How big does a Red-fronted gazelle get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Red-fronted gazelle (Gazella rufifrons) reaches an average size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 13.5 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 27 kg (59.52 lbs). A Red-fronted gazelle has 1 babies at once. The Red-fronted gazelle (genus: Gazella) is a member of the family Bovidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
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
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Blackbuck with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Dwarf blue sheep bringing 29.27 kilos (64.53 lbs) to the scale
- Aders’s duiker with a size of 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Himalayan tahr with 1 babies per litter
- Bontebok with 1 babies per litter
- Saola with a size of 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Ruwenzori duiker bringing 15 kilos (33.07 lbs) to the scale
- Southern reedbuck with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Kirk’s dik-dik with a size of 65.5 cm (2′ 2″)
- Barbary sheep with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
Animals with the same size as a Red-fronted gazelle
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red-fronted gazelle:
- Goitered gazelle with a size of 95.8 cm (3′ 2″)
- Ogilby’s duiker with a size of 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Large Indian civet with a size of 81.9 cm (2′ 9″)
- Cameroon clawless otter with a size of 83.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Thomson’s gazelle with a size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Dorcas gazelle with a size of 96.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Alpine musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Wolverine with a size of 77.3 cm (2′ 7″)
- Short-eared dog with a size of 83.3 cm (2′ 9″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red-fronted gazelle
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Red-fronted gazelle:
- Moose
- Mount Cameroon forest shrew
- Roan antelope
- Long-legged bat
- Guinea baboon
- Black rhinoceros
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
- Black-crested Sumatran langur
- Urial
- Greater dog-like bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Red-fronted gazelle
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Red-fronted gazelle:
- Pampas fox with an average maximal age of 13.67 years
- Thomson’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- European hare with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Brown palm civet with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Tricolored bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Side-striped jackal with an average maximal age of 11.42 years
- Black-striped wallaby with an average maximal age of 15 years
- L’Hoest’s monkey with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Mountain pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with an average maximal age of 16 years
Animals with the same weight as a Red-fronted gazelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gazella rufifrons:
- Sea otter with a weight of 27.46 kilos (60.54 lbs)
- Arabian tahr with a weight of 22.06 kilos (48.63 lbs)
- Przewalski’s gazelle with a weight of 27.5 kilos (60.63 lbs)
- White-lipped peccary with a weight of 31.6 kilos (69.67 lbs)
- Pyrenean chamois with a weight of 30 kilos (66.14 lbs)
- Grey rhebok with a weight of 22.62 kilos (49.87 lbs)
- Maned wolf with a weight of 23.31 kilos (51.39 lbs)
- Goa (antelope) with a weight of 23.13 kilos (50.99 lbs)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with a weight of 31.88 kilos (70.28 lbs)
- Roe deer with a weight of 22.45 kilos (49.49 lbs)