It is hard to guess what a Gayal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gayal (Bos frontalis) on average weights 800.07 kg (1763.85 lbs).
The Gayal is from the family Bovidae (genus: Bos). It is usually born with about 23.04 kg (50.79 lbs). They can live for up to 26.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.7 meter (8′ 11″). On average, Gayals can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 gayal (Bos frontalis), also known as mithun in Myanmar, is a large domestic bovine distributed in Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and in Yunnan, China.
Animals of the same family as a Gayal
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Saiga antelope bringing 37.57 kilos (82.83 lbs) to the scale
- Sheep bringing 37.47 kilos (82.61 lbs) to the scale
- Peters’s duiker bringing 18.94 kilos (41.76 lbs) to the scale
- Blue duiker bringing 4.86 kilos (10.71 lbs) to the scale
- Urial bringing 51.8 kilos (114.2 lbs) to the scale
- Bay duiker bringing 20 kilos (44.09 lbs) to the scale
- Günther’s dik-dik bringing 4.61 kilos (10.16 lbs) to the scale
- Arabian oryx bringing 75.43 kilos (166.29 lbs) to the scale
- Suni bringing 5.63 kilos (12.41 lbs) to the scale
- Hirola bringing 78.6 kilos (173.28 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Gayal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bos frontalis:
- Northern giraffe with a weight of 959.83 kilos (2116.06 lbs)
- Giant eland with a weight of 644.51 kilos (1420.9 lbs)
- Kouprey with a weight of 788.66 kilos (1738.7 lbs)
- Long-finned pilot whale with a weight of 800 kilos (1763.7 lbs)
- Water buffalo with a weight of 924.25 kilos (2037.62 lbs)
- Short-finned pilot whale with a weight of 726 kilos (1600.55 lbs)
- Narwhal with a weight of 938.06 kilos (2068.07 lbs)
- European bison with a weight of 674.44 kilos (1486.88 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Gayal
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gayal:
- Javan rhinoceros with a size of 3.1 meter (10′ 3″)
- Irrawaddy dolphin with a size of 2.5 meter (8′ 3″)
- Greater kudu with a size of 2.2 meter (7′ 3″)
- Common bottlenose dolphin with a size of 2.83 meter (9′ 4″)
- Common eland with a size of 2.66 meter (8′ 9″)
- Short-beaked common dolphin with a size of 2.44 meter (8′ 1″)
- Moose with a size of 2.83 meter (9′ 4″)
- Reindeer with a size of 2.23 meter (7′ 4″)
- Mediterranean monk seal with a size of 2.6 meter (8′ 7″)
- Black rhinoceros with a size of 2.85 meter (9′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gayal
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Gayal:
- Moonshine shrew
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
- Walia ibex
- Highland brush mouse
- Northern brushtail possum
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- Mongalla free-tailed bat
- Large-footed bat
- Tropical vlei rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Gayal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Gayal:
- Amazonian manatee with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Crested mona monkey with an average maximal age of 24.08 years
- Silvery lutung with an average maximal age of 31.08 years
- Bechstein’s bat with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Angolan talapoin with an average maximal age of 30.83 years
- European bison with an average maximal age of 27 years
- Ribbon seal with an average maximal age of 31 years
- Brown-mantled tamarin with an average maximal age of 24.5 years
- Mona monkey with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Striped hyena with an average maximal age of 24 years