What is the maximal age a Takin reaches?
An adult Takin (Budorcas taxicolor) usually gets as old as 19.5 years.
Takins are around 235 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 5.88 kg (12.96 lbs) and measure 6.27 meter (20′ 7″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Budorcas), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.74 meter (5′ 9″).
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 takin (; Budorcas taxicolor; Tibetan: ར་རྒྱ་, Wylie: ra rgya), also called cattle chamois or gnu goat, is a large species of ungulate of the subfamily Caprinae found in the eastern Himalayas. The four subspecies are the Mishmi takin (B. t. taxicolor), the golden takin (B. t. bedfordi), the Tibetan (or Sichuan) takin (B. t. tibetana), and the Bhutan takin (B. t. whitei). Whilst the takin has in the past been placed together with the muskox in the tribe Ovibovini, more recent mitochondrial research shows a closer relationship to Ovis (sheep). Its physical similarity to the muskox is therefore an example of convergent evolution. The takin is the national animal of Bhutan.
Animals of the same family as a Takin
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Sable antelope becoming 22.25 years old
- Sheep becoming 19.17 years old
- Walia ibex with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Red goral becoming 18.25 years old
- Topi becoming 12.5 years old
- Red gazelle growing to a mass of 40 kgs (88.18 lbs)
- Suni becoming 14 years old
- East Caucasian tur becoming 22 years old
- Cattle becoming 20 years old
- Maxwell’s duiker becoming 12.25 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Takin
With an average age of 19.5 years, Takin are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Lesser mouse-eared bat usually reaching 19.75 years
- Short-eared possum usually reaching 17 years
- Lechwe usually reaching 18.5 years
- Black-footed mongoose usually reaching 15.83 years
- Dall’s porpoise usually reaching 22 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat usually reaching 21.17 years
- Oribi usually reaching 15.75 years
- Dall sheep usually reaching 16 years
- Fringed myotis usually reaching 18.25 years
- Koala usually reaching 20 years
Animals with the same number of babies Takin
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Large flying fox
- Tana River red colobus
- Dusky elephant shrew
- Jentink’s duiker
- Red-tailed monkey
- Sun bear
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat
- Lemur-like ringtail possum
- Barasingha
- Feather-tailed possum
Weighting as much as Takin
A fully grown Takin reaches around 292.76 kg (645.42 lbs). So do these animals:
- Malayan tapir weighting 309.61 kilos (682.57 lbs) on average
- Sable antelope weighting 235.2 kilos (518.53 lbs) on average
- Kiang weighting 280.57 kilos (618.55 lbs) on average
- Onager weighting 235.62 kilos (519.45 lbs) on average
- Mountain zebra weighting 279.73 kilos (616.7 lbs) on average
- Common bottlenose dolphin weighting 281.02 kilos (619.54 lbs) on average
- Hooded seal weighting 278.95 kilos (614.98 lbs) on average
- Anoa weighting 256 kilos (564.38 lbs) on average
- Baird’s tapir weighting 292.39 kilos (644.61 lbs) on average
- Red deer weighting 240.43 kilos (530.06 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Takin
Those animals grow as big as a Takin:
- Ross seal with 2.07 meter (6′ 10″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Gerenuk with 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Nyala with 1.94 meter (6′ 5″)
- Brown fur seal with 1.91 meter (6′ 3″)
- Dibatag with 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Scimitar oryx with 1.91 meter (6′ 4″)
- Eld’s deer with 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Bighorn sheep with 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Sambar deer with 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)