It is hard to guess what a Arabian tahr weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Arabian tahr (Hemitragus jayakari) on average weights 22.06 kg (48.62 lbs).
The Arabian tahr is from the family Bovidae (genus: Hemitragus). They can live for up to 14 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.08 meter (3′ 7″). Usually, Arabian tahrs have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The Arabian tahr (Arabitragus jayakari) is a species of tahr native to eastern Arabia. Until recently, it was placed in the genus Hemitragus, but genetic evidence supports its removal to a separate monotypic genus.The Arabian tahr is the smallest species of tahr. The animal is of stocky build with backward-arching horns in both sexes. Males are much more robust than females. Their coats consist of a long, reddish-brown hair, with a dark stripe running down the back. Males possess the most impressive manes which extend right down the back and grow longer, based on the age. In the oldest males the muzzle darkens to black and the eye stripes also darken. As with most mountain goats and sheep, they have rubber-like hooves to provide balance and traction on the steep, rocky slopes.
Animals of the same family as a Arabian tahr
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Salt’s dik-dik bringing 3.4 kilos (7.5 lbs) to the scale
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle bringing 48.5 kilos (106.92 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow-backed duiker bringing 61.65 kilos (135.91 lbs) to the scale
- Common duiker bringing 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs) to the scale
- Cattle bringing 615.82 kilos (1357.65 lbs) to the scale
- Günther’s dik-dik bringing 4.61 kilos (10.16 lbs) to the scale
- Southern reedbuck bringing 57.94 kilos (127.74 lbs) to the scale
- Grant’s gazelle bringing 55.46 kilos (122.27 lbs) to the scale
- Four-horned antelope bringing 19.19 kilos (42.31 lbs) to the scale
- Royal antelope bringing 3.9 kilos (8.6 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Arabian tahr
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hemitragus jayakari:
- Eurasian beaver with a weight of 19 kilos (41.89 lbs)
- Little red brocket with a weight of 21.05 kilos (46.41 lbs)
- Rhim gazelle with a weight of 24.47 kilos (53.95 lbs)
- Cameroon clawless otter with a weight of 21.6 kilos (47.62 lbs)
- Thomson’s gazelle with a weight of 22.91 kilos (50.51 lbs)
- Arabian gazelle with a weight of 18.06 kilos (39.82 lbs)
- Goa (antelope) with a weight of 23.13 kilos (50.99 lbs)
- Red brocket with a weight of 20.42 kilos (45.02 lbs)
- Mountain gazelle with a weight of 21.25 kilos (46.85 lbs)
- African clawless otter with a weight of 19.16 kilos (42.24 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Arabian tahr
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Arabian tahr:
- Wolf with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Pampas deer with a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Rhim gazelle with a size of 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Falkland Islands wolf with a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Proserpine rock-wallaby with a size of 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Alpine musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Javan warty pig with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Baikal seal with a size of 1.27 meter (4′ 3″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a size of 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Peters’s duiker with a size of 1.02 meter (3′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Arabian tahr
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Arabian tahr:
- Common duiker
- Large mosaic-tailed rat
- Telefomin cuscus
- Indian flying fox
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey
- Malagasy civet
- Black-striped wallaby
- Underwood’s bonneted bat
- Big brown bat
- Kolan vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Arabian tahr
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Arabian tahr:
- Crab-eating fox with an average maximal age of 11.5 years
- Desmarest’s hutia with an average maximal age of 11.33 years
- Thylacine with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Red-handed tamarin with an average maximal age of 15.33 years
- South African springhare with an average maximal age of 14.5 years
- Black-footed cat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Urial with an average maximal age of 13.75 years
- Guinea pig with an average maximal age of 14.75 years
- Greater mouse-deer with an average maximal age of 16.25 years
- White-tailed mongoose with an average maximal age of 12 years