It is hard to guess what a Bharal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bharal (Pseudois nayaur) on average weights 52.16 kg (114.98 lbs).
The Bharal is from the family Bovidae (genus: Pseudois). They can live for up to 24 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.3 meter (4′ 4″). Usually, Bharals 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 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:
- Gerenuk bringing 38.65 kilos (85.21 lbs) to the scale
- Arabian gazelle bringing 18.06 kilos (39.82 lbs) to the scale
- Abbott’s duiker bringing 56.68 kilos (124.96 lbs) to the scale
- Red-fronted gazelle bringing 27 kilos (59.52 lbs) to the scale
- Nile lechwe bringing 85.5 kilos (188.5 lbs) to the scale
- Goa (antelope) bringing 23.13 kilos (50.99 lbs) to the scale
- Gemsbok bringing 187.6 kilos (413.59 lbs) to the scale
- Arabian tahr bringing 22.06 kilos (48.63 lbs) to the scale
- Springbok bringing 33.39 kilos (73.61 lbs) to the scale
- Bluebuck bringing 150 kilos (330.69 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Bharal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudois nayaur:
- Visayan spotted deer with a weight of 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs)
- Japanese serow with a weight of 43.03 kilos (94.86 lbs)
- Urial with a weight of 51.8 kilos (114.2 lbs)
- Hector’s dolphin with a weight of 50 kilos (110.23 lbs)
- Brown hyena with a weight of 42.98 kilos (94.75 lbs)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a weight of 48.5 kilos (106.92 lbs)
- Capybara with a weight of 47.5 kilos (104.72 lbs)
- Homo sapiens with a weight of 58.62 kilos (129.23 lbs)
- Cougar with a weight of 53.93 kilos (118.9 lbs)
- Bornean orangutan with a weight of 52.97 kilos (116.78 lbs)
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:
- Baikal seal with a size of 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Red wolf with a size of 1.08 meter (3′ 7″)
- Sun bear with a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Nilgiri tahr with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Springbok with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Puku with a size of 1.34 meter (4′ 5″)
- Saiga antelope with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Pampas deer with a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 1″)
- Sheep with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Ribbon seal with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
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:
- Klipspringer
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat
- Noack’s roundleaf bat
- Koslov’s pika
- Siamang
- Giant armadillo
- Brown’s pademelon
- Père David’s deer
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Japanese serow
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bharal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bharal:
- Bontebok with an average maximal age of 21.67 years
- American badger with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Moose with an average maximal age of 27 years
- Guatemalan black howler with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Crested mona monkey with an average maximal age of 24.08 years
- Red-shanked douc with an average maximal age of 25 years
- South Asian river dolphin with an average maximal age of 28 years
- Purple-faced langur with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Hector’s dolphin with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Cattle with an average maximal age of 20 years