It is hard to guess what a Bontebok weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus) on average weights 77.24 kg (170.29 lbs).
The Bontebok is from the family Bovidae (genus: Damaliscus). It is usually born with about 6.87 kg (15.15 lbs). They can live for up to 21.67 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.7 meter (5′ 7″). Usually, Bonteboks 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 bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus) is an antelope found in South Africa, Lesotho and Namibia. The bontebok has two subspecies; the bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus pygargus), occurring naturally in the Fynbos and Renosterveld areas of the Western Cape, and the blesbok (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi) occurring in the highveld.The bontebok is related to the common tsessebe.
Animals of the same family as a Bontebok
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Blue duiker bringing 4.9 kilos (10.8 lbs) to the scale
- West Caucasian tur bringing 60.73 kilos (133.89 lbs) to the scale
- Bighorn sheep bringing 74.63 kilos (164.53 lbs) to the scale
- Waterbuck bringing 203.2 kilos (447.98 lbs) to the scale
- Common duiker bringing 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs) to the scale
- Impala bringing 52.45 kilos (115.63 lbs) to the scale
- Hirola bringing 78.6 kilos (173.28 lbs) to the scale
- Sable antelope bringing 235.2 kilos (518.53 lbs) to the scale
- Four-horned antelope bringing 19.19 kilos (42.31 lbs) to the scale
- Speke’s gazelle bringing 20 kilos (44.09 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Bontebok
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Damaliscus pygargus:
- Dall sheep with a weight of 70 kilos (154.32 lbs)
- Spotted hyena with a weight of 63.69 kilos (140.41 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)
- Ringed seal with a weight of 70.96 kilos (156.44 lbs)
- Lechwe with a weight of 88.02 kilos (194.05 lbs)
- Dama gazelle with a weight of 70.4 kilos (155.21 lbs)
- Arabian oryx with a weight of 75.43 kilos (166.29 lbs)
- Nile lechwe with a weight of 85.5 kilos (188.5 lbs)
- Wild boar with a weight of 84.49 kilos (186.27 lbs)
- Nilgiri tahr with a weight of 73.94 kilos (163.01 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bontebok
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Bontebok:
- Coquerel’s sifaka
- Bonnet macaque
- Small dorcopsis
- Big-eared woolly bat
- Zanzibar bushbaby
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat
- Tufted deer
- Baikal seal
- Acuminate horseshoe bat
- Taruca
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bontebok
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bontebok:
- Gemsbok with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Potto with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Roan antelope with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Black bearded saki with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Western grey kangaroo with an average maximal age of 20 years
- South American sea lion with an average maximal age of 24.75 years
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 20.17 years
- White-tailed deer with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Verreaux’s sifaka with an average maximal age of 20.58 years
- Hartebeest with an average maximal age of 20 years