What is the maximal age a Mountain gazelle reaches?
An adult Mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) usually gets as old as 18.25 years.
Mountain gazelles are around 180 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 2.13 kg (4.69 lbs) and measure 49.9 cm (1′ 8″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Gazella), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.01 meter (3′ 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 mountain gazelle or the Palestine mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella) is a species of gazelle widely but unevenly distributed.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain gazelle
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Muskox becoming 24 years old
- Red gazelle growing to a mass of 40 kgs (88.18 lbs)
- Mongolian gazelle becoming 7 years old
- Bohor reedbuck becoming 18 years old
- Rhim gazelle becoming 14 years old
- Nilgiri tahr becoming 17.25 years old
- Salt’s dik-dik becoming 14 years old
- Markhor becoming 14 years old
- Jentink’s duiker becoming 17.5 years old
- Kob becoming 21.92 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Mountain gazelle
With an average age of 18.25 years, Mountain gazelle are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Geoffroy’s bat usually reaching 18 years
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby usually reaching 15 years
- Clouded leopard usually reaching 17 years
- Greater glider usually reaching 15 years
- Indian hog deer usually reaching 20 years
- Bechstein’s bat usually reaching 21 years
- Nubian ibex usually reaching 17 years
- Northern greater galago usually reaching 17 years
- Fossa (animal) usually reaching 20 years
- Red hartebeest usually reaching 15.25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Mountain gazelle
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Cantor’s roundleaf bat
- White-throated guenon
- Thumbless bat
- Greater mouse-eared bat
- Cuvier’s beaked whale
- Bearded seal
- Red-necked wallaby
- Hoffmanns’s titi
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat
- Moose
Weighting as much as Mountain gazelle
A fully grown Mountain gazelle reaches around 21.25 kg (46.85 lbs). So do these animals:
- Lesser capybara weighting 21.27 kilos (46.89 lbs) on average
- Cameroon clawless otter weighting 21.6 kilos (47.62 lbs) on average
- Guinea baboon weighting 18.03 kilos (39.75 lbs) on average
- Maned wolf weighting 23.31 kilos (51.39 lbs) on average
- African wild dog weighting 22 kilos (48.5 lbs) on average
- Oribi weighting 17.16 kilos (37.83 lbs) on average
- Red brocket weighting 20.42 kilos (45.02 lbs) on average
- Bornean yellow muntjac weighting 18.87 kilos (41.6 lbs) on average
- Ogilby’s duiker weighting 18.29 kilos (40.32 lbs) on average
- Olive baboon weighting 17.73 kilos (39.09 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Mountain gazelle
Those animals grow as big as a Mountain gazelle:
- Dorcas gazelle with 96.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Brown hyena with 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Red goral with 1.04 meter (3′ 5″)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with 85.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Eastern grey kangaroo with 87.7 cm (2′ 11″)
- Saiga antelope with 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Giant otter with 1.14 meter (3′ 9″)
- Roan antelope with 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Asian golden cat with 89 cm (3′ 0″)
- Speke’s gazelle with 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)