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How old does a Saiga antelope get? (age expectancy)

What is the maximal age a Saiga antelope reaches?

An adult Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) usually gets as old as 12 years.

Saiga antelopes are around 148 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 3.33 kg (7.34 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Saiga), their offspring is 2 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″).

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.

A Saiga antelope gets as old as 12 years

The saiga antelope (, Saiga tatarica) is a critically endangered antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast. During the Pleistocene, they also occurred in Beringian North America and the British Isles. Today, the dominant subspecies (S. t. tatarica) is only found in one region in Russia (in the Republic of Kalmykia and Astrakhan Oblast) and three areas in Kazakhstan (the Ural, Ustiurt, and Betpak-Dala populations). A portion of the Ustiurt population migrates south to Uzbekistan and occasionally Turkmenistan in winter. It is extinct in China and southwestern Mongolia. It was hunted extensively in Romania and Moldova until it became extinct in those regions at the end of the 18th century. The Mongolian subspecies (S. t. mongolica) is found only in western Mongolia.

Animals of the same family as a Saiga antelope

Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):

Animals that reach the same age as Saiga antelope

With an average age of 12 years, Saiga antelope are in good companionship of the following animals:

Animals with the same number of babies Saiga antelope

The same number of babies at once (2) are born by:

Weighting as much as Saiga antelope

A fully grown Saiga antelope reaches around 37.57 kg (82.82 lbs). So do these animals:

Animals as big as a Saiga antelope

Those animals grow as big as a Saiga antelope: