What is the maximal age a Anoa reaches?
An adult Anoa (Bubalus depressicornis) usually gets as old as 36 years.
Anoas are around 295 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 55 grams (0.12 lbs) and measure 6.27 meter (20′ 7″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Bubalus), a Anoa caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.73 meter (5′ 9″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
Anoa, also known as midget buffalo and sapiutan, are a subgenus of Bubalus comprising two species endemic to the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia: the mountain anoa (Bubalus quarlesi) and the lowland anoa (Bubalus depressicornis). Both live in undisturbed rainforest and are similar in appearance to miniature water buffalo, weighing 150–300 kg (330–660 lb).Both species of anoa have been classified as endangered since the 1960s and the populations continue to decrease. Fewer than 5,000 animals of each species likely remain. Reasons for their decline include hunting for hides, horns and meat by the local peoples and loss of habitat due to the advancement of settlement. Currently, hunting is the more serious factor in most areas.After a study of the skulls of many anoa, it was shown that there was hybridizing and interbreeding between the two. It was questioned as to whether the two species were actually different due to mixing of the two in many different areas, as well as some interbreeding. After analyzing the DNA barcode of the two, it was proven that they are in fact different species.
Animals of the same family as a Anoa
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Red forest duiker becoming 15 years old
- Tibetan antelope with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Grey rhebok becoming 12.25 years old
- Sheep becoming 19.17 years old
- Arabian tahr becoming 14 years old
- European bison becoming 27 years old
- Nilgai becoming 21.67 years old
- Suni becoming 14 years old
- Soemmerring’s gazelle becoming 15.5 years old
- Red goral becoming 18.25 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Anoa
With an average age of 36 years, Anoa are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Pagai Island macaque usually reaching 30 years
- South American tapir usually reaching 35 years
- Diana monkey usually reaching 37.25 years
- Lar gibbon usually reaching 40 years
- Bowhead whale usually reaching 40 years
- Lion usually reaching 30 years
- Hoffmann’s two-toed sloth usually reaching 32.08 years
- Sea otter usually reaching 30 years
- Siamang usually reaching 38 years
- Hooded seal usually reaching 35 years
Animals with the same number of babies Anoa
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Reeves’s muntjac
- Ursine colobus
- Angola colobus
- White-bellied spider monkey
- Temminck’s flying squirrel
- Rusty pipistrelle
- Insular single leaf bat
- Bonnet macaque
- Guam flying fox
- Bighorn sheep
Weighting as much as Anoa
A fully grown Anoa reaches around 256 kg (564.37 lbs). So do these animals:
- Ross seal weighting 208.63 kilos (459.95 lbs) on average
- Sable antelope weighting 235.2 kilos (518.53 lbs) on average
- Okapi weighting 230 kilos (507.06 lbs) on average
- Tamaraw weighting 252.7 kilos (557.11 lbs) on average
- Hooded seal weighting 278.95 kilos (614.98 lbs) on average
- Bearded seal weighting 280 kilos (617.29 lbs) on average
- Bongo (antelope) weighting 269.5 kilos (594.15 lbs) on average
- New Zealand sea lion weighting 273.67 kilos (603.34 lbs) on average
- Crabeater seal weighting 225 kilos (496.04 lbs) on average
- Mediterranean monk seal weighting 294.94 kilos (650.23 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Anoa
Those animals grow as big as a Anoa:
- Ross seal with 2.07 meter (6′ 10″)
- Hirola with 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Takin with 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Guanaco with 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Cheetah with 1.48 meter (4′ 11″)
- White-tailed deer with 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- American black bear with 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Black wildebeest with 1.82 meter (6′ 0″)
- Spectacled bear with 1.77 meter (5′ 10″)
- Sitatunga with 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)