How big does a Speke’s gazelle get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Speke’s gazelle (Gazella spekei) reaches an average size of 88.5 cm (2′ 11″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 12.67 years, they grow from 1.25 kg (2.76 lbs) to 20 kg (44.09 lbs). A Speke’s gazelle has 1 babies at once. The Speke’s 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 Speke’s gazelle (Gazella spekei) is the smallest of the gazelle species. It is confined to the Horn of Africa, where it inhabits stony brush, grass steppes, and semideserts. This species has been sometimes regarded as a subspecies of the Dorcas gazelle, though this is now widely disregarded. Severe habitat fragmentation means it is now impossible to assess the natural migratory or nomadic patterns of G. spekei. Its numbers are under threat, and despite an increase in population, the IUCN in 2007 announced its status had changed from vulnerable to endangered. A captive population is maintained, and the wild population exists in the lower tens of thousands. As of 2008, this gazelle is classified as endangered under the IUCN Red List.Speke’s gazelle is named after John Hanning Speke, an English explorer of Central Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Speke’s gazelle
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Barbary sheep with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Alpine ibex with 1 babies per litter
- Hartebeest with a size of 1.98 meter (6′ 6″)
- Himalayan tahr with 1 babies per litter
- Lechwe with 1 babies per litter
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Gerenuk with a size of 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest with 1 babies per litter
- Banteng with a size of 2.08 meter (6′ 10″)
- Saudi gazelle bringing 16 kilos (35.27 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Speke’s gazelle
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Speke’s gazelle:
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 85.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Dwarf musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Mountain gazelle with a size of 1.01 meter (3′ 4″)
- North American beaver with a size of 75.7 cm (2′ 6″)
- Dhole with a size of 98.8 cm (3′ 3″)
- Springbok with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Water chevrotain with a size of 75 cm (2′ 6″)
- Mandrill with a size of 75.8 cm (2′ 6″)
- Common wombat with a size of 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Speke’s gazelle
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Speke’s gazelle:
- Black-bearded tomb bat
- Bay duiker
- Western red colobus
- Harbor seal
- White-tailed deer
- Insular flying fox
- Puna mouse
- Gilbert’s potoroo
- Dusky elephant shrew
- Banteng
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Speke’s gazelle
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Speke’s gazelle:
- Crab-eating fox with an average maximal age of 11.5 years
- Greater bamboo lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Common brushtail possum with an average maximal age of 14.67 years
- Harbour porpoise with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Greater dwarf lemur with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Capybara with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Common bent-wing bat with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Santarem marmoset with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Side-striped jackal with an average maximal age of 11.42 years
- Leadbeater’s possum with an average maximal age of 11 years
Animals with the same weight as a Speke’s gazelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gazella spekei:
- Gongshan muntjac with a weight of 18.45 kilos (40.68 lbs)
- Indian muntjac with a weight of 17.51 kilos (38.6 lbs)
- Mérida brocket with a weight of 16.5 kilos (36.38 lbs)
- Fea’s muntjac with a weight of 19.9 kilos (43.87 lbs)
- Black duiker with a weight of 19 kilos (41.89 lbs)
- Peters’s duiker with a weight of 18.94 kilos (41.76 lbs)
- Little red brocket with a weight of 21.05 kilos (46.41 lbs)
- Mountain gazelle with a weight of 21.25 kilos (46.85 lbs)
- Bornean yellow muntjac with a weight of 18.87 kilos (41.6 lbs)
- Dwarf brocket with a weight of 16.04 kilos (35.36 lbs)