How big does a Dall sheep get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) reaches an average size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 16 years, they grow from 3.5 kg (7.71 lbs) to 70 kg (154.31 lbs). A Dall sheep has 1 babies at once. The Dall sheep (genus: Ovis) 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 Dall sheep, also known as the thinhorn sheep, (Ovis dalli) is a species of wild sheep native to northwestern North America, ranging from white to slate brown in colour and having curved, yellowish-brown horns. The two subspecies are the nominate Dall sheep or Dall’s sheep and the more southern subspecies, Stone sheep (also spelled Stone’s sheep) (O. d. stonei), which is a slate brown with some white patches on the rump and inside the hind legs.
Animals of the same family as a Dall sheep
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Goitered gazelle with a size of 95.8 cm (3′ 2″)
- Anoa with a size of 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Aders’s duiker with a size of 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Sable antelope with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- Günther’s dik-dik with a size of 61.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Nile lechwe with an average maximal age of 18.67 years
- Blackbuck with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Lechwe with 1 babies per litter
- Lesser kudu with a size of 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
- Chinkara bringing 18.91 kilos (41.69 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Dall sheep
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Dall sheep:
- Ringed seal with a size of 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Sheep with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Spotted hyena with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Guanaco with a size of 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Bornean bearded pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Saiga antelope with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Jaguar with a size of 1.33 meter (4′ 5″)
- Javan rusa with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Gemsbok with a size of 1.62 meter (5′ 4″)
- Brown bear with a size of 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Dall sheep
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Dall sheep:
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat
- Bulmer’s fruit bat
- Rhinolophus simplex
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Maroon leaf monkey
- Red fruit bat
- Felou gundi
- Large mosaic-tailed rat
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat
- Black-spotted cuscus
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Dall sheep
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Dall sheep:
- Nile lechwe with an average maximal age of 18.67 years
- Hog badger with an average maximal age of 13.92 years
- Roe deer with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Fennec fox with an average maximal age of 14.58 years
- Common bent-wing bat with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Klipspringer with an average maximal age of 17.75 years
- Red panda with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Desert warthog with an average maximal age of 18.75 years
- Clouded leopard with an average maximal age of 17 years
Animals with the same weight as a Dall sheep
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ovis dalli:
- Bighorn sheep with a weight of 74.63 kilos (164.53 lbs)
- Jentink’s duiker with a weight of 68 kilos (149.91 lbs)
- Alpine ibex with a weight of 69.42 kilos (153.04 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 75.99 kilos (167.53 lbs)
- Spotted hyena with a weight of 63.69 kilos (140.41 lbs)
- Iberian ibex with a weight of 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs)
- Himalayan tahr with a weight of 68.26 kilos (150.49 lbs)
- Chital with a weight of 69.5 kilos (153.22 lbs)
- Dama gazelle with a weight of 70.4 kilos (155.21 lbs)
- Spectacled porpoise with a weight of 65 kilos (143.3 lbs)