How big does a Himalayan goral get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus goral) reaches an average size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 17.58 years, they grow from 2 kg (4.41 lbs) to 28.75 kg (63.38 lbs). A Himalayan goral has 1 babies at once. The Himalayan goral (genus: Naemorhedus) 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 Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus goral) is a bovid species found across the Himalayas. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List because the population is thought to be declining significantly due to habitat loss hunting for meat.
Animals of the same family as a Himalayan goral
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- East Caucasian tur with 1 babies per litter
- Arabian tahr with a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a size of 84.6 cm (2′ 10″)
- Black wildebeest with a size of 1.82 meter (6′ 0″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Barbary sheep with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Mountain goat with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Common duiker with a size of 96.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Nile lechwe with an average maximal age of 18.67 years
- Muskox with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Himalayan goral
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Himalayan goral:
- Maned wolf with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Gray brocket with a size of 92.3 cm (3′ 1″)
- Falkland Islands wolf with a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Iberian lynx with a size of 96.3 cm (3′ 2″)
- Dwarf musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Four-horned antelope with a size of 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Saiga antelope with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Alpine musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Bornean yellow muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Peters’s duiker with a size of 1.02 meter (3′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Himalayan goral
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Himalayan goral:
- Serotine bat
- Gray-backed sportive lemur
- Hoffmanns’s titi
- Dormer’s bat
- Antilopine kangaroo
- Lesser Asiatic yellow bat
- Black-tailed hutia
- Mountain cuscus
- Black-footed mongoose
- Bactrian camel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Himalayan goral
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Himalayan goral:
- Dorcas gazelle with an average maximal age of 17.42 years
- Gray mouse lemur with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Common tsessebe with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Western grey kangaroo with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Northern bat with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Fringed myotis with an average maximal age of 18.25 years
- Llama with an average maximal age of 14.17 years
- Keen’s myotis with an average maximal age of 18.5 years
- Arabian oryx with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with an average maximal age of 21 years
Animals with the same weight as a Himalayan goral
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Naemorhedus goral:
- Snow leopard with a weight of 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs)
- Przewalski’s gazelle with a weight of 27.5 kilos (60.63 lbs)
- Maned wolf with a weight of 23.31 kilos (51.39 lbs)
- Sea otter with a weight of 27.46 kilos (60.54 lbs)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with a weight of 26.18 kilos (57.72 lbs)
- Dibatag with a weight of 28.05 kilos (61.84 lbs)
- Goitered gazelle with a weight of 26.84 kilos (59.17 lbs)
- Pyrenean chamois with a weight of 30 kilos (66.14 lbs)
- Tibetan antelope with a weight of 32.66 kilos (72 lbs)
- Red goral with a weight of 28.68 kilos (63.23 lbs)