It is hard to guess what a Himalayan goral weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus goral) on average weights 28.75 kg (63.38 lbs).
The Himalayan goral is from the family Bovidae (genus: Naemorhedus). It is usually born with about 2 kg (4.41 lbs). They can live for up to 17.58 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.06 meter (3′ 6″). Usually, Himalayan gorals 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 Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus goral) is a bovid species found across the Himalayas. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List because the population is thought to be declining significantly due to habitat loss hunting for meat.
Animals of the same family as a Himalayan goral
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Grey rhebok bringing 22.62 kilos (49.87 lbs) to the scale
- Tamaraw bringing 252.7 kilos (557.11 lbs) to the scale
- Anoa bringing 256 kilos (564.38 lbs) to the scale
- Takin bringing 292.76 kilos (645.42 lbs) to the scale
- Dorcas gazelle bringing 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs) to the scale
- Chinkara bringing 18.91 kilos (41.69 lbs) to the scale
- Lechwe bringing 88.02 kilos (194.05 lbs) to the scale
- Bluebuck bringing 150 kilos (330.69 lbs) to the scale
- Goa (antelope) bringing 23.13 kilos (50.99 lbs) to the scale
- Barbary sheep bringing 93.7 kilos (206.57 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Himalayan goral
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Naemorhedus goral:
- Red goral with a weight of 28.68 kilos (63.23 lbs)
- Western grey kangaroo with a weight of 25.58 kilos (56.39 lbs)
- Goitered gazelle with a weight of 26.84 kilos (59.17 lbs)
- Long-tailed goral with a weight of 27 kilos (59.52 lbs)
- Common wallaroo with a weight of 25.99 kilos (57.3 lbs)
- Goa (antelope) with a weight of 23.13 kilos (50.99 lbs)
- Dwarf blue sheep with a weight of 29.27 kilos (64.53 lbs)
- Maned wolf with a weight of 23.31 kilos (51.39 lbs)
- Red wolf with a weight of 26.7 kilos (58.86 lbs)
- Sea otter with a weight of 27.46 kilos (60.54 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Himalayan goral
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Himalayan goral:
- Harnessed bushbuck with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Goa (antelope) with a size of 98 cm (3′ 3″)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 85.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Pampas deer with a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Roan antelope with a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Ethiopian wolf with a size of 94.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Zebra duiker with a size of 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Sika deer with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Goitered gazelle with a size of 95.8 cm (3′ 2″)
- Common wombat with a size of 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Himalayan goral
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Himalayan goral:
- Crested mona monkey
- Black-headed spider monkey
- Guianan squirrel monkey
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel
- Long-legged bat
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Southern African vlei rat
- Mediterranean monk seal
- Common vampire bat
- Common ringtail possum
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Himalayan goral
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Himalayan goral:
- Giant forest hog with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Gray fox with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Red river hog with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Yellow mongoose with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with an average maximal age of 19.75 years
- Barbary sheep with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Maned wolf with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Black-crested Sumatran langur with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Egyptian mongoose with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Thorold’s deer with an average maximal age of 18 years