What is the maximal age a Urial reaches?
An adult Urial (Ovis vignei) usually gets as old as 13.75 years.
Urials are around 165 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 3.5 kg (7.71 lbs) and measure 2.37 meter (7′ 10″). As a member of the Bovidae family (genus: Ovis), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″).
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 urial (Ovis orientalis vignei group ), also known as the arkars or shapo, is a subspecies group of the wild sheep Ovis orientalis. Noticeable features are the reddish-brown long fur that fades during winter; males are characterized by a black ruff stretching from the neck to the chest and large horns. It is found in western central Asia. The other subspecies group of O. orientalis is the mouflon (Ovis orientalis orientalis group). The two groups have often been considered separate species.
Animals of the same family as a Urial
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Bovidae):
- Mongolian gazelle becoming 7 years old
- Red-fronted gazelle becoming 13.5 years old
- Siberian ibex becoming 22.25 years old
- Red goral becoming 18.25 years old
- Black wildebeest becoming 20 years old
- Rhim gazelle becoming 14 years old
- Bluebuck growing to a mass of 150 kgs (330.69 lbs)
- Oribi becoming 15.75 years old
- Hirola becoming 15.17 years old
- Cattle becoming 20 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Urial
With an average age of 13.75 years, Urial are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Red squirrel usually reaching 12 years
- Ring-tailed vontsira usually reaching 13.17 years
- African clawless otter usually reaching 11 years
- Bobak marmot usually reaching 15 years
- Hamlyn’s monkey usually reaching 13.5 years
- Gray fox usually reaching 15 years
- Thylacine usually reaching 13 years
- Malabar large-spotted civet usually reaching 14 years
- Harnessed bushbuck usually reaching 13 years
- Striped polecat usually reaching 13.33 years
Animals with the same number of babies Urial
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Bighorn sheep
- Sharpe’s grysbok
- Tibetan macaque
- Michoacan deer mouse
- African savanna hare
- Highland brush mouse
- Ring-tailed vontsira
- Prehensile-tailed hutia
- Micronomus
- Pemba flying fox
Weighting as much as Urial
A fully grown Urial reaches around 51.8 kg (114.2 lbs). So do these animals:
- Southern reedbuck weighting 57.94 kilos (127.74 lbs) on average
- Japanese serow weighting 43.03 kilos (94.86 lbs) on average
- Nubian ibex weighting 47.68 kilos (105.12 lbs) on average
- Vaquita weighting 43.11 kilos (95.04 lbs) on average
- Philippine deer weighting 49.46 kilos (109.04 lbs) on average
- East Caucasian tur weighting 57.5 kilos (126.77 lbs) on average
- Impala weighting 52.45 kilos (115.63 lbs) on average
- Visayan spotted deer weighting 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs) on average
- Sika deer weighting 53 kilos (116.84 lbs) on average
- Philippine deer weighting 49.1 kilos (108.25 lbs) on average