How many baby Argalis are in a litter?
A Argali (Ovis ammon) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 165 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3.23 kg (7.12 lbs) and measure 6.9 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Ovis). An adult Argali grows up to a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″).
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 argali, or the mountain sheep (species Ovis ammon) is a wild sheep that roams the highlands of western East Asia and neighboring regions (Himalaya, Tibet, Altay).
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Argali is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Kob with 1 babies per pregnancy
- West Caucasian tur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Anoa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common eland with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Chinese goral becoming 17.25 years old
- Water buffalo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kirk’s dik-dik with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Urial with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Speke’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mongolian gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Argali
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Long-footed treeshrew
- Melck’s house bat
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle
- Black crested gibbon
- Tricolored bat
- Parti-coloured bat
- Long-winged tomb bat
- Royal antelope
- Striped bush squirrel
- Patagonian mara
Animals that get as old as a Argali
Other animals that usually reach the age of 15 years:
- Llama with 14.17 years
- Long-tailed goral with 13.17 years
- Coypu with 12 years
- Black-striped wallaby with 15 years
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with 16 years
- Pronghorn with 12 years
- Alpine marmot with 18 years
- Yellow-backed duiker with 17.25 years
- Meerkat with 12.5 years
- Sable with 15 years
Animals with the same weight as a Argali
What other animals weight around 113.67 kg (250.59 lbs)?
- Juan Fernández fur seal usually reaching 95 kgs (209.44 lbs)
- Siberian ibex usually reaching 130 kgs (286.6 lbs)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis usually reaching 110 kgs (242.51 lbs)
- Northern right whale dolphin usually reaching 113 kgs (249.12 lbs)
- Atlantic spotted dolphin usually reaching 110 kgs (242.51 lbs)
- Reindeer usually reaching 108.73 kgs (239.71 lbs)
- Sloth bear usually reaching 99.45 kgs (219.25 lbs)
- Addax usually reaching 95.39 kgs (210.3 lbs)
- Guanaco usually reaching 95.5 kgs (210.54 lbs)
- Marsh deer usually reaching 111.76 kgs (246.39 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Argali
Also reaching around 1.59 meter (5′ 3″) in size do these animals:
- White-tailed deer gets as big as 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Juan Fernández fur seal gets as big as 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Galápagos fur seal gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Gerenuk gets as big as 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- South American fur seal gets as big as 1.65 meter (5′ 6″)
- Anoa gets as big as 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Bharal gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Subantarctic fur seal gets as big as 1.63 meter (5′ 4″)
- Sloth bear gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Pronghorn gets as big as 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)