How big does a Bharal get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Bharal (Pseudois nayaur) reaches an average size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 24 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 52.16 kg (114.98 lbs). A Bharal has 1 babies at once. The Bharal (genus: Pseudois) 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 bharal (Pseudois nayaur), also called the Helan Shan blue sheep, Chinese blue sheep, Himalayan blue sheep or naur, is a caprid found in Bhutan, Gansu, the high Himalayas of India, Inner Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Ningxia, Pakistan, Sichuan and Tibet. The Helan Mountains of Ningxia has the highest concentration of bharal in the world, with 15 bharals per square kilometer and 30,000 in total. Its native names include yanyang (岩羊) in Mandarin, bharal, barhal, bharar and bharut in Hindi, na or sna in Tibetan and Ladakh, nabo in Spitian, naur in Nepali and na or gnao in Bhutan.The bharal was also the focus of George Schaller’s and Peter Matthiessen’s expedition to Nepal in 1973. Their personal experiences are well documented by Matthiessen in his book, The Snow Leopard. The bharal is a major food of the snow leopard.
Animals of the same family as a Bharal
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Peters’s duiker with a size of 1.02 meter (3′ 4″)
- Argali with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Topi with an average maximal age of 12.5 years
- West Caucasian tur with 1 babies per litter
- Arabian tahr with a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Zebra duiker with a size of 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Grey rhebok with 1 babies per litter
- Red hartebeest with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- East African oryx with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Bighorn sheep with a size of 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
Animals with the same size as a Bharal
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bharal:
- Guanaco with a size of 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Oribi with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Arabian tahr with a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Maned wolf with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Dama gazelle with a size of 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Himalayan goral with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Dall sheep with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Capybara with a size of 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)
- Pampas deer with a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Asian black bear with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bharal
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Bharal:
- Red-faced spider monkey
- California mouse
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat
- Northern glider
- Defua rat
- Ring-tailed vontsira
- Heart-nosed bat
- Mountain cuscus
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bharal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bharal:
- Jaguar with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Platypus with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Blue monkey with an average maximal age of 27.08 years
- Golden lion tamarin with an average maximal age of 24.75 years
- Goat with an average maximal age of 20.75 years
- Waterbuck with an average maximal age of 19.92 years
- East Caucasian tur with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Kit fox with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Sunda slow loris with an average maximal age of 26.5 years
- Leopard seal with an average maximal age of 26 years
Animals with the same weight as a Bharal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudois nayaur:
- Impala with a weight of 52.45 kilos (115.63 lbs)
- Chimpanzee with a weight of 45.03 kilos (99.27 lbs)
- Vaquita with a weight of 43.11 kilos (95.04 lbs)
- Bornean orangutan with a weight of 52.97 kilos (116.78 lbs)
- Leopard with a weight of 52.4 kilos (115.52 lbs)
- Harnessed bushbuck with a weight of 43.28 kilos (95.42 lbs)
- Pronghorn with a weight of 47.18 kilos (104.01 lbs)
- Southern reedbuck with a weight of 57.94 kilos (127.74 lbs)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a weight of 48.5 kilos (106.92 lbs)
- Bawean deer with a weight of 55 kilos (121.25 lbs)