How many baby Urials are in a litter?
A Urial (Ovis vignei) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 165 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3.5 kg (7.71 lbs) and measure 6.9 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Ovis). An adult Urial grows up to a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″).
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 urial (Ovis orientalis vignei group ), also known as the arkars or shapo, is a subspecies group of the wild sheep Ovis orientalis. Noticeable features are the reddish-brown long fur that fades during winter; males are characterized by a black ruff stretching from the neck to the chest and large horns. It is found in western central Asia. The other subspecies group of O. orientalis is the mouflon (Ovis orientalis orientalis group). The two groups have often been considered separate species.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
Urial is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Addax with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tamaraw with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Hirola with 1 babies per pregnancy
- West Caucasian tur with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common tsessebe with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Peters’s duiker weighting around 18.94 kilograms (41.76 lbs)
- Speke’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mongolian gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Bighorn sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Urial
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Formosan rock macaque
- Honduran white bat
- Vicuña
- Greater Asiatic yellow bat
- Hoolock gibbon
- Llama
- Moose
- Collared mangabey
- Indri
- Dama gazelle
Animals that get as old as a Urial
Other animals that usually reach the age of 13.75 years:
- Argali with 15 years
- Hirola with 15.17 years
- Java mouse-deer with 12 years
- Mountain pygmy possum with 12 years
- Maned sloth with 12 years
- Leadbeater’s possum with 11 years
- Greater glider with 15 years
- Blue duiker with 12 years
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with 12 years
- Equatorial saki with 14.83 years
Animals with the same weight as a Urial
What other animals weight around 51.8 kg (114.2 lbs)?
- Grant’s gazelle usually reaching 55 kgs (121.25 lbs)
- Harnessed bushbuck usually reaching 43.28 kgs (95.42 lbs)
- Brown hyena usually reaching 43.4 kgs (95.68 lbs)
- Celebes warty pig usually reaching 53.46 kgs (117.86 lbs)
- Pronghorn usually reaching 47.18 kgs (104.01 lbs)
- Japanese serow usually reaching 43.03 kgs (94.86 lbs)
- Vicuña usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
- Capybara usually reaching 47.5 kgs (104.72 lbs)
- Capybara usually reaching 48.14 kgs (106.13 lbs)
- Cheetah usually reaching 50.54 kgs (111.42 lbs)