What is the maximal age a Markhor reaches?
An adult Markhor (Capra falconeri) usually gets as old as 14 years.
Markhors are around 167 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 1.93 kg (4.24 lbs) and measure 1 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Capra), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″).
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 markhor (Capra falconeri), is a large Capra species native to Central Asia, Karakoram and the Himalayas. It is listed on the IUCN Red List as Near Threatened since 2015.The markhor is the national animal of Pakistan, where it is also known as the screw horn or “screw-horned goat”, mārkhor (مارخور) in Pashto and mārkhor (मारख़ोर, مارخور) in Hindustani from Classical Persian.
Animals of the same family as a Markhor
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Maxwell’s duiker becoming 12.25 years old
- Ruwenzori duiker growing to a mass of 15 kgs (33.07 lbs)
- Roan antelope becoming 20 years old
- Kob becoming 21.92 years old
- Grey rhebok becoming 12.25 years old
- Mountain nyala becoming 11 years old
- Common eland becoming 24.33 years old
- Himalayan tahr becoming 21.75 years old
- Mountain goat becoming 19.17 years old
- Kirk’s dik-dik becoming 16.5 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Markhor
With an average age of 14 years, Markhor are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Red hartebeest usually reaching 15.25 years
- Crab-eating fox usually reaching 11.5 years
- Ground cuscus usually reaching 12 years
- Red-fronted gazelle usually reaching 13.5 years
- Hirola usually reaching 15.17 years
- Cape genet usually reaching 15 years
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby usually reaching 12 years
- Bobak marmot usually reaching 15 years
- Yellow mongoose usually reaching 15.17 years
- Cave myotis usually reaching 11.25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Markhor
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat
- Giant armadillo
- Prehensile-tailed hutia
- Highland brush mouse
- Montane fish-eating rat
- Jameson’s red rock hare
- Sclater’s guenon
- Pampas deer
- Dian’s tarsier
- Unadorned rock-wallaby
Weighting as much as Markhor
A fully grown Markhor reaches around 53.95 kg (118.94 lbs). So do these animals:
- Grant’s gazelle weighting 55 kilos (121.25 lbs) on average
- Bharal weighting 52.16 kilos (114.99 lbs) on average
- Philippine deer weighting 49.46 kilos (109.04 lbs) on average
- Harbour porpoise weighting 52.72 kilos (116.23 lbs) on average
- Chilean dolphin weighting 45 kilos (99.21 lbs) on average
- Urial weighting 51.8 kilos (114.2 lbs) on average
- Philippine deer weighting 49.1 kilos (108.25 lbs) on average
- Bawean deer weighting 55 kilos (121.25 lbs) on average
- Burmeister’s porpoise weighting 60 kilos (132.28 lbs) on average
- Southern reedbuck weighting 57.94 kilos (127.74 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Markhor
Those animals grow as big as a Markhor:
- Guanaco with 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Lesser kudu with 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
- Grant’s gazelle with 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Takin with 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Sloth bear with 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Pygmy hippopotamus with 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Spectacled bear with 1.77 meter (5′ 10″)
- Gerenuk with 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Ringed seal with 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Lion with 1.84 meter (6′ 1″)