How big does a Argali get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Argali (Ovis ammon) reaches an average size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 15 years, they grow from 3.23 kg (7.12 lbs) to 113.67 kg (250.59 lbs). A Argali has 1 babies at once. The Argali (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 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:
- Klipspringer with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Red-flanked duiker with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Rhim gazelle with a size of 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Bighorn sheep with a size of 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Tibetan antelope with 1 babies per litter
- West Caucasian tur with 1 babies per litter
- Scimitar oryx with a size of 1.91 meter (6′ 4″)
- Abbott’s duiker with a size of 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- Lesser kudu with a size of 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
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:
- Dall sheep with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Subantarctic fur seal with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 4″)
- Llama with a size of 1.66 meter (5′ 6″)
- Sumatran serow with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Asian black bear with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Southern reedbuck with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Mountain goat with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Siberian roe deer with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Gerenuk with a size of 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Alpaca with a size of 1.72 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:
- Macleay’s dorcopsis
- Common eland
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey
- Swamp wallaby
- Spectral tarsier
- Greater mouse-deer
- Silver fruit-eating bat
- Little red flying fox
- Greater grison
- Sumatran serow
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Argali
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Argali:
- Small-toothed palm civet with an average maximal age of 15.83 years
- Long-tailed goral with an average maximal age of 13.17 years
- Hirola with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Black-mantled tamarin with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Jentink’s duiker with an average maximal age of 17.5 years
- Indian pangolin with an average maximal age of 13.5 years
- Llama with an average maximal age of 14.17 years
- North American porcupine with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Banded mongoose with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Common treeshrew with an average maximal age of 12.42 years
Animals with the same weight as a Argali
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ovis ammon:
- Amazon river dolphin with a weight of 121.22 kilos (267.24 lbs)
- Dusky dolphin with a weight of 127.25 kilos (280.54 lbs)
- Llama with a weight of 107.66 kilos (237.35 lbs)
- Schomburgk’s deer with a weight of 107.63 kilos (237.28 lbs)
- Guadalupe fur seal with a weight of 101.03 kilos (222.73 lbs)
- Reindeer with a weight of 108.73 kilos (239.71 lbs)
- Addax with a weight of 95.39 kilos (210.3 lbs)
- American black bear with a weight of 110.75 kilos (244.16 lbs)
- Antarctic fur seal with a weight of 96.6 kilos (212.97 lbs)
- Buru babirusa with a weight of 92.33 kilos (203.55 lbs)