How many baby Dall sheeps are in a litter?
A Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 172 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3.5 kg (7.71 lbs) and measure 6.9 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Ovis). An adult Dall sheep grows up to a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″).
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 Dall sheep, also known as the thinhorn sheep, (Ovis dalli) is a species of wild sheep native to northwestern North America, ranging from white to slate brown in colour and having curved, yellowish-brown horns. The two subspecies are the nominate Dall sheep or Dall’s sheep and the more southern subspecies, Stone sheep (also spelled Stone’s sheep) (O. d. stonei), which is a slate brown with some white patches on the rump and inside the hind legs.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Dall sheep is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Puku with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dibatag with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bay duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cape grysbok becoming 14 years old
- Grey rhebok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Przewalski’s gazelle weighting around 27.5 kilograms (60.63 lbs)
- Nilgiri tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grant’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Goitered gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tamaraw with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Dall sheep
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
- Senegal bushbaby
- Southern elephant seal
- Ring-tailed vontsira
- Himalayan goral
- Alpaca
- Broad-toothed mouse
- L’Hoest’s monkey
- Aye-aye
- Jameson’s red rock hare
Animals that get as old as a Dall sheep
Other animals that usually reach the age of 16 years:
- North American porcupine with 18 years
- Llama with 14.17 years
- Bobak marmot with 15 years
- Harnessed bushbuck with 13 years
- Nilgiri tahr with 17.25 years
- Black-mantled tamarin with 15.17 years
- Red forest duiker with 15 years
- Urial with 13.75 years
- Long-tailed goral with 13.17 years
- Guinea pig with 14.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Dall sheep
What other animals weight around 70 kg (154.31 lbs)?
- Dama gazelle usually reaching 70.4 kgs (155.21 lbs)
- Puku usually reaching 71.23 kgs (157.04 lbs)
- Bushpig usually reaching 68.91 kgs (151.92 lbs)
- Bontebok usually reaching 77.24 kgs (170.28 lbs)
- Short-beaked common dolphin usually reaching 79.29 kgs (174.8 lbs)
- Mountain goat usually reaching 71.84 kgs (158.38 lbs)
- Desert warthog usually reaching 75.61 kgs (166.69 lbs)
- Nilgiri tahr usually reaching 73.94 kgs (163.01 lbs)
- Javan rusa usually reaching 65.8 kgs (145.06 lbs)
- Dama gazelle usually reaching 71.42 kgs (157.45 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Dall sheep
Also reaching around 1.42 meter (4′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Hirola gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Llama gets as big as 1.66 meter (5′ 6″)
- Mongolian gazelle gets as big as 1.24 meter (4′ 1″)
- Guanaco gets as big as 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle gets as big as 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Argali gets as big as 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Spotted seal gets as big as 1.64 meter (5′ 5″)
- Mountain goat gets as big as 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Javan warty pig gets as big as 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Brown bear gets as big as 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)