How big does a Mountain goat get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) reaches an average size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 19.17 years, they grow from 3.08 kg (6.79 lbs) to 71.84 kg (158.37 lbs). A Mountain goat has 1 babies at once. The Mountain goat (genus: Oreamnos) is a member of the family Bovidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus), also known as the Rocky Mountain goat, is a hoofed mammal endemic to North America. A subalpine to alpine species, it is a sure-footed climber commonly seen on cliffs and ice.Despite its vernacular name, it is not a member of Capra, the genus that includes all other goats, such as the wild goat, Capra aegagrus, from which the domestic goat is derived. The mountain goat was used as the emblem of the Great Northern Railway until merger with Burlington Northern in 1970.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain goat
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Long-tailed goral with an average maximal age of 13.17 years
- European bison with a size of 2.9 meter (9′ 7″)
- Goitered gazelle with a size of 95.8 cm (3′ 2″)
- Common tsessebe with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Sitatunga with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Red-flanked duiker with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- American bison with a size of 2.85 meter (9′ 5″)
- Saola with a size of 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Banteng with a size of 2.08 meter (6′ 10″)
Animals with the same size as a Mountain goat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mountain goat:
- Guanaco with a size of 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Brown hyena with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Ribbon seal with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Abbott’s duiker with a size of 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- Nilgiri tahr with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Leopard with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Barbary sheep with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Wild boar with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Siberian roe deer with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mountain goat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Mountain goat:
- White-bellied free-tailed bat
- Mountain paca
- Daubenton’s bat
- Tana River red colobus
- Bactrian camel
- Bunyoro rabbit
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Chestnut-bellied titi
- Reeves’s muntjac
- Pygmy ringtail possum
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Mountain goat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Mountain goat:
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Brown hyena with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Desert warthog with an average maximal age of 18.75 years
- Bay duiker with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Brown greater galago with an average maximal age of 18.75 years
- Roan antelope with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Barbary macaque with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with an average maximal age of 19.75 years
- Plains zebra with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Dama gazelle with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain goat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oreamnos americanus:
- Caspian seal with a weight of 62.3 kilos (137.35 lbs)
- Short-beaked common dolphin with a weight of 79.29 kilos (174.8 lbs)
- Wild boar with a weight of 84.49 kilos (186.27 lbs)
- Arabian oryx with a weight of 75.43 kilos (166.29 lbs)
- Himalayan tahr with a weight of 68.26 kilos (150.49 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 66.38 kilos (146.34 lbs)
- Spectacled porpoise with a weight of 65 kilos (143.3 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 65.8 kilos (145.06 lbs)
- Hirola with a weight of 78.6 kilos (173.28 lbs)
- Southern reedbuck with a weight of 57.94 kilos (127.74 lbs)