🐃Bighorn sheep
Bighornfår eller Tykhornsfår (latin: Ovis canadensis) er en af de to vildtlevende fårearter i Nordamerika. De er udbredt fra Alaska og Canada til Mexico. Den biologiske systematik er ikke ganske klar, men der regnes traditionelt med syv underarter, der forekommer i forskellige områder fra bjergegnene i Rocky Mountains til ørkenegnene i det sydvestlige USA. Nyere genetiske undersøgelser tyder dog på, at der reelt ikke kan skelnes mellem mere end 2-3 underarter, og at forskellene i pelsfarve og andre kendetegn, man bruger til at skelne underarterne fra hinanden blot er naturlig variation indenfor den samme underart. Fårene har deres navn efter deres horn, som især hos hanner (væddere) bliver særdeles kraftige, hvilket adskiller tykhornsfåret tydeligt fra den anden nordamerikanske fåreart, tyndhornsfåret (Ovis dalli).
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 69 kg
- Body length
- 1.68 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 24 years
Everything we know about the Bighorn sheep
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass69 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 70 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length1.68 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan24 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 21 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length7.21 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.1 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation180 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 180 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range19 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density1.48 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l69 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Bighorn sheep yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyBovidae
- ›genusOvis
- ›speciesOvis canadensis
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- subfamilyCaprinae
- genusOvis
All 16 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderRuminantia
- infraorderPecora
- familyBovidae
- subfamilyCaprinae
- genusOvis
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