How many baby West Caucasian turs are in a litter?
A West Caucasian tur (Capra caucasica) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 154 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 1.93 kg (4.24 lbs) and measure 1 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Capra). An adult West Caucasian tur 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 West Caucasian tur (Capra caucasica syn Capra caucasica caucasica) is a mountain-dwelling goat-antelope found only in the western half of the Caucasus Mountains range.West Caucasian turs stand up to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall at the shoulder and weigh around 65 kg (143 lb). They have large but narrow bodies and short legs. West Caucasian turs have a chestnut coat with a yellow underbelly and darker legs. Their horns are scimitar-shaped and heavily ridged. In males, these horns are around 70 cm (28 in), while in females they are much smaller.West Caucasian turs live in rough mountainous terrain between 800 and 4,000 m (2,600 and 13,100 ft) above sea level, where they eat mainly grasses and leaves and are preyed upon by wolves and lynxes. They are nocturnal, eating in the open at night and sheltering during the day. Females live in herds of around 10 individuals, while males are solitary.The wild population is estimated to be between 5,000 and 6,000 individuals.
Other animals of the family Bovidae
West Caucasian tur is a member of the Bovidae, as are these animals:
- Black wildebeest with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ogilby’s duiker with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Pyrenean chamois weighting around 30 kilograms (66.14 lbs)
- Red hartebeest becoming 15.25 years old
- Long-tailed goral becoming 13.17 years old
- Grant’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Greater kudu with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Blue duiker becoming 12 years old
- Goitered gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Roan antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with West Caucasian tur
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat
- Malagasy serotine
- Greater spot-nosed monkey
- Grant’s gazelle
- Madagascan large free-tailed bat
- Pennant’s colobus
- Rothschild’s woolly rat
- Stump-tailed macaque
- Delicate mouse
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat
Animals that get as old as a West Caucasian tur
Other animals that usually reach the age of 20.5 years:
- Beech marten with 18.08 years
- Arabian oryx with 20 years
- Mountain gazelle with 18.25 years
- European pine marten with 17 years
- Red goral with 18.25 years
- Brown hyena with 17 years
- Asian palm civet with 22.42 years
- Moustached guenon with 23 years
- Finless porpoise with 23 years
- Celebes crested macaque with 18 years
Animals with the same weight as a West Caucasian tur
What other animals weight around 60.73 kg (133.88 lbs)?
- Ringed seal usually reaching 70.96 kgs (156.44 lbs)
- Red river hog usually reaching 70 kgs (154.32 lbs)
- Mountain goat usually reaching 71.84 kgs (158.38 lbs)
- Alpaca usually reaching 64.9 kgs (143.08 lbs)
- Cougar usually reaching 53.93 kgs (118.9 lbs)
- Burmeister’s porpoise usually reaching 60 kgs (132.28 lbs)
- Bushpig usually reaching 68.91 kgs (151.92 lbs)
- Spotted hyena usually reaching 63.69 kgs (140.41 lbs)
- Markhor usually reaching 53.95 kgs (118.94 lbs)
- Grant’s gazelle usually reaching 55.46 kgs (122.27 lbs)