It is hard to guess what a Argali weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Argali (Ovis ammon) on average weights 113.67 kg (250.59 lbs).
The Argali is from the family Bovidae (genus: Ovis). It is usually born with about 3.23 kg (7.12 lbs). They can live for up to 15 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.59 meter (5′ 3″). Usually, Argalis 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 argali, or the mountain sheep (species Ovis ammon) is a wild sheep that roams the highlands of western East Asia and neighboring regions (Himalaya, Tibet, Altay).
Animals of the same family as a Argali
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Mountain nyala bringing 215 kilos (473.99 lbs) to the scale
- Red-fronted gazelle bringing 27 kilos (59.52 lbs) to the scale
- Soemmerring’s gazelle bringing 41.58 kilos (91.67 lbs) to the scale
- Goitered gazelle bringing 26.84 kilos (59.17 lbs) to the scale
- Klipspringer bringing 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs) to the scale
- Cape grysbok bringing 10.47 kilos (23.08 lbs) to the scale
- Abbott’s duiker bringing 56.68 kilos (124.96 lbs) to the scale
- East African oryx bringing 200.58 kilos (442.2 lbs) to the scale
- Bates’s pygmy antelope bringing 2.96 kilos (6.53 lbs) to the scale
- Royal antelope bringing 3.9 kilos (8.6 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Argali
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ovis ammon:
- Dusky dolphin with a weight of 127.25 kilos (280.54 lbs)
- Lesser kudu with a weight of 93.81 kilos (206.82 lbs)
- Guanaco with a weight of 95.5 kilos (210.54 lbs)
- Atlantic spotted dolphin with a weight of 110 kilos (242.51 lbs)
- Marsh deer with a weight of 111.76 kilos (246.39 lbs)
- Eld’s deer with a weight of 95.47 kilos (210.48 lbs)
- Subantarctic fur seal with a weight of 92.21 kilos (203.29 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 93.49 kilos (206.11 lbs)
- Reindeer with a weight of 108.73 kilos (239.71 lbs)
- Harp seal with a weight of 132 kilos (291.01 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Argali
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Argali:
- Calamian deer with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Saola with a size of 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Barasingha with a size of 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Wild boar with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Red river hog with a size of 1.37 meter (4′ 6″)
- Cougar with a size of 1.4 meter (4′ 8″)
- Ringed seal with a size of 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Northern fur seal with a size of 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Guadalupe fur seal with a size of 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Argali
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Argali:
- Ringed seal
- Brown greater galago
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Greater mouse-eared bat
- Kob
- Bates’s pygmy antelope
- Thumbless bat
- Grandidier’s mongoose
- Livingstone’s fruit bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Argali
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Argali:
- Suni with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Black-backed jackal with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Harnessed bushbuck with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Water chevrotain with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Pygmy sperm whale with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Dall sheep with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Whiptail wallaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Silvery marmoset with an average maximal age of 16.75 years
- Blue duiker with an average maximal age of 12 years