How many baby East Caucasian turs are in a litter?
A East Caucasian tur (Capra cylindricornis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 154 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.93 kg (4.24 lbs) and measure 1 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Capra). An adult East Caucasian tur grows up to a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″).
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 East Caucasian tur or Daghestan tur (Capra cylindricornis) is a mountain-dwelling caprine found only in the eastern half of the Greater Caucasus Mountains. The East Caucasian tur lives in rough mountainous terrain, where it eats mainly grasses and leaves and is preyed upon by wolves and lynxes. It is sometimes considered a subspecies of the West Caucasian tur, and sometimes as a full species in its own right. The species is listed as Near Threatened by the IUCN.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
East Caucasian tur is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Walia ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Black-fronted duiker becoming 19.67 years old
- Oribi with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Iberian ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blue duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dall sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dwarf blue sheep weighting around 29.27 kilograms (64.53 lbs)
- American bison with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red-fronted gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with East Caucasian tur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Common brown lemur
- Black-crested Sumatran langur
- Western tree hyrax
- Dark-winged lesser house bat
- Oecomys concolor
- Eastern forest bat
- Micronomus
- Blackish deer mouse
- Yellow baboon
- Indian rhinoceros
Animals that get as old as a East Caucasian tur
Other animals that usually reach the age of 22 years:
- Eurasian otter with 22 years
- West Caucasian tur with 20.5 years
- Red-rumped agouti with 17.75 years
- Aardwolf with 25 years
- Koala with 20 years
- Guatemalan black howler with 20 years
- Kit fox with 20 years
- Red wolf with 20 years
- Desert warthog with 18.75 years
- Mediterranean monk seal with 23.67 years
Animals with the same weight as a East Caucasian tur
What other animals weight around 57.5 kg (126.77 lbs)?
- Pantropical spotted dolphin usually reaching 65.72 kgs (144.89 lbs)
- Cheetah usually reaching 50.54 kgs (111.42 lbs)
- Capybara usually reaching 48.14 kgs (106.13 lbs)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle usually reaching 48.5 kgs (106.92 lbs)
- Iberian ibex usually reaching 60.55 kgs (133.49 lbs)
- Urial usually reaching 51.8 kgs (114.2 lbs)
- Aardvark usually reaching 56.85 kgs (125.33 lbs)
- Harbour porpoise usually reaching 52.72 kgs (116.23 lbs)
- Hector’s dolphin usually reaching 50 kgs (110.23 lbs)
- Bharal usually reaching 52.16 kgs (114.99 lbs)