How many baby Himalayan gorals are in a litter?
A Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus goral) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 212 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2 kg (4.41 lbs) and measure 5.3 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Naemorhedus). An adult Himalayan goral grows up to a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″).
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 Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus goral) is a bovid species found across the Himalayas. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List because the population is thought to be declining significantly due to habitat loss hunting for meat.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Himalayan goral is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Dibatag with 1 babies per pregnancy
- European bison with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Anoa with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dama gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Topi becoming 12.5 years old
- Saudi gazelle weighting around 16 kilograms (35.27 lbs)
- Blue duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Argali with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Takin with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Walia ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Himalayan goral
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Atlantic titi
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- Goa (antelope)
- Little red flying fox
- Desert rat-kangaroo
- West Caucasian tur
- Antillean fruit-eating bat
- Wedge-capped capuchin
- Mandrill
- Western broad-nosed bat
Animals that get as old as a Himalayan goral
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17.58 years:
- Guatemalan black howler with 20 years
- Black-striped wallaby with 15 years
- Arabian oryx with 20 years
- Arctic fox with 15 years
- Lowland paca with 16 years
- Antilopine kangaroo with 16 years
- Blackbuck with 20.25 years
- European badger with 16.17 years
- Equatorial saki with 14.83 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 15.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Himalayan goral
What other animals weight around 28.75 kg (63.38 lbs)?
- Eastern grey kangaroo usually reaching 33.51 kgs (73.88 lbs)
- Thylacine usually reaching 30 kgs (66.14 lbs)
- Giant otter usually reaching 26 kgs (57.32 lbs)
- Western grey kangaroo usually reaching 25.58 kgs (56.39 lbs)
- Red-fronted gazelle usually reaching 27 kgs (59.52 lbs)
- Rhim gazelle usually reaching 24.47 kgs (53.95 lbs)
- Red-fronted gazelle usually reaching 27 kgs (59.52 lbs)
- Wolf usually reaching 33.38 kgs (73.59 lbs)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat usually reaching 31.88 kgs (70.28 lbs)
- Dibatag usually reaching 28.05 kgs (61.84 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Himalayan goral
Also reaching around 1.06 meter (3′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Four-horned antelope gets as big as 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Black musk deer gets as big as 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Chacoan peccary gets as big as 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Pampas deer gets as big as 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Mountain reedbuck gets as big as 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)
- Blackbuck gets as big as 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Zebra duiker gets as big as 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Common wombat gets as big as 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Brown hyena gets as big as 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Arabian tahr gets as big as 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)