How many baby Himalayan tahrs are in a litter?
A Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 195 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2.7 kg (5.95 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Hemitragus). An adult Himalayan tahr 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 Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus) is a large even-toed ungulate native to the Himalayas in southern Tibet, northern India and Nepal. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List, as the population is declining due to hunting and habitat loss.A recent phylogenetic analysis indicates that the genus Hemitragus is monospecific, and that the Himalayan tahr is a wild goat.The Himalayan tahr has been introduced to Argentina, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Himalayan tahr is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Black-fronted duiker becoming 19.67 years old
- Muskox with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Steenbok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sitatunga with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest weighting around 168.7 kilograms (371.92 lbs)
- Mountain gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red goral with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arabian gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Springbok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Snow sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Himalayan tahr
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Pallas’s squirrel
- Sunda pangolin
- Black rhinoceros
- Grey-cheeked mangabey
- Striped bandicoot
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- Parti-coloured bat
- Fallow deer
- Red kangaroo
Animals that get as old as a Himalayan tahr
Other animals that usually reach the age of 21.75 years:
- Weddell seal with 25 years
- Sitatunga with 21.5 years
- Grévy’s zebra with 26 years
- Goeldi’s marmoset with 17.83 years
- Monk saki with 24.58 years
- Greater kudu with 23 years
- Aardvark with 24 years
- Aardwolf with 25 years
- Cougar with 20 years
- American marten with 19 years
Animals with the same weight as a Himalayan tahr
What other animals weight around 68.26 kg (150.48 lbs)?
- Iberian ibex usually reaching 60.55 kgs (133.49 lbs)
- South American fur seal usually reaching 68.14 kgs (150.22 lbs)
- Short-beaked common dolphin usually reaching 79.29 kgs (174.8 lbs)
- Spectacled porpoise usually reaching 65 kgs (143.3 lbs)
- Sitatunga usually reaching 75.28 kgs (165.96 lbs)
- Northern fur seal usually reaching 55.58 kgs (122.53 lbs)
- Ringed seal usually reaching 71.1 kgs (156.75 lbs)
- Caspian seal usually reaching 62.33 kgs (137.41 lbs)
- Caspian seal usually reaching 62.3 kgs (137.35 lbs)
- Bighorn sheep usually reaching 74.63 kgs (164.53 lbs)