How big does a Gayal get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Gayal (Bos frontalis) reaches an average size of 2.7 meter (8′ 11″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 26.17 years, they grow from 23.04 kg (50.79 lbs) to 800.07 kg (1763.85 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Gayals have 1 babies about 1 times per year. The Gayal (genus: Bos) 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 gayal (Bos frontalis), also known as mithun in Myanmar, is a large domestic bovine distributed in Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and in Yunnan, China.
Animals of the same family as a Gayal
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Bontebok with 1 babies per litter
- Royal antelope with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Anoa with a size of 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Goat with 1 babies per litter
- Red forest duiker with a size of 78.7 cm (2′ 7″)
- Black wildebeest with a size of 1.82 meter (6′ 0″)
- Red gazelle bringing 40 kilos (88.18 lbs) to the scale
- Giant eland with a size of 2.52 meter (8′ 4″)
- Hartebeest with a size of 1.98 meter (6′ 6″)
- Alpine ibex with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Gayal
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gayal:
- Weddell seal with a size of 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)
- Caribbean monk seal with a size of 2.29 meter (7′ 7″)
- Dwarf sperm whale with a size of 2.16 meter (7′ 2″)
- African buffalo with a size of 2.53 meter (8′ 4″)
- Bearded seal with a size of 2.3 meter (7′ 7″)
- Steller sea lion with a size of 2.7 meter (8′ 11″)
- Striped dolphin with a size of 2.3 meter (7′ 7″)
- European bison with a size of 2.9 meter (9′ 7″)
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with a size of 2.21 meter (7′ 3″)
- Moose with a size of 2.83 meter (9′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gayal
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Gayal:
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel
- Desert rat-kangaroo
- Black-tailed hutia
- Aberdare mole shrew
- Large mosaic-tailed rat
- Thomas’s fruit-eating bat
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat
- Banana pipistrelle
- Brown long-eared bat
- American bison
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Gayal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Gayal:
- Lesser horseshoe bat with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey with an average maximal age of 27.25 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with an average maximal age of 22.83 years
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin with an average maximal age of 27 years
- California sea lion with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Bechstein’s bat with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Platypus with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Monk saki with an average maximal age of 24.58 years
- Aardwolf with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Brown-mantled tamarin with an average maximal age of 24.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Gayal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bos frontalis:
- Long-finned pilot whale with a weight of 800 kilos (1763.7 lbs)
- Northern giraffe with a weight of 959.83 kilos (2116.06 lbs)
- Narwhal with a weight of 938.06 kilos (2068.07 lbs)
- Water buffalo with a weight of 924.25 kilos (2037.62 lbs)
- European bison with a weight of 674.44 kilos (1486.88 lbs)
- Short-finned pilot whale with a weight of 726 kilos (1600.55 lbs)
- Giant eland with a weight of 644.51 kilos (1420.9 lbs)
- Kouprey with a weight of 788.66 kilos (1738.7 lbs)