It is hard to guess what a Iberian ibex weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) on average weights 60.55 kg (133.49 lbs).
The Iberian ibex is from the family Bovidae (genus: Capra). They can live for up to 16 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). Usually, Iberian ibexs have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Iberian ibex, Spanish ibex, Spanish wild goat, or Iberian wild goat (Capra pyrenaica) is a species of ibex with four subspecies. Of these, two can still be found on the Iberian Peninsula, but the remaining two are now extinct. The Portuguese subspecies became extinct in 1892 and the Pyrenean subspecies became extinct in 2000. An ongoing project to clone to the Pyrenean subspecies resulted in one clone being born alive in July 2003. This is the first taxon to become “un-extinct”, although the clone died a few minutes after birth due to physical defects in lungs.
Animals of the same family as a Iberian ibex
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Red goral bringing 28.68 kilos (63.23 lbs) to the scale
- Scimitar oryx bringing 198.4 kilos (437.4 lbs) to the scale
- Saola bringing 97.84 kilos (215.7 lbs) to the scale
- Bay duiker bringing 20 kilos (44.09 lbs) to the scale
- Jentink’s duiker bringing 68 kilos (149.91 lbs) to the scale
- Maxwell’s duiker bringing 8.44 kilos (18.61 lbs) to the scale
- Argali bringing 113.67 kilos (250.6 lbs) to the scale
- Steenbok bringing 11.64 kilos (25.66 lbs) to the scale
- Japanese serow bringing 43.03 kilos (94.86 lbs) to the scale
- Thomson’s gazelle bringing 22.91 kilos (50.51 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Iberian ibex
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Capra pyrenaica:
- Spotted hyena with a weight of 63.69 kilos (140.41 lbs)
- Abbott’s duiker with a weight of 56.68 kilos (124.96 lbs)
- Spinner dolphin with a weight of 50.5 kilos (111.33 lbs)
- Celebes warty pig with a weight of 53.46 kilos (117.86 lbs)
- Grant’s gazelle with a weight of 55 kilos (121.25 lbs)
- Hector’s dolphin with a weight of 50 kilos (110.23 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 66.38 kilos (146.34 lbs)
- Bornean orangutan with a weight of 52.97 kilos (116.78 lbs)
- Sun bear with a weight of 57.04 kilos (125.75 lbs)
- Philippine deer with a weight of 49.46 kilos (109.04 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Iberian ibex
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Iberian ibex:
- Galápagos fur seal with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Giant panda with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Philippine warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Mountain goat with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- White-lipped peccary with a size of 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a size of 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Pampas deer with a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Leopard with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 1 meter (3′ 4″)
- Jentink’s duiker with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Iberian ibex
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Iberian ibex:
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey
- Japanese serow
- Bushy-tailed mongoose
- Dall sheep
- Mongalla free-tailed bat
- Goa (antelope)
- Evening bat
- Greater dog-like bat
- Killer whale
- Waterbuck
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Iberian ibex
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Iberian ibex:
- Golden jackal with an average maximal age of 16 years
- American marten with an average maximal age of 19 years
- Crab-eating mongoose with an average maximal age of 13.33 years
- Senegal bushbaby with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Santarem marmoset with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Desert warthog with an average maximal age of 18.75 years
- Sheep with an average maximal age of 19.17 years
- L’Hoest’s monkey with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Bobak marmot with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Red giant flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 16 years