How many baby Goats are in a litter?
A Goat (Capra hircus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 156 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2.14 kg (4.71 lbs) and measure 37.5 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Capra). An adult Goat grows up to a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″).
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 goat or simply goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of C. aegagrus domesticated from the wild goat of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the animal family Bovidae and the subfamily Caprinae, meaning it is closely related to the sheep. There are over 300 distinct breeds of goat. Goats are one of the oldest domesticated species of animal, and have been used for milk, meat, fur and skins across much of the world. Milk from goats is often turned into goat cheese.Female goats are referred to as does or nannies, intact males are called bucks or billies and juvenile goats of both sexes are called kids. Castrated males are called wethers. While the words hircine and caprine both refer to anything having a goat-like quality, hircine is used most often to emphasize the distinct smell of domestic goats.In 2011, there were more than 924 million goats living in the world, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Goat is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Dorcas gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Snow sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pyrenean chamois weighting around 30 kilograms (66.14 lbs)
- Grey rhebok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Royal antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arabian tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mountain gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Addax with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Goat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Spotted seal
- Black wallaroo
- Black rhinoceros
- Tarabundí vole
- Ringed seal
- Malagasy civet
- Black capuchin
- Ring-tailed vontsira
- Dama gazelle
Animals that get as old as a Goat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20.75 years:
- Pond bat with 19.5 years
- Ross seal with 21 years
- Klipspringer with 17.75 years
- Mantled guereza with 24.5 years
- Golden-backed uakari with 18 years
- Egyptian mongoose with 20 years
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo with 20 years
- African palm civet with 18.5 years
- Alpine marmot with 18 years
- Caracal with 17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Goat
What other animals weight around 47.14 kg (103.93 lbs)?
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle usually reaching 48.5 kgs (106.92 lbs)
- Siberian roe deer usually reaching 41.19 kgs (90.81 lbs)
- Chilean dolphin usually reaching 45 kgs (99.21 lbs)
- Sumatran orangutan usually reaching 39.7 kgs (87.52 lbs)
- Red gazelle usually reaching 40 kgs (88.18 lbs)
- Galápagos fur seal usually reaching 39.47 kgs (87.02 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer usually reaching 46.48 kgs (102.47 lbs)
- La Plata dolphin usually reaching 40.5 kgs (89.29 lbs)
- Bornean orangutan usually reaching 52.97 kgs (116.78 lbs)
- Bharal usually reaching 52.16 kgs (114.99 lbs)