How big does a Rhim gazelle get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Rhim gazelle (Gazella leptoceros) reaches an average size of 1.03 meter (3′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 14 years, they grow from 4.62 kg (10.19 lbs) to 24.47 kg (53.95 lbs). A Rhim gazelle has 1 babies at once. The Rhim 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 rhim gazelle or rhim (Gazella leptoceros), also known as the slender-horned gazelle, sand gazelle or Loder’s gazelle, is a pale-coated gazelle with long slender horns and well adapted to desert life. It is considered an endangered species because fewer than 2500 are left in the wild. These gazelles are found in Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya and Sudan.
Animals of the same family as a Rhim gazelle
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest bringing 168.7 kilos (371.92 lbs) to the scale
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Chinese goral with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Argali with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Common eland with a size of 2.66 meter (8′ 9″)
- Mountain gazelle with a size of 1.01 meter (3′ 4″)
- Red gazelle bringing 40 kilos (88.18 lbs) to the scale
- Japanese serow with 1 babies per litter
- Muskox with 1 babies per litter
- African buffalo with a size of 2.53 meter (8′ 4″)
Animals with the same size as a Rhim gazelle
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Rhim gazelle:
- Arabian tahr with a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 1 meter (3′ 4″)
- Indian muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Ethiopian wolf with a size of 94.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Clouded leopard with a size of 83.8 cm (2′ 9″)
- Serval with a size of 83.5 cm (2′ 9″)
- Saiga antelope with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a size of 84.6 cm (2′ 10″)
- Falkland Islands wolf with a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Mountain reedbuck with a size of 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Rhim gazelle
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Rhim gazelle:
- Red forest duiker
- Black and rufous elephant shrew
- Günther’s dik-dik
- Spotted-winged fruit bat
- Northern ghost bat
- Moose
- Striped bush squirrel
- Western white-eared giant rat
- Delicate mouse
- Intermediate long-fingered bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Rhim gazelle
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Rhim gazelle:
- Common noctule with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Greater false vampire bat with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Malayan civet with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Quokka with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Cape genet with an average maximal age of 15 years
- European polecat with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Banded mongoose with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Long-tailed goral with an average maximal age of 13.17 years
- Pallas’s squirrel with an average maximal age of 16.08 years
- Grant’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a Rhim gazelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gazella leptoceros:
- Common wallaroo with a weight of 25.99 kilos (57.3 lbs)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with a weight of 26.18 kilos (57.72 lbs)
- Red goral with a weight of 28.68 kilos (63.23 lbs)
- Goa (antelope) with a weight of 23.13 kilos (50.99 lbs)
- Mongolian gazelle with a weight of 28.22 kilos (62.21 lbs)
- Red wolf with a weight of 26.7 kilos (58.86 lbs)
- Fea’s muntjac with a weight of 19.9 kilos (43.87 lbs)
- Long-tailed goral with a weight of 27 kilos (59.52 lbs)
- Dwarf blue sheep with a weight of 29.27 kilos (64.53 lbs)
- Common wombat with a weight of 26 kilos (57.32 lbs)