It is hard to guess what a Cape grysbok weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cape grysbok (Raphicerus melanotis) on average weights 10.47 kg (23.08 lbs).
The Cape grysbok is from the family Bovidae (genus: Raphicerus). They can live for up to 14 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 82.4 cm (2′ 9″).
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 Cape or southern grysbok (Raphicerus melanotis) is a small antelope that is endemic to the Western Cape region of South Africa between Albany and the Cederberg mountains.
Animals of the same family as a Cape grysbok
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Siberian ibex bringing 130 kilos (286.6 lbs) to the scale
- Hirola bringing 79.13 kilos (174.45 lbs) to the scale
- Lechwe bringing 88.02 kilos (194.05 lbs) to the scale
- Grant’s gazelle bringing 55.46 kilos (122.27 lbs) to the scale
- Sable antelope bringing 235.2 kilos (518.53 lbs) to the scale
- Blue duiker bringing 4.9 kilos (10.8 lbs) to the scale
- Muskox bringing 312.67 kilos (689.32 lbs) to the scale
- Rhim gazelle bringing 24.47 kilos (53.95 lbs) to the scale
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest bringing 168 kilos (370.38 lbs) to the scale
- Blackbuck bringing 36.1 kilos (79.59 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Cape grysbok
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Raphicerus melanotis:
- Preuss’s red colobus with a weight of 8.87 kilos (19.55 lbs)
- Mantled guereza with a weight of 9.96 kilos (21.96 lbs)
- Tenkile with a weight of 9.98 kilos (22 lbs)
- African civet with a weight of 12.09 kilos (26.65 lbs)
- Tibetan macaque with a weight of 10.6 kilos (23.37 lbs)
- Black-headed spider monkey with a weight of 9.07 kilos (20 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 9.12 kilos (20.11 lbs)
- Black colobus with a weight of 9.1 kilos (20.06 lbs)
- Japanese macaque with a weight of 10.11 kilos (22.29 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 12.27 kilos (27.05 lbs)
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Cape grysbok
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Cape grysbok:
- Southern flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Cape ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Silvery marmoset with an average maximal age of 16.75 years
- Arctocephalus forsteri with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Mountain reedbuck with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
- Pallas’s squirrel with an average maximal age of 16.08 years
- Arctic fox with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Sugar glider with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Greater false vampire bat with an average maximal age of 14 years