How many baby Barbary sheeps are in a litter?
A Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 156 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs) and measure 4.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Ammotragus). An adult Barbary sheep grows up to a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″).
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 Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia) arrui or aoudad is a species of caprid native to rocky mountains in North Africa. Six subspecies have been described. Although it is rare in its native North Africa, it has been introduced to North America, southern Europe, and elsewhere. It is also known in the Berber language as awdad, waddan, arwi, and arrwis.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Barbary sheep is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Nubian ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Takin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-fronted gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Goat with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Klipspringer with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Thomson’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-flanked duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-backed duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Argali with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dama gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Barbary sheep
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Stephen’s woodrat
- African buffalo
- Sambar deer
- Bawean deer
- Muskox
- Black bearded saki
- European bison
- Sable antelope
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse
- Sun-tailed monkey
Animals that get as old as a Barbary sheep
Other animals that usually reach the age of 21 years:
- Impala with 17.75 years
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo with 21 years
- Cougar with 20 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with 21.17 years
- Marsh mongoose with 17.42 years
- Bontebok with 21.67 years
- Bechstein’s bat with 21 years
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with 17.08 years
- Eastern grey kangaroo with 24 years
- Madagascan fruit bat with 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Barbary sheep
What other animals weight around 93.7 kg (206.58 lbs)?
- Dall’s porpoise usually reaching 106.03 kgs (233.76 lbs)
- Harbor seal usually reaching 87.31 kgs (192.49 lbs)
- Reindeer usually reaching 108.73 kgs (239.71 lbs)
- Atlantic spotted dolphin usually reaching 110 kgs (242.51 lbs)
- Baikal seal usually reaching 89.5 kgs (197.31 lbs)
- Nile lechwe usually reaching 85.5 kgs (188.5 lbs)
- Snow sheep usually reaching 90 kgs (198.42 lbs)
- Spotted seal usually reaching 99.02 kgs (218.3 lbs)
- Subantarctic fur seal usually reaching 92.21 kgs (203.29 lbs)
- Arctocephalus forsteri usually reaching 101.13 kgs (222.95 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Barbary sheep
Also reaching around 1.45 meter (4′ 10″) in size do these animals:
- Dama gazelle gets as big as 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Jentink’s duiker gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Oribi gets as big as 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Caspian seal gets as big as 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Sitatunga gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Leopard gets as big as 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Hirola gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Galápagos fur seal gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Llama gets as big as 1.66 meter (5′ 6″)
- Mountain goat gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)