What is the maximal age a Red-fronted gazelle reaches?
An adult Red-fronted gazelle (Gazella rufifrons) usually gets as old as 13.5 years.
Red-fronted gazelles are around 174 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 4.62 kg (10.19 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 88.5 cm (2′ 11″).
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 red-fronted gazelle (Eudorcas rufifrons) is widely but unevenly distributed gazelle across the middle of Africa from Senegal to northeastern Ethiopia. It is mainly resident in the Sahel zone, a narrow cross-Africa band south of the Sahara, where it prefers arid grasslands, wooded savannas and shrubby steppes.One authority considers Thomson’s gazelle (E. thomsoni), of East Africa, a subspecies of red-fronted gazelle. The red-fronted gazelle was formerly considered a member of the genus Gazella within the subgenus Eudorcas before Eudorcas was elevated to generic status.
Animals of the same family as a Red-fronted gazelle
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Dwarf blue sheep growing to a mass of 29.27 kgs (64.53 lbs)
- American bison becoming 33 years old
- Przewalski’s gazelle growing to a mass of 27.5 kgs (60.63 lbs)
- Giant eland becoming 16.17 years old
- Ruwenzori duiker growing to a mass of 15 kgs (33.07 lbs)
- Himalayan goral becoming 17.58 years old
- Mongolian gazelle becoming 7 years old
- Addax becoming 25.67 years old
- Anoa becoming 36 years old
- Snow sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Red-fronted gazelle
With an average age of 13.5 years, Red-fronted gazelle are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Java mouse-deer usually reaching 12 years
- Blue duiker usually reaching 12 years
- Arctocephalus forsteri usually reaching 15 years
- Bates’s pygmy antelope usually reaching 14 years
- Sable usually reaching 15 years
- Black-footed mongoose usually reaching 15.83 years
- Common dwarf mongoose usually reaching 10.92 years
- Suni usually reaching 14 years
- Horsfield’s tarsier usually reaching 12 years
- Southern tree hyrax usually reaching 12.25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Red-fronted gazelle
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Kerivoula hardwickei
- Black flying squirrel
- Verreaux’s sifaka
- Granada hare
- Aders’s duiker
- Maroon leaf monkey
- Mountain cuscus
- Shining thicket rat
- Cape horseshoe bat
- Okapi
Weighting as much as Red-fronted gazelle
A fully grown Red-fronted gazelle reaches around 27 kg (59.52 lbs). So do these animals:
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat weighting 31.88 kilos (70.28 lbs) on average
- Common wombat weighting 26 kilos (57.32 lbs) on average
- Arabian tahr weighting 22.06 kilos (48.63 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
- Thomson’s gazelle weighting 22.91 kilos (50.51 lbs) on average
- Cameroon clawless otter weighting 21.6 kilos (47.62 lbs) on average
- Red-fronted gazelle weighting 27 kilos (59.52 lbs) on average
- Thylacine weighting 30 kilos (66.14 lbs) on average
- Giant otter weighting 26 kilos (57.32 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Red-fronted gazelle
Those animals grow as big as a Red-fronted gazelle:
- Goa (antelope) with 98 cm (3′ 3″)
- Mandrill with 75.8 cm (2′ 6″)
- Black-fronted duiker with 94.4 cm (3′ 2″)
- Dorcas gazelle with 96.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Dhole with 98.8 cm (3′ 3″)
- Cameroon clawless otter with 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Fossa (animal) with 72.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Red goral with 1.04 meter (3′ 5″)
- Siamang with 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Malabar large-spotted civet with 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)