What is the maximal age a Tamaraw reaches?
An adult Tamaraw (Bubalus mindorensis) usually gets as old as 28 years.
Tamaraws are around 306 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: Bubalus), a Tamaraw caries out around 1 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 2.2 meter (7′ 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 tamaraw or Mindoro dwarf buffalo (Bubalus mindorensis) is a small hoofed mammal belonging to the family Bovidae. It is endemic to the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, and is the only endemic Philippine bovine. It is believed, however, to have once also thrived on the larger island of Luzon. The tamaraw was originally found all over Mindoro, from sea level up to the mountains (2000 meters above sea level), but because of human habitation, hunting, and logging, it is now restricted to only a few remote grassy plains and is now a critically endangered species.Contrary to common belief and past classification, the tamaraw is not a subspecies of the local carabao, which is only slightly larger, or the common water buffalo. In contrast to the carabao, it has a number of distinguishing characteristics: it is slightly hairier, has light markings on its face, is not gregarious, and has shorter horns that are somewhat V-shaped. It is the second largest native terrestrial mammal in the country next only to the carabao.
Animals of the same family as a Tamaraw
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Grant’s gazelle becoming 12.67 years old
- Dorcas gazelle becoming 17.42 years old
- Günther’s dik-dik becoming 14 years old
- Blackbuck becoming 20.25 years old
- Mountain nyala becoming 11 years old
- Cattle becoming 20 years old
- Urial becoming 13.75 years old
- Arabian oryx becoming 20 years old
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ruwenzori duiker growing to a mass of 15 kgs (33.07 lbs)
Animals that reach the same age as Tamaraw
With an average age of 28 years, Tamaraw are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Daubenton’s bat usually reaching 28 years
- Père David’s deer usually reaching 23.25 years
- Brown woolly monkey usually reaching 30 years
- Muskox usually reaching 24 years
- Bighorn sheep usually reaching 24 years
- Northern plains gray langur usually reaching 25 years
- California sea lion usually reaching 30 years
- Bonnet macaque usually reaching 30 years
- Allen’s swamp monkey usually reaching 23 years
- Dusky leaf monkey usually reaching 25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Tamaraw
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Hispid pocket gopher
- Black lemur
- Hildegarde’s tomb bat
- Western long-beaked echidna
- Tickell’s bat
- Ring-tailed vontsira
- Puna mouse
- Pygmy killer whale
- Tana River mangabey
Weighting as much as Tamaraw
A fully grown Tamaraw reaches around 252.7 kg (557.1 lbs). So do these animals:
- Okapi weighting 230 kilos (507.06 lbs) on average
- Baird’s tapir weighting 292.39 kilos (644.61 lbs) on average
- Hawaiian monk seal weighting 223 kilos (491.63 lbs) on average
- Takin weighting 292.76 kilos (645.42 lbs) on average
- Bearded seal weighting 280 kilos (617.29 lbs) on average
- Red deer weighting 240.43 kilos (530.06 lbs) on average
- Roan antelope weighting 262.09 kilos (577.81 lbs) on average
- Equus onager weighting 205 kilos (451.95 lbs) on average
- Sable antelope weighting 235.2 kilos (518.53 lbs) on average
- Common bottlenose dolphin weighting 281.02 kilos (619.54 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Tamaraw
Those animals grow as big as a Tamaraw:
- Asian elephant with 1.92 meter (6′ 4″)
- Reindeer with 2.23 meter (7′ 4″)
- Mountain zebra with 2.35 meter (7′ 9″)
- Onager with 2.25 meter (7′ 5″)
- Dwarf sperm whale with 2.16 meter (7′ 1″)
- Spinner dolphin with 2.13 meter (7′ 0″)
- South American sea lion with 2.11 meter (7′ 0″)
- Lion with 1.84 meter (6′ 1″)
- Weddell seal with 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)
- Spectacled bear with 1.77 meter (5′ 10″)