How many baby Mountain goats are in a litter?
A Mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 181 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3.08 kg (6.79 lbs) and measure 2.37 meter (7′ 10″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Oreamnos). An adult Mountain goat grows up to a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″).
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 mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus), also known as the Rocky Mountain goat, is a hoofed mammal endemic to North America. A subalpine to alpine species, it is a sure-footed climber commonly seen on cliffs and ice.Despite its vernacular name, it is not a member of Capra, the genus that includes all other goats, such as the wild goat, Capra aegagrus, from which the domestic goat is derived. The mountain goat was used as the emblem of the Great Northern Railway until merger with Burlington Northern in 1970.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Mountain goat is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Markhor with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Banteng with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Saola weighting around 97.84 kilograms (215.7 lbs)
- Red forest duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Himalayan goral with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Maxwell’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-backed duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dama gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arabian gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Puku with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mountain goat
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- North Atlantic right whale
- Squirrel glider
- Dwarf musk deer
- Northern viscacha
- Anoa
- Painted ringtail possum
- Naked-rumped tomb bat
- Peters’s flat-headed bat
- Red fruit bat
- Striped possum
Animals that get as old as a Mountain goat
Other animals that usually reach the age of 19.17 years:
- Japanese serow with 18.5 years
- Black-fronted duiker with 19.67 years
- Caracal with 17 years
- Dama gazelle with 17.25 years
- Bechstein’s bat with 21 years
- Sitatunga with 21.5 years
- Common pipistrelle with 16.67 years
- Chamois with 22 years
- Big hairy armadillo with 20 years
- Antarctic fur seal with 23 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain goat
What other animals weight around 71.84 kg (158.37 lbs)?
- Bontebok usually reaching 77.24 kgs (170.28 lbs)
- Dall sheep usually reaching 70 kgs (154.32 lbs)
- Bighorn sheep usually reaching 74.63 kgs (164.53 lbs)
- Pantropical spotted dolphin usually reaching 65.72 kgs (144.89 lbs)
- Alpine ibex usually reaching 69.42 kgs (153.04 lbs)
- White-tailed deer usually reaching 75.6 kgs (166.67 lbs)
- Spotted hyena usually reaching 63.69 kgs (140.41 lbs)
- Common warthog usually reaching 82.5 kgs (181.88 lbs)
- Caspian seal usually reaching 62.33 kgs (137.41 lbs)
- Spectacled porpoise usually reaching 65 kgs (143.3 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mountain goat
Also reaching around 1.3 meter (4′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Guanaco gets as big as 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Southern reedbuck gets as big as 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Black duiker gets as big as 1.04 meter (3′ 6″)
- Yellow-backed duiker gets as big as 1.32 meter (4′ 5″)
- Grant’s gazelle gets as big as 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Abbott’s duiker gets as big as 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- Sea otter gets as big as 1.44 meter (4′ 9″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis gets as big as 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Siberian roe deer gets as big as 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Taruca gets as big as 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)