🐃Bighorn sheep
Het dikhoornschaap (Ovis canadensis) is een wild schaap uit de familie der holhoornigen (Bovidae). Het dier komt voor in de Rocky Mountains en andere berggebieden in het westen van Noord-Amerika. Het dankt zijn naam aan de grote gekromde hoorns van de rammen. De soort is verwant aan het sneeuwschaap (Ovis nivicola) en om deze reden wordt deze Siberische schapensoort door sommigen als ondersoort van het dikhoornschaap gezien.
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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
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- 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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