What is the maximal age a Dall sheep reaches?
An adult Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) usually gets as old as 16 years.
Dall sheeps are around 172 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 3.5 kg (7.71 lbs) and measure 2.37 meter (7′ 10″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Ovis), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″).
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 Dall sheep, also known as the thinhorn sheep, (Ovis dalli) is a species of wild sheep native to northwestern North America, ranging from white to slate brown in colour and having curved, yellowish-brown horns. The two subspecies are the nominate Dall sheep or Dall’s sheep and the more southern subspecies, Stone sheep (also spelled Stone’s sheep) (O. d. stonei), which is a slate brown with some white patches on the rump and inside the hind legs.
Animals of the same family as a Dall sheep
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Thomson’s gazelle becoming 15.17 years old
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis becoming 21 years old
- American bison becoming 33 years old
- Gerenuk becoming 13 years old
- Red-fronted gazelle becoming 13.5 years old
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest growing to a mass of 168.7 kgs (371.92 lbs)
- African buffalo becoming 29.5 years old
- Dorcas gazelle becoming 17.42 years old
- Grey rhebok becoming 12.25 years old
- Grant’s gazelle becoming 12.67 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Dall sheep
With an average age of 16 years, Dall sheep are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Urial usually reaching 13.75 years
- Himalayan goral usually reaching 17.58 years
- Mountain gazelle usually reaching 18.25 years
- Gray mouse lemur usually reaching 15.5 years
- Whiptail wallaby usually reaching 14 years
- European polecat usually reaching 14 years
- Common warthog usually reaching 15 years
- Black-crested Sumatran langur usually reaching 16 years
- Goeldi’s marmoset usually reaching 17.83 years
- Guinea pig usually reaching 14.75 years
Animals with the same number of babies Dall sheep
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Hershkovitz’s titi
- Kivu shrew
- Mountain zebra
- Gee’s golden langur
- Common duiker
- Seba’s short-tailed bat
- Narwhal
- Silvery gibbon
- Antillean fruit-eating bat
- Leschenault’s rousette
Weighting as much as Dall sheep
A fully grown Dall sheep reaches around 70 kg (154.31 lbs). So do these animals:
- Nilgiri tahr weighting 73.94 kilos (163.01 lbs) on average
- Arabian oryx weighting 75.43 kilos (166.29 lbs) on average
- Ringed seal weighting 70.96 kilos (156.44 lbs) on average
- South Andean deer weighting 69.02 kilos (152.16 lbs) on average
- Sitatunga weighting 75.28 kilos (165.96 lbs) on average
- Australophocaena dioptrica weighting 65 kilos (143.3 lbs) on average
- Yellow-backed duiker weighting 61.65 kilos (135.91 lbs) on average
- Mountain goat weighting 71.84 kilos (158.38 lbs) on average
- South American fur seal weighting 68.14 kilos (150.22 lbs) on average
- Puku weighting 71.23 kilos (157.04 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Dall sheep
Those animals grow as big as a Dall sheep:
- Sumatran serow with 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Barasingha with 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Red river hog with 1.37 meter (4′ 6″)
- Ribbon seal with 1.54 meter (5′ 1″)
- Common warthog with 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Harnessed bushbuck with 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Harbor seal with 1.61 meter (5′ 4″)
- Abbott’s duiker with 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- Bharal with 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)