″)
- Caspian seal with 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Kob with 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Sloth bear with 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Jaguar with 1.33 meter (4′ 5″)