What is the maximal age a Gayal reaches?
An adult Gayal (Bos frontalis) usually gets as old as 26.17 years.
Gayals are around 273 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 23.04 kg (50.79 lbs) and measure 6.27 meter (20′ 7″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Bos), a Gayal caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 2.7 meter (8′ 11″).
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 gayal (Bos frontalis), also known as mithun in Myanmar, is a large domestic bovine distributed in Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and in Yunnan, China.
Animals of the same family as a Gayal
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Argali becoming 15 years old
- Maxwell’s duiker becoming 12.25 years old
- Weyns’s duiker becoming 15.25 years old
- European bison becoming 27 years old
- Mountain reedbuck becoming 12.25 years old
- Lechwe becoming 18.5 years old
- Nyala becoming 16 years old
- Iberian ibex becoming 16 years old
- Topi becoming 12.5 years old
- Grant’s gazelle becoming 12.67 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Gayal
With an average age of 26.17 years, Gayal are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Ross seal usually reaching 21 years
- Finless porpoise usually reaching 23 years
- Pacific white-sided dolphin usually reaching 25 years
- Ryukyu flying fox usually reaching 31 years
- Asian palm civet usually reaching 22.42 years
- Cotton-top tamarin usually reaching 23.08 years
- Anoa usually reaching 22.5 years
- Angolan talapoin usually reaching 30.83 years
- Egyptian fruit bat usually reaching 22.83 years
- Cacomistle usually reaching 23 years
Animals with the same number of babies Gayal
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Greater noctule bat
- Steller’s sea cow
- Coppery titi
- Black and rufous elephant shrew
- Baikal seal
- Barbary macaque
- Little yellow bat
- Japanese serow
- Natal red rock hare
- Sykes’ monkey
Weighting as much as Gayal
A fully grown Gayal reaches around 800.07 kg (1763.85 lbs). So do these animals:
- Kouprey weighting 788.66 kilos (1738.7 lbs) on average
- Giant eland weighting 644.51 kilos (1420.9 lbs) on average
- Narwhal weighting 938.06 kilos (2068.07 lbs) on average
- European bison weighting 674.44 kilos (1486.88 lbs) on average
- Northern giraffe weighting 959.83 kilos (2116.06 lbs) on average
- Water buffalo weighting 924.25 kilos (2037.62 lbs) on average
- Long-finned pilot whale weighting 800 kilos (1763.7 lbs) on average
- Short-finned pilot whale weighting 726 kilos (1600.55 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Gayal
Those animals grow as big as a Gayal:
- Moose with 2.83 meter (9′ 4″)
- Weddell seal with 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)
- Amazonian manatee with 2.75 meter (9′ 1″)
- Mountain zebra with 2.35 meter (7′ 9″)
- Steller sea lion with 2.7 meter (8′ 11″)
- Caribbean monk seal with 2.29 meter (7′ 7″)
- Dugong with 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)
- Bearded seal with 2.3 meter (7′ 7″)
- Water buffalo with 2.65 meter (8′ 9″)
- Black rhinoceros with 2.85 meter (9′ 5″)