What is the maximal age a Sumatran serow reaches?
An adult Sumatran serow (Capricornis sumatraensis) usually gets as old as 21 years.
Sumatran serows are around 231 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 4.1 kg (9.04 lbs) and measure 3.6 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Capricornis), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.45 meter (4′ 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.
The Sumatran serow (Capricornis sumatraensis), also known as the southern serow, is a species of goat-antelope native to mountain forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula and on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The former name of this species is “mainland serow”, as all the mainland species of serow (Chinese, red and Himalayan) were previously considered subspecies of this species. The Sumatran serow is threatened due to habitat loss and hunting, leading to it being evaluated as vulnerable by the IUCN.
Animals of the same family as a Sumatran serow
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Red-flanked duiker becoming 9.5 years old
- Mongolian gazelle becoming 7 years old
- Mountain nyala becoming 11 years old
- European bison becoming 27 years old
- Red gazelle growing to a mass of 40 kgs (88.18 lbs)
- Alpine ibex becoming 22.25 years old
- Red-fronted gazelle becoming 13.5 years old
- Maxwell’s duiker becoming 12.25 years old
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dorcas gazelle becoming 17.42 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Sumatran serow
With an average age of 21 years, Sumatran serow are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Brown hyena usually reaching 17 years
- American marten usually reaching 19 years
- Verreaux’s sifaka usually reaching 20.58 years
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat usually reaching 24.5 years
- Northern plains gray langur usually reaching 25 years
- Jentink’s duiker usually reaching 17.5 years
- Caracal usually reaching 17 years
- Kit fox usually reaching 20 years
- Dorcas gazelle usually reaching 17.42 years
- Japanese serow usually reaching 18.5 years
Animals with the same number of babies Sumatran serow
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Daubenton’s bat
- Variegated butterfly bat
- Western tree hyrax
- Cape serotine
- Bongo (antelope)
- Black-headed spider monkey
- Banana pipistrelle
- Subantarctic fur seal
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo
- Ryukyu flying fox
Weighting as much as Sumatran serow
A fully grown Sumatran serow reaches around 110.94 kg (244.58 lbs). So do these animals:
- Northern right whale dolphin weighting 113 kilos (249.12 lbs) on average
- Barbary sheep weighting 93.7 kilos (206.57 lbs) on average
- Asian black bear weighting 99.81 kilos (220.04 lbs) on average
- Schomburgk’s deer weighting 107.63 kilos (237.28 lbs) on average
- Marsh deer weighting 111.76 kilos (246.39 lbs) on average
- Spectacled bear weighting 123.09 kilos (271.37 lbs) on average
- Baiji weighting 112.07 kilos (247.07 lbs) on average
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis weighting 110 kilos (242.51 lbs) on average
- Rough-toothed dolphin weighting 130 kilos (286.6 lbs) on average
- Dall’s porpoise weighting 106.03 kilos (233.76 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Sumatran serow
Those animals grow as big as a Sumatran serow:
- Taruca with 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Javan rusa with 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- South American fur seal with 1.65 meter (5′ 6″)
- Takin with 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Siberian roe deer with 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Sun bear with 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Blackbuck with 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Mule deer with 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Harbor seal with 1.61 meter (5′ 4″)
- Calamian deer with 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)