How many baby Bharals are in a litter?
A Bharal (Pseudois nayaur) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 159 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 168 grams (0.37 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Pseudois). An adult Bharal grows up to a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″).
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 bharal (Pseudois nayaur), also called the Helan Shan blue sheep, Chinese blue sheep, Himalayan blue sheep or naur, is a caprid found in Bhutan, Gansu, the high Himalayas of India, Inner Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Ningxia, Pakistan, Sichuan and Tibet. The Helan Mountains of Ningxia has the highest concentration of bharal in the world, with 15 bharals per square kilometer and 30,000 in total. Its native names include yanyang (岩羊) in Mandarin, bharal, barhal, bharar and bharut in Hindi, na or sna in Tibetan and Ladakh, nabo in Spitian, naur in Nepali and na or gnao in Bhutan.The bharal was also the focus of George Schaller’s and Peter Matthiessen’s expedition to Nepal in 1973. Their personal experiences are well documented by Matthiessen in his book, The Snow Leopard. The bharal is a major food of the snow leopard.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Bharal is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Lesser kudu with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sitatunga with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Alpine ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese serow with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Domestic yak with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peters’s duiker weighting around 18.94 kilograms (41.76 lbs)
- Goa (antelope) with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hartebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Japanese serow with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Bharal
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Hooded seal
- Hispid pocket gopher
- Green ringtail possum
- Taiwan vole
- Southern muriqui
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat
- Silver-haired bat
- Sooty mangabey
- Aba roundleaf bat
- Whiptail wallaby
Animals that get as old as a Bharal
Other animals that usually reach the age of 24 years:
- Bahamian raccoon with 21 years
- Platypus with 22 years
- Egyptian mongoose with 20 years
- African brush-tailed porcupine with 22.83 years
- Red wolf with 20 years
- Tana River mangabey with 21 years
- Leopard with 23 years
- Coyote with 21.83 years
- Dusky leaf monkey with 25 years
- Sumatran serow with 21 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bharal
What other animals weight around 52.16 kg (114.98 lbs)?
- Bohor reedbuck usually reaching 43.09 kgs (95 lbs)
- Spinner dolphin usually reaching 50.5 kgs (111.33 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer usually reaching 46.48 kgs (102.47 lbs)
- Chimpanzee usually reaching 45.03 kgs (99.27 lbs)
- Hector’s dolphin usually reaching 50 kgs (110.23 lbs)
- Sika deer usually reaching 53 kgs (116.84 lbs)
- Cheetah usually reaching 50.54 kgs (111.42 lbs)
- Harbour porpoise usually reaching 52.72 kgs (116.23 lbs)
- Japanese serow usually reaching 42.6 kgs (93.92 lbs)
- Capybara usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bharal
Also reaching around 1.3 meter (4′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Baikal seal gets as big as 1.27 meter (4′ 3″)
- Taruca gets as big as 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Sitatunga gets as big as 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Siberian roe deer gets as big as 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Brown bear gets as big as 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- Cheetah gets as big as 1.48 meter (4′ 11″)
- Visayan warty pig gets as big as 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Philippine deer gets as big as 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Pampas deer gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)