How many baby Takins are in a litter?
A Takin (Budorcas taxicolor) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 235 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 5.88 kg (12.96 lbs) and measure 7.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Budorcas). An adult Takin grows up to a size of 1.74 meter (5′ 9″).
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 takin (; Budorcas taxicolor; Tibetan: ར་རྒྱ་, Wylie: ra rgya), also called cattle chamois or gnu goat, is a large species of ungulate of the subfamily Caprinae found in the eastern Himalayas. The four subspecies are the Mishmi takin (B. t. taxicolor), the golden takin (B. t. bedfordi), the Tibetan (or Sichuan) takin (B. t. tibetana), and the Bhutan takin (B. t. whitei). Whilst the takin has in the past been placed together with the muskox in the tribe Ovibovini, more recent mitochondrial research shows a closer relationship to Ovis (sheep). Its physical similarity to the muskox is therefore an example of convergent evolution. The takin is the national animal of Bhutan.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Takin is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Mountain gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Dama gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bongo (antelope) with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bluebuck weighting around 150 kilograms (330.69 lbs)
- Tamaraw with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Snow sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Giant eland becoming 16.17 years old
- Grey rhebok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red goral with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Takin
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Woodlark cuscus
- Cyclops roundleaf bat
- Hippopotamus
- Nelson’s kangaroo rat
- Addax
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Alpine musk deer
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew
- Urial
- Red-fronted gazelle
Animals that get as old as a Takin
Other animals that usually reach the age of 19.5 years:
- Northern elephant seal with 20.25 years
- White-nosed coati with 17.67 years
- Tana River mangabey with 21 years
- North American porcupine with 18 years
- Indian hog deer with 20 years
- Ring-tailed cat with 16.5 years
- Blue wildebeest with 21.5 years
- Indian muntjac with 17.58 years
- Bechstein’s bat with 21 years
- Asian golden cat with 18 years
Animals with the same weight as a Takin
What other animals weight around 292.76 kg (645.42 lbs)?
- Red deer usually reaching 240.43 kgs (530.06 lbs)
- Mediterranean monk seal usually reaching 294.94 kgs (650.23 lbs)
- Hooded seal usually reaching 278.95 kgs (614.98 lbs)
- Anoa usually reaching 256 kgs (564.38 lbs)
- Mountain zebra usually reaching 279.73 kgs (616.7 lbs)
- Burchell’s zebra usually reaching 278.08 kgs (613.06 lbs)
- Baird’s tapir usually reaching 292.39 kgs (644.61 lbs)
- Dugong usually reaching 295 kgs (650.36 lbs)
- Roan antelope usually reaching 262.09 kgs (577.81 lbs)
- New Zealand sea lion usually reaching 273.67 kgs (603.34 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Takin
Also reaching around 1.74 meter (5′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Dama gazelle gets as big as 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Nilgai gets as big as 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Southern reedbuck gets as big as 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Scimitar oryx gets as big as 1.91 meter (6′ 4″)
- Anoa gets as big as 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Australian sea lion gets as big as 1.8 meter (5′ 11″)
- Eld’s deer gets as big as 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Hirola gets as big as 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Arctocephalus forsteri gets as big as 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Sambar deer gets as big as 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)