How many baby Nubian ibexs are in a litter?
A Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 150 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 2.78 kg (6.13 lbs) and measure 37.5 cm (1′ 3″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Capra). An adult Nubian ibex 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 Nubian ibex (Capra nubiana) is a desert-dwelling goat species found in mountainous areas of northern and northeast Africa, and the Middle East. Its range is within Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Yemen. It is historically considered to be a subspecies of the Alpine ibex (C. ibex), but is increasingly considered a specifically distinct species (C. nubiana). The wild population is estimated at 1,200 individuals.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Nubian ibex is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Addax with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Saiga antelope with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Bighorn sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ogilby’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Cuvier’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rhim gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Markhor with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Arabian tahr with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Water buffalo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Nubian ibex
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Northern cave bat
- Giant anteater
- Northern greater galago
- Arabian gazelle
- Grivet
- Seba’s short-tailed bat
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis
- White-faced saki
- Nilgai
- Greater dog-like bat
Animals that get as old as a Nubian ibex
Other animals that usually reach the age of 17 years:
- Black-striped wallaby with 15 years
- Sable with 15 years
- Ring-tailed cat with 16.5 years
- Mountain goat with 19.17 years
- Malabar large-spotted civet with 14 years
- Asian golden cat with 18 years
- Cape grysbok with 14 years
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with 14.33 years
- Bay duiker with 17 years
- Himalayan goral with 17.58 years
Animals with the same weight as a Nubian ibex
What other animals weight around 47.68 kg (105.12 lbs)?
- Philippine deer usually reaching 49.46 kgs (109.04 lbs)
- Fallow deer usually reaching 56.71 kgs (125.02 lbs)
- Chilean dolphin usually reaching 45 kgs (99.21 lbs)
- Red gazelle usually reaching 40 kgs (88.18 lbs)
- Brown hyena usually reaching 43.4 kgs (95.68 lbs)
- Vicuña usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
- Sun bear usually reaching 57.04 kgs (125.75 lbs)
- Grant’s gazelle usually reaching 55 kgs (121.25 lbs)
- Brown hyena usually reaching 42.98 kgs (94.75 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer usually reaching 45.8 kgs (100.97 lbs)