It is hard to guess what a Saiga antelope weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) on average weights 37.57 kg (82.82 lbs).
The Saiga antelope is from the family Bovidae (genus: Saiga). It is usually born with about 3.33 kg (7.34 lbs). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.16 meter (3′ 10″). Usually, Saiga antelopes have 2 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 saiga antelope (, Saiga tatarica) is a critically endangered antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast. During the Pleistocene, they also occurred in Beringian North America and the British Isles. Today, the dominant subspecies (S. t. tatarica) is only found in one region in Russia (in the Republic of Kalmykia and Astrakhan Oblast) and three areas in Kazakhstan (the Ural, Ustiurt, and Betpak-Dala populations). A portion of the Ustiurt population migrates south to Uzbekistan and occasionally Turkmenistan in winter. It is extinct in China and southwestern Mongolia. It was hunted extensively in Romania and Moldova until it became extinct in those regions at the end of the 18th century. The Mongolian subspecies (S. t. mongolica) is found only in western Mongolia.
Animals of the same family as a Saiga antelope
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest bringing 168.7 kilos (371.92 lbs) to the scale
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis bringing 110 kilos (242.51 lbs) to the scale
- Tibetan antelope bringing 32.66 kilos (72 lbs) to the scale
- Water buffalo bringing 924.25 kilos (2037.62 lbs) to the scale
- Hartebeest bringing 162.47 kilos (358.18 lbs) to the scale
- Roan antelope bringing 262.09 kilos (577.81 lbs) to the scale
- Bighorn sheep bringing 74.63 kilos (164.53 lbs) to the scale
- Pyrenean chamois bringing 30 kilos (66.14 lbs) to the scale
- East Caucasian tur bringing 57.5 kilos (126.77 lbs) to the scale
- Steenbok bringing 11.64 kilos (25.66 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Saiga antelope
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Saiga tatarica:
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a weight of 41 kilos (90.39 lbs)
- Red kangaroo with a weight of 38.98 kilos (85.94 lbs)
- Harnessed bushbuck with a weight of 43.28 kilos (95.42 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a weight of 41.58 kilos (91.67 lbs)
- Vaquita with a weight of 43.11 kilos (95.04 lbs)
- Japanese serow with a weight of 42.6 kilos (93.92 lbs)
- Blackbuck with a weight of 36.1 kilos (79.59 lbs)
- Wolf with a weight of 33.38 kilos (73.59 lbs)
- Japanese serow with a weight of 43.03 kilos (94.86 lbs)
- Gerenuk with a weight of 38.65 kilos (85.21 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Saiga antelope
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Saiga antelope:
- Bornean bearded pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Capybara with a size of 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)
- Himalayan goral with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Indian muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Pronghorn with a size of 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Oribi with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Jentink’s duiker with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Pampas deer with a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Saiga antelope
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Saiga antelope:
- Jaguarundi
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
- Large Indian civet
- Layard’s palm squirrel
- Large treeshrew
- Japanese hare
- Zempoaltepec
- Wolverine
- Oecomys bicolor
- Bornean ferret-badger
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Saiga antelope
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Saiga antelope:
- European mink with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Beira (antelope) with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Four-horned antelope with an average maximal age of 10.75 years
- Fishing cat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Long-tailed porcupine with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Hispaniolan hutia with an average maximal age of 9.83 years
- Myotis vivesi with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Tammar wallaby with an average maximal age of 14 years