How many baby Domestic yaks are in a litter?
A Domestic yak (Bos grunniens) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 273 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 23.04 kg (50.79 lbs) and measure 5.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Bos). An adult Domestic yak grows up to a size of 2.7 meter (8′ 11″).
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 domestic yak (Bos grunniens) is a long-haired domesticated bovid found throughout the Himalayan region of the Indian subcontinent, the Tibetan Plateau, Northern Myanmar, Yunnan, Sichuan and as far north as Mongolia and Siberia. It is descended from the wild yak (Bos mutus).
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Domestic yak is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Saola weighting around 97.84 kilograms (215.7 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rhim gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blue wildebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nyala with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cuvier’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-backed duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Kirk’s dik-dik with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Puku with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mongolian gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Domestic yak
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Naked-rumped tomb bat
- Large slit-faced bat
- Antarctic fur seal
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
- Sooty mangabey
- Grant’s gazelle
- Grant’s gazelle
- Melck’s house bat
- Asian golden cat
- Northern greater galago
Animals that get as old as a Domestic yak
Other animals that usually reach the age of 22.25 years:
- Greater kudu with 23 years
- Tayra with 18 years
- Aardwolf with 25 years
- Crested mona monkey with 24.08 years
- Pond bat with 19.5 years
- Big hairy armadillo with 20 years
- Hector’s dolphin with 20 years
- Egyptian mongoose with 20 years
- North American river otter with 25 years
- Bharal with 24 years
Animals with the same weight as a Domestic yak
What other animals weight around 500 kg (1102.31 lbs)?
- Pygmy sperm whale usually reaching 431.25 kgs (950.74 lbs)
- Moose usually reaching 471.45 kgs (1039.37 lbs)
- Moose usually reaching 541.46 kgs (1193.71 lbs)
- African manatee usually reaching 454 kgs (1000.9 lbs)
- Horse usually reaching 401.8 kgs (885.82 lbs)
- Common eland usually reaching 561.8 kgs (1238.56 lbs)
- Bactrian camel usually reaching 550.76 kgs (1214.22 lbs)
- Plains zebra usually reaching 400 kgs (881.85 lbs)
- Grévy’s zebra usually reaching 405.5 kgs (893.97 lbs)
- West Indian manatee usually reaching 467.16 kgs (1029.91 lbs)