How many baby Nilgiri tahrs are in a litter?
A Nilgiri tahr (Hemitragus hylocrius) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 186 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 125 grams (0.28 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Hemitragus). An adult Nilgiri tahr grows up to a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius) is an ungulate that is endemic to the Nilgiri Hills and the southern portion of the Western & Eastern Ghats in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in Southern India. It is the state animal of Tamil Nadu. Despite its local name, it is more closely related to the sheep of the genus Ovis than the ibex and wild goats of the genus Capra.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Nilgiri tahr is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Bay duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sharpe’s grysbok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red gazelle weighting around 40 kilograms (88.18 lbs)
- Black-fronted duiker becoming 19.67 years old
- Steenbok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hirola with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chamois with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Günther’s dik-dik with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grey rhebok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest weighting around 168.7 kilograms (371.92 lbs)
Animals that share a litter size with Nilgiri tahr
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Kob
- Red-tailed sportive lemur
- Greater dog-like bat
- Pond bat
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat
- Insular single leaf bat
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Ocelot
- Pygmy slow loris
- Pygmy hippopotamus
Animals that get as old as a Nilgiri tahr
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17.25 years:
- Tayra with 18 years
- Hector’s dolphin with 20 years
- Common bent-wing bat with 14 years
- Desert warthog with 18.75 years
- Water chevrotain with 14 years
- Asian golden cat with 18 years
- Big brown bat with 20 years
- Brown hyena with 17 years
- Indian muntjac with 17.58 years
- Red-rumped agouti with 17.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Nilgiri tahr
What other animals weight around 73.94 kg (163.02 lbs)?
- Javan rusa usually reaching 65.8 kgs (145.06 lbs)
- Javan rusa usually reaching 66.38 kgs (146.34 lbs)
- Pantropical spotted dolphin usually reaching 65.72 kgs (144.89 lbs)
- Nile lechwe usually reaching 85.5 kgs (188.5 lbs)
- Yellow-backed duiker usually reaching 61.65 kgs (135.91 lbs)
- Bighorn sheep usually reaching 74.63 kgs (164.53 lbs)
- South American fur seal usually reaching 68.14 kgs (150.22 lbs)
- Mule deer usually reaching 84.31 kgs (185.87 lbs)
- Mountain goat usually reaching 71.84 kgs (158.38 lbs)
- Harbor seal usually reaching 87.31 kgs (192.49 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Nilgiri tahr
Also reaching around 1.39 meter (4′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Siberian roe deer gets as big as 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Cheetah gets as big as 1.48 meter (4′ 11″)
- Brown bear gets as big as 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- Hirola gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Leopard gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Ribbon seal gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Caspian seal gets as big as 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Grant’s gazelle gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Hirola gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Capybara gets as big as 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)