What is the maximal age a Chamois reaches?
An adult Chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) usually gets as old as 22 years.
Chamoiss are around 178 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 2.25 kg (4.96 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Rupicapra), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″).
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 chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra) is a species of goat-antelope native to mountains in Europe, from west to east, including the Cantabrian mountains, the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Apennines, the Dinarides, the Tatra and the Carpathian Mountains, the Balkan Mountains, the Rila – Rhodope massif, Pindus, the northeastern mountains of Turkey, and the Caucasus. The chamois has also been introduced to the South Island of New Zealand. Some subspecies of chamois are strictly protected in the EU under the European Habitats Directive.
Animals of the same family as a Chamois
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Goa (antelope) with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Domestic yak becoming 22.25 years old
- Nile lechwe becoming 18.67 years old
- Alpine ibex becoming 22.25 years old
- Blue duiker becoming 12 years old
- Scimitar oryx becoming 20.42 years old
- Speke’s gazelle becoming 12.67 years old
- Aders’s duiker becoming 4 years old
- Kob becoming 21.92 years old
- Barbary sheep becoming 21 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Chamois
With an average age of 22 years, Chamois are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Keen’s myotis usually reaching 18.5 years
- Moustached guenon usually reaching 23 years
- Striped hyena usually reaching 24 years
- Siberian ibex usually reaching 22.25 years
- Eurasian beaver usually reaching 25 years
- Risso’s dolphin usually reaching 20 years
- Grizzled tree-kangaroo usually reaching 20 years
- Anoa usually reaching 22.5 years
- Thorold’s deer usually reaching 18 years
- Commerson’s dolphin usually reaching 18 years
Animals with the same number of babies Chamois
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Maned sloth
- Bighorn sheep
- Northern olingo
- Western red colobus
- Little red flying fox
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle
- Six-banded armadillo
- Malayan tapir
- Takin
- Phayre’s leaf monkey
Weighting as much as Chamois
A fully grown Chamois reaches around 33.11 kg (73 lbs). So do these animals:
- Sheep weighting 37.47 kilos (82.61 lbs) on average
- Sumatran orangutan weighting 39.7 kilos (87.52 lbs) on average
- Tibetan antelope weighting 32.66 kilos (72 lbs) on average
- Galápagos fur seal weighting 39.47 kilos (87.02 lbs) on average
- Red kangaroo weighting 38.98 kilos (85.94 lbs) on average
- Red wolf weighting 26.7 kilos (58.86 lbs) on average
- Himalayan goral weighting 28.75 kilos (63.38 lbs) on average
- Przewalski’s gazelle weighting 27.5 kilos (60.63 lbs) on average
- Chacoan peccary weighting 35.38 kilos (78 lbs) on average
- Saiga antelope weighting 37.57 kilos (82.83 lbs) on average