🐃Chamois
Gemsen (Rupicapra rupicapra) er et skedehornet pattedyr, der er hjemmehørende i bjerge i Europa og vestlige Asien, men desuden er indført til New Zealand og Argentina. Den kendes på de små tætsiddende, krogformede horn og færdes ofte på stejlt terræn. Det er yderst sky og vagtsomme dyr.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.
- Body mass
- 35 kg
- Body length
- 1.3 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 22 years
Everything we know about the Chamois
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass35 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 38 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length1.3 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass118 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan22 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 18 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length9.99 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity1.8 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation150 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 122 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 / mixedestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range2.65 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l35 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Chamois yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyBovidae
- ›genusRupicapra
- ›speciesRupicapra rupicapra
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- subfamilyCaprinae
- genusRupicapra
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
- genusRupicapra
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