How many baby Gayals are in a litter?
A Gayal (Bos frontalis) 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 Gayal 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 gayal (Bos frontalis), also known as mithun in Myanmar, is a large domestic bovine distributed in Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and in Yunnan, China.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Gayal is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Arabian tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nile lechwe becoming 18.67 years old
- Scimitar oryx with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Silver dik-dik with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nyala with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blue duiker becoming 12 years old
- Maxwell’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Topi becoming 12.5 years old
- Argali with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Gayal
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Pale-throated sloth
- Sulawesi rousette
- Pileated gibbon
- North Atlantic right whale
- Eastern rock elephant shrew
- Heart-nosed bat
- Baikal seal
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin
- California leaf-nosed bat
- Hispid pocket gopher
Animals that get as old as a Gayal
Other animals that usually reach the age of 26.17 years:
- Weddell seal with 25 years
- Moose with 25 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with 21.17 years
- Anoa with 22.5 years
- Moose with 27 years
- Wolf with 29.5 years
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo with 21 years
- South American sea lion with 24.75 years
- Mantled howler with 25 years
- Leopard with 23 years
Animals with the same weight as a Gayal
What other animals weight around 800.07 kg (1763.85 lbs)?
- Kouprey usually reaching 788.66 kgs (1738.7 lbs)
- Long-finned pilot whale usually reaching 800 kgs (1763.7 lbs)
- European bison usually reaching 674.44 kgs (1486.88 lbs)
- Narwhal usually reaching 938.06 kgs (2068.07 lbs)
- Water buffalo usually reaching 924.25 kgs (2037.62 lbs)
- Giant eland usually reaching 644.51 kgs (1420.9 lbs)
- Short-finned pilot whale usually reaching 726 kgs (1600.55 lbs)
- Northern giraffe usually reaching 959.83 kgs (2116.06 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Gayal
Also reaching around 2.7 meter (8′ 11″) in size do these animals:
- Weddell seal gets as big as 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)
- Dugong gets as big as 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)
- White rhinoceros gets as big as 2.59 meter (8′ 6″)
- Moose gets as big as 2.83 meter (9′ 4″)
- Amazonian manatee gets as big as 2.75 meter (9′ 1″)
- Dwarf sperm whale gets as big as 2.16 meter (7′ 2″)
- Common eland gets as big as 2.66 meter (8′ 9″)
- European bison gets as big as 2.9 meter (9′ 7″)
- Steller sea lion gets as big as 2.7 meter (8′ 11″)
- Hooded seal gets as big as 2.33 meter (7′ 8″)