It is hard to guess what a Tibetan antelope weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii) on average weights 32.66 kg (71.99 lbs).
The Tibetan antelope is from the family Bovidae (genus: Pantholops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.83 meter (6′ 0″). Usually, Tibetan antelopes 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 Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) (Tibetan: གཙོད་, Wylie: gtsod, pronounced [tsǿ]; Chinese: 藏羚羊; pinyin: zànglíngyáng) is a medium-sized bovid native to the Tibetan plateau. Fewer than 150,000 mature individuals are left in the wild, but the population is currently thought to be increasing. In 1980s and 1990s, they had become endangered due to massive illegal poaching. They are hunted for their extremely soft, light and warm underfur which is usually obtained after death. This underfur, known as shahtoosh (a Persian word meaning “king of fine wools”), is used to weave luxury shawls. Shahtoosh shawls were traditionally given as wedding gifts in India and it takes the underfur of 3-5 adult antelopes to make one shawl. Despite strict controls on trade of shahtoosh products and CITES listing, there is still demand for these luxury items. Within India, shawls are worth $1,000-$5,000, internationally the price can reach as high as $20,000.
Animals of the same family as a Tibetan antelope
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Hirola bringing 79.13 kilos (174.45 lbs) to the scale
- European bison bringing 674.44 kilos (1486.88 lbs) to the scale
- Sitatunga bringing 75.28 kilos (165.96 lbs) to the scale
- American bison bringing 622.29 kilos (1371.91 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow-backed duiker bringing 61.65 kilos (135.91 lbs) to the scale
- Steenbok bringing 11.64 kilos (25.66 lbs) to the scale
- Salt’s dik-dik bringing 3.4 kilos (7.5 lbs) to the scale
- Nilgiri tahr bringing 73.94 kilos (163.01 lbs) to the scale
- Harnessed bushbuck bringing 43.28 kilos (95.42 lbs) to the scale
- Cuvier’s gazelle with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Tibetan antelope
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pantholops hodgsonii:
- Red goral with a weight of 28.68 kilos (63.23 lbs)
- Long-tailed goral with a weight of 27 kilos (59.52 lbs)
- Dibatag with a weight of 28.05 kilos (61.84 lbs)
- Springbok with a weight of 33.39 kilos (73.61 lbs)
- Goitered gazelle with a weight of 26.84 kilos (59.17 lbs)
- Red-fronted gazelle with a weight of 27 kilos (59.52 lbs)
- Snow leopard with a weight of 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs)
- Gerenuk with a weight of 38.65 kilos (85.21 lbs)
- Striped hyena with a weight of 35.09 kilos (77.36 lbs)
- Sheep with a weight of 37.47 kilos (82.61 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Tibetan antelope
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Tibetan antelope: