It is hard to guess what a Bluebuck weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bluebuck (Hippotragus leucophaeus) on average weights 150 kg (330.69 lbs).
The Bluebuck is from the family Bovidae (genus: Hippotragus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.15 meter (3′ 10″).
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 bluebuck (Afrikaans: bloubok ) or blue antelope (Hippotragus leucophaeus) is an extinct species of antelope that lived in South Africa until around 1800. It is congeneric with the roan antelope and sable antelope (belonging in the genus Hippotragus), but was smaller than either. It was sometimes considered a subspecies of the roan antelope, but a genetic study has confirmed it as a distinct species.The largest mounted bluebuck specimen is 119 centimetres (47 in) tall at the withers. Its horns measure 56.5 centimetres (22.2 in) along the curve. The coat was a uniform bluish-grey, with a pale whitish belly. The forehead was brown, darker than the face. Its mane was not as developed as in the roan and sable antelopes; its ears were shorter and blunter, not tipped with black; and it had a darker tail tuft and smaller teeth. It also lacked the contrasting black and white patterns seen on the heads of its relatives. The bluebuck was a grazer, and may have calved where rainfall, and thus the availability of grasses, would peak. The bluebuck was confined to the southwestern Cape when encountered by Europeans, but fossil evidence and rock paintings show that it originally had a larger distribution.Europeans encountered the bluebuck in the 17th century, but it was already uncommon by then, perhaps due to its preferred grassland habitat having been reduced to a 4,300-square-kilometre (1,700 sq mi) range, mainly along the southern coast of South Africa. Sea level changes during the early Holocene may also have contributed to its decline by disrupting the population. The first published mention of the bluebuck is from 1681, and few descriptions of the animal were written while it existed. The few 18th-century illustrations appear to have been based on stuffed specimens. Hunted by European settlers, the bluebuck became extinct around 1800; it was the first large African mammal to face extinction in historical times, followed by the quagga in 1883. Only four mounted specimens remain, in museums in Leiden, Stockholm, Vienna, and Paris, along with skulls and horns in various museums.
Animals of the same family as a Bluebuck
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Barbary sheep bringing 93.7 kilos (206.57 lbs) to the scale
- Giant eland bringing 644.51 kilos (1420.9 lbs) to the scale
- Gayal bringing 800.07 kilos (1763.85 lbs) to the scale
- Thomson’s gazelle bringing 22.6 kilos (49.82 lbs) to the scale
- Arabian gazelle bringing 18.06 kilos (39.82 lbs) to the scale
- Silver dik-dik bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Common duiker bringing 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs) to the scale
- Klipspringer bringing 13.46 kilos (29.67 lbs) to the scale
- Water buffalo bringing 924.25 kilos (2037.62 lbs) to the scale
- Common eland bringing 561.8 kilos (1238.56 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Bluebuck
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hippotragus leucophaeus:
- Harp seal with a weight of 132 kilos (291.01 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer with a weight of 161 kilos (354.94 lbs)
- Hartebeest with a weight of 162.47 kilos (358.18 lbs)
- Sambar deer with a weight of 177.52 kilos (391.36 lbs)
- Pygmy killer whale with a weight of 170 kilos (374.79 lbs)
- Tiger with a weight of 162.28 kilos (357.77 lbs)
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest with a weight of 168.7 kilos (371.92 lbs)
- Peale’s dolphin with a weight of 120 kilos (264.55 lbs)
- Dusky dolphin with a weight of 127.25 kilos (280.54 lbs)
- South American tapir with a weight of 167.75 kilos (369.83 lbs)