What is the maximal age a Himalayan goral reaches?
An adult Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus goral) usually gets as old as 17.58 years.
Himalayan gorals are around 212 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 2 kg (4.41 lbs) and measure 5.3 cm (0′ 3″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Naemorhedus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″).
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 Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus goral) is a bovid species found across the Himalayas. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List because the population is thought to be declining significantly due to habitat loss hunting for meat.
Animals of the same family as a Himalayan goral
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Roan antelope becoming 20 years old
- Domestic yak becoming 22.25 years old
- Nilgiri tahr becoming 17.25 years old
- Red-fronted gazelle becoming 13.5 years old
- Bates’s pygmy antelope becoming 14 years old
- Chinkara growing to a mass of 18.91 kgs (41.69 lbs)
- Red-fronted gazelle becoming 13.5 years old
- Saiga antelope becoming 12 years old
- Dibatag becoming 3 years old
- Snow sheep with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Himalayan goral
With an average age of 17.58 years, Himalayan goral are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Masked palm civet usually reaching 18 years
- Nile lechwe usually reaching 18.67 years
- Bongo (antelope) usually reaching 19.42 years
- South African springhare usually reaching 14.5 years
- La Plata dolphin usually reaching 16 years
- Tayra usually reaching 18 years
- Kirk’s dik-dik usually reaching 16.5 years
- Emperor tamarin usually reaching 20.17 years
- Big hairy armadillo usually reaching 20 years
- Sheep usually reaching 19.17 years
Animals with the same number of babies Himalayan goral
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Bare-backed rousette
- Miniopterus macrocneme
- Indian hog deer
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat
- Black dorcopsis
- Madagascan fruit bat
- Hirola
- Riverine rabbit
- Spotted giant flying squirrel
- Guatemalan black howler
Weighting as much as Himalayan goral
A fully grown Himalayan goral reaches around 28.75 kg (63.38 lbs). So do these animals:
- Wolf weighting 33.38 kilos (73.59 lbs) on average
- Western grey kangaroo weighting 25.58 kilos (56.39 lbs) on average
- Maned wolf weighting 23.31 kilos (51.39 lbs) on average
- Long-tailed goral weighting 27 kilos (59.52 lbs) on average
- Mountain reedbuck weighting 29.2 kilos (64.37 lbs) on average
- Finless porpoise weighting 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs) on average
- Giant anteater weighting 28.72 kilos (63.32 lbs) on average
- Tufted deer weighting 23.04 kilos (50.79 lbs) on average
- Rhim gazelle weighting 24.47 kilos (53.95 lbs) on average
- Snow leopard weighting 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Himalayan goral
Those animals grow as big as a Himalayan goral:
- Striped hyena with 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
- Wolf with 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Capybara with 1.22 meter (4′ 0″)
- Saiga antelope with 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Thomson’s gazelle with 88.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Gray brocket with 92.3 cm (3′ 1″)
- Coyote with 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Red wolf with 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Goa (antelope) with 98 cm (3′ 3″)
- Black-fronted duiker with 94.4 cm (3′ 2″)