How many baby Arabian tahrs are in a litter?
A Arabian tahr (Hemitragus jayakari) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 164 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 Arabian tahr grows up to a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 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 Arabian tahr (Arabitragus jayakari) is a species of tahr native to eastern Arabia. Until recently, it was placed in the genus Hemitragus, but genetic evidence supports its removal to a separate monotypic genus.The Arabian tahr is the smallest species of tahr. The animal is of stocky build with backward-arching horns in both sexes. Males are much more robust than females. Their coats consist of a long, reddish-brown hair, with a dark stripe running down the back. Males possess the most impressive manes which extend right down the back and grow longer, based on the age. In the oldest males the muzzle darkens to black and the eye stripes also darken. As with most mountain goats and sheep, they have rubber-like hooves to provide balance and traction on the steep, rocky slopes.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Arabian tahr is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- American bison with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Banteng with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nyala with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Four-horned antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Muskox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Anoa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Impala with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinkara weighting around 18.91 kilograms (41.69 lbs)
- Kob with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Addax with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Arabian tahr
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- South Andean deer
- Common wallaroo
- Whiptail wallaby
- Red slender loris
- Goeldi’s marmoset
- Red-faced spider monkey
- Fulvus roundleaf bat
- Fin whale
- Common duiker
- Long-finned pilot whale
Animals that get as old as a Arabian tahr
Other animals that usually reach the age of 14 years:
- Lowland paca with 16 years
- Sable with 15 years
- Common duiker with 14.25 years
- Black-footed ferret with 12 years
- Speke’s gazelle with 12.67 years
- European hare with 12 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- Markhor with 14 years
- Agile wallaby with 12 years
- American red squirrel with 12 years
Animals with the same weight as a Arabian tahr
What other animals weight around 22.06 kg (48.62 lbs)?
- African clawless otter usually reaching 19.16 kgs (42.24 lbs)
- Roe deer usually reaching 22.45 kgs (49.49 lbs)
- Bay duiker usually reaching 20 kgs (44.09 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle usually reaching 22.6 kgs (49.82 lbs)
- Lesser capybara usually reaching 21.27 kgs (46.89 lbs)
- Ogilby’s duiker usually reaching 18.29 kgs (40.32 lbs)
- Tufted deer usually reaching 23.04 kgs (50.79 lbs)
- Cameroon clawless otter usually reaching 21.6 kgs (47.62 lbs)
- African wild dog usually reaching 22 kgs (48.5 lbs)
- Mountain gazelle usually reaching 21.25 kgs (46.85 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Arabian tahr
Also reaching around 1.08 meter (3′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Philippine deer gets as big as 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Dhole gets as big as 98.8 cm (3′ 3″)
- Red goral gets as big as 1.04 meter (3′ 5″)
- Ogilby’s duiker gets as big as 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Sika deer gets as big as 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle gets as big as 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Thomson’s gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Bornean yellow muntjac gets as big as 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Roan antelope gets as big as 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Red-fronted gazelle gets as big as 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)