Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Artiodactyla > Bovidae > Capra > Capra caucasicaCapra caucasica (West Caucasian tur)The West Caucasian tur (Capra caucasica syn Capra caucasica caucasica) is a mountain-dwelling goat-antelope found only in the western half of the Caucasus Mountains range. West Caucasian turs stand up to 1 m (3.3 ft) tall at the shoulder and weigh around 65 kg (143 lb). They have large but narrow bodies and short legs. West Caucasian turs have a chestnut coat with a yellow underbelly and darker legs. Their horns are scimitar-shaped and heavily ridged. In males, these horns are around 70 cm (28 in), while in females they are much smaller. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 4.45 EDGE Score: 3.78 |
Adult Weight [1] | 154.324 lbs (70.00 kg) | Birth Weight [1] | 8.488 lbs (3.85 kg) | Male Weight [3] | 165.348 lbs (75.00 kg) | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Diet [2] | Herbivore | Diet - Plants [2] | 100 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 100 % | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Female Maturity [3] | 2 years 5 months | Male Maturity [3] | 2 years 11 months | ![](/img/transp.gif) | Gestation [1] | 5 months 7 days | Litter Size [1] | 1 | Litters / Year [3] | 1 | Maximum Longevity [1] | 19 years | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 5.412 feet (165 cm) |
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Caucasus mixed forests |
Georgia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Armenia |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Caucasus |
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Turkey |
Yes |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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