What is the maximal age a Bharal reaches?
An adult Bharal (Pseudois nayaur) usually gets as old as 24 years.
Bharals are around 159 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 275 grams (0.61 lbs) and measure 1 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Pseudois), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″).
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.
The bharal (Pseudois nayaur), also called the Helan Shan blue sheep, Chinese blue sheep, Himalayan blue sheep or naur, is a caprid found in Bhutan, Gansu, the high Himalayas of India, Inner Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Ningxia, Pakistan, Sichuan and Tibet. The Helan Mountains of Ningxia has the highest concentration of bharal in the world, with 15 bharals per square kilometer and 30,000 in total. Its native names include yanyang (岩羊) in Mandarin, bharal, barhal, bharar and bharut in Hindi, na or sna in Tibetan and Ladakh, nabo in Spitian, naur in Nepali and na or gnao in Bhutan.The bharal was also the focus of George Schaller’s and Peter Matthiessen’s expedition to Nepal in 1973. Their personal experiences are well documented by Matthiessen in his book, The Snow Leopard. The bharal is a major food of the snow leopard.
Animals of the same family as a Bharal
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Bighorn sheep becoming 24 years old
- Nubian ibex becoming 17 years old
- Goa (antelope) with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Nilgiri tahr becoming 17.25 years old
- Common tsessebe becoming 18 years old
- Long-tailed goral becoming 13.17 years old
- Springbok becoming 20 years old
- Sable antelope becoming 22.25 years old
- Gerenuk becoming 13 years old
- Mountain goat becoming 19.17 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Bharal
With an average age of 24 years, Bharal are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Blue wildebeest usually reaching 21.5 years
- Venezuelan red howler usually reaching 25 years
- Eld’s deer usually reaching 19.33 years
- Mountain zebra usually reaching 24 years
- Jaguar usually reaching 23 years
- Banteng usually reaching 26.5 years
- Bechstein’s bat usually reaching 21 years
- Water buffalo usually reaching 28.25 years
- Common wallaroo usually reaching 24 years
- Western grey kangaroo usually reaching 20 years
Animals with the same number of babies Bharal
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Anoa
- Stephen’s woodrat
- Defua rat
- Dwarf hutia
- Maned rat
- Guatemalan black howler
- Bohor reedbuck
- Cape elephant shrew
- South American sea lion
- Northern giraffe
Weighting as much as Bharal
A fully grown Bharal reaches around 52.16 kg (114.98 lbs). So do these animals:
- Caspian seal weighting 62.3 kilos (137.35 lbs) on average
- Southern reedbuck weighting 57.94 kilos (127.74 lbs) on average
- Harnessed bushbuck weighting 43.28 kilos (95.42 lbs) on average
- Yellow-backed duiker weighting 61.65 kilos (135.91 lbs) on average
- Sika deer weighting 53 kilos (116.84 lbs) on average
- Urial weighting 51.8 kilos (114.2 lbs) on average
- Iberian ibex weighting 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs) on average
- Pronghorn weighting 47.18 kilos (104.01 lbs) on average
- Bornean orangutan weighting 52.97 kilos (116.78 lbs) on average
- Spinner dolphin weighting 50.5 kilos (111.33 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Bharal
Those animals grow as big as a Bharal:
- Sitatunga with 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Mongolian gazelle with 1.24 meter (4′ 1″)
- Baikal seal with 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Saiga antelope with 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Guanaco with 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Southern reedbuck with 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Taruca with 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Caspian seal with 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Vaquita with 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Galápagos fur seal with 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)