It is hard to guess what a Dall sheep weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dall sheep (Ovis dalli) on average weights 70 kg (154.31 lbs).
The Dall sheep is from the family Bovidae (genus: Ovis). It is usually born with about 3.5 kg (7.71 lbs). They can live for up to 16 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.42 meter (4′ 8″). Usually, Dall sheeps 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 Dall sheep, also known as the thinhorn sheep, (Ovis dalli) is a species of wild sheep native to northwestern North America, ranging from white to slate brown in colour and having curved, yellowish-brown horns. The two subspecies are the nominate Dall sheep or Dall’s sheep and the more southern subspecies, Stone sheep (also spelled Stone’s sheep) (O. d. stonei), which is a slate brown with some white patches on the rump and inside the hind legs.
Animals of the same family as a Dall sheep
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Scimitar oryx bringing 198.4 kilos (437.4 lbs) to the scale
- Japanese serow bringing 42.6 kilos (93.92 lbs) to the scale
- Walia ibex bringing 99.77 kilos (219.95 lbs) to the scale
- Himalayan tahr bringing 68.26 kilos (150.49 lbs) to the scale
- Blue duiker bringing 4.9 kilos (10.8 lbs) to the scale
- Thomson’s gazelle bringing 22.6 kilos (49.82 lbs) to the scale
- Nile lechwe bringing 85.5 kilos (188.5 lbs) to the scale
- Addax bringing 95.39 kilos (210.3 lbs) to the scale
- Maxwell’s duiker bringing 8.44 kilos (18.61 lbs) to the scale
- Goa (antelope) bringing 23.13 kilos (50.99 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Dall sheep
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ovis dalli:
- Common warthog with a weight of 82.5 kilos (181.88 lbs)
- Ringed seal with a weight of 71.1 kilos (156.75 lbs)
- Alpine ibex with a weight of 69.42 kilos (153.04 lbs)
- Dama gazelle with a weight of 71.42 kilos (157.45 lbs)
- Ringed seal with a weight of 70.96 kilos (156.44 lbs)
- Iberian ibex with a weight of 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs)
- East Caucasian tur with a weight of 57.5 kilos (126.77 lbs)
- Taruca with a weight of 68.6 kilos (151.24 lbs)
- Himalayan tahr with a weight of 68.26 kilos (150.49 lbs)
- Homo sapiens with a weight of 58.62 kilos (129.23 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Dall sheep
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Dall sheep:
- Philippine warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Juan Fernández fur seal with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Abbott’s duiker with a size of 1.18 meter (3′ 11″)
- Harbor seal with a size of 1.61 meter (5′ 4″)
- Maned wolf with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Ribbon seal with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Visayan warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Siberian roe deer with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Guanaco with a size of 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Dall sheep
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Dall sheep:
- Muskox
- Townsend’s mole
- Greater mouse-deer
- Woolly horseshoe bat
- Least horseshoe bat
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat
- South American fur seal
- Serotine bat
- Western woolly lemur
- Barbary macaque
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Dall sheep
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Dall sheep:
- Clouded leopard with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Malabar large-spotted civet with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Red giant flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Black-footed mongoose with an average maximal age of 15.83 years
- Wolverine with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Giant eland with an average maximal age of 16.17 years
- Northern bat with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Black bearded saki with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Bobak marmot with an average maximal age of 15 years