🐃Dall sheep
Amerikanskt snöfår eller vitt snöfår (Ovis dalli) är en art i släktet får som förekommer i nordvästra Nordamerika. Det vetenskapliga namnet dalli syftar på den amerikanska naturforskaren William Healey Dall.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 70 kg
- Body length
- 1.57 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 24 years
Everything we know about the Dall sheep
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass70 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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Figures vary
- 73 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length1.57 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan24 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 20 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length6.4 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.0 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation175 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 173 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 range10 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.43 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l70 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 Dall sheep yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyBovidae
- ›genusOvis
- ›speciesOvis dalli
- 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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