Animals With Big Long Horns

These vulnerable species have horns that go up to 85 cms and a full 360-degree curve when they reach maturity.

Animals with big long horns. Goes by many nicknames Markhor aka Shakhawat is a type of wild goat with very long horns as you can see. A pair of horns might weigh up to 14 kg. The Texas Longhorn is a breed of cattle known for its characteristic horns which can extend to over 100 inches 254 m tip to tip for cows and bulls.

Only the bulls have horns so its easy to distinguish male kudu from female kudu. Capra Ibex horns. Males tend to have thicker horns while the females have longer and thinner horns.

Biologist Ted Stankowich has determined that there are up to 82 species of female bovids that have horns. Some of the longest animal horns ever measured and recorded were 180 centimetres in length. They feed on insects small invertebrates small birds mammals and reptiles and desert turtles go on the menu too sometimes.

Horns are distinct from antlers which are not permanent. Oryx also uses their long and sharp horns to defend against predators. They are the national animal of Pakistan and is sometimes known as the screw-horn goat.

In mammals true horns are found mainly among the ruminant artiodactyls in the families Antilocapridae pronghorn and Bovidae cattle goats antelope etc. Their horns reach up to a length of 30 inches. A majority of a rhinoceross horn is made of keratin the same protein that makes up our hair and fingernails.

These goats are one of the endangered and largest species of wild goat found across Western and Central Asia. Most species of Rhinos actually have two horns but the Indian Rhinoceros has one single horn that can grow up to over 3ft long. The mouflon is often coined to be the father of all modern-day domestic sheep.