How many baby Chamoiss are in a litter?
A Chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 178 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2.25 kg (4.96 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Rupicapra). An adult Chamois grows up to a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″).
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 chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) is a species of goat-antelope native to mountains in Europe, from west to east, including the Cantabrian mountains, the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Apennines, the Dinarides, the Tatra and the Carpathian Mountains, the Balkan Mountains, the Rila – Rhodope massif, Pindus, the northeastern mountains of Turkey, and the Caucasus. The chamois has also been introduced to the South Island of New Zealand. Some subspecies of chamois are strictly protected in the EU under the European Habitats Directive.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Chamois is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Cape grysbok becoming 14 years old
- Sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-fronted duiker becoming 19.67 years old
- Tibetan antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dorcas gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Urial with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Puku with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cattle becoming 20 years old
- Himalayan goral with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Himalayan tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Chamois
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- François’ langur
- Mexican long-tongued bat
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat
- Barasingha
- Long-tailed fruit bat
- Sika deer
- Hispid pocket gopher
- Common wombat
- Canyon bat
- Sumatran rhinoceros
Animals that get as old as a Chamois
Other animals that usually reach the age of 22 years:
- North American porcupine with 18 years
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey with 19 years
- Risso’s dolphin with 20 years
- Common eland with 24.33 years
- Hartebeest with 20 years
- Golden-backed uakari with 18 years
- Red-bellied titi with 25.25 years
- Greater kudu with 23 years
- Proboscis monkey with 21 years
- Beech marten with 18.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Chamois
What other animals weight around 33.11 kg (73 lbs)?
- Himalayan goral usually reaching 28.75 kgs (63.38 lbs)
- Red kangaroo usually reaching 38.98 kgs (85.94 lbs)
- Gerenuk usually reaching 38.65 kgs (85.21 lbs)
- Giant muntjac usually reaching 36.69 kgs (80.89 lbs)
- Calamian deer usually reaching 39.66 kgs (87.44 lbs)
- Wolf usually reaching 33.38 kgs (73.59 lbs)
- Giant pangolin usually reaching 33 kgs (72.75 lbs)
- Blackbuck usually reaching 36.1 kgs (79.59 lbs)
- Antilopine kangaroo usually reaching 27.28 kgs (60.14 lbs)
- Eastern grey kangaroo usually reaching 33.51 kgs (73.88 lbs)