It is hard to guess what a Goat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Goat (Capra hircus) on average weights 47.14 kg (103.93 lbs).
The Goat is from the family Bovidae (genus: Capra). It is usually born with about 2.14 kg (4.71 lbs). They can live for up to 20.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.59 meter (5′ 3″). Usually, Goats 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 domestic goat or simply goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of C. aegagrus domesticated from the wild goat of Southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the animal family Bovidae and the subfamily Caprinae, meaning it is closely related to the sheep. There are over 300 distinct breeds of goat. Goats are one of the oldest domesticated species of animal, and have been used for milk, meat, fur and skins across much of the world. Milk from goats is often turned into goat cheese.Female goats are referred to as does or nannies, intact males are called bucks or billies and juvenile goats of both sexes are called kids. Castrated males are called wethers. While the words hircine and caprine both refer to anything having a goat-like quality, hircine is used most often to emphasize the distinct smell of domestic goats.In 2011, there were more than 924 million goats living in the world, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
Animals of the same family as a Goat
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Blue duiker bringing 4.86 kilos (10.71 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese goral with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Abbott’s duiker bringing 56.68 kilos (124.96 lbs) to the scale
- African buffalo bringing 592.83 kilos (1306.96 lbs) to the scale
- Sumatran serow bringing 110.94 kilos (244.58 lbs) to the scale
- Red hartebeest bringing 176.12 kilos (388.28 lbs) to the scale
- Greater kudu bringing 205.53 kilos (453.12 lbs) to the scale
- Pyrenean chamois bringing 30 kilos (66.14 lbs) to the scale
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis bringing 110 kilos (242.51 lbs) to the scale
- Bontebok bringing 77.24 kilos (170.28 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Goat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Capra hircus:
- Philippine deer with a weight of 49.1 kilos (108.25 lbs)
- Galápagos fur seal with a weight of 39.47 kilos (87.02 lbs)
- Cheetah with a weight of 50.54 kilos (111.42 lbs)
- Bornean orangutan with a weight of 52.97 kilos (116.78 lbs)
- Harnessed bushbuck with a weight of 43.28 kilos (95.42 lbs)
- Impala with a weight of 52.45 kilos (115.63 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a weight of 41.58 kilos (91.67 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer with a weight of 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs)
- Philippine deer with a weight of 49.46 kilos (109.04 lbs)
- Urial with a weight of 51.8 kilos (114.2 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Goat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Goat:
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Nilgiri tahr
- White-beaked dolphin
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat
- King colobus
- Nilgai
- Mexican long-tongued bat
- Black lemur
- Mongoose lemur
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Goat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Goat:
- Proboscis monkey with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Mountain gazelle with an average maximal age of 18.25 years
- Giant forest hog with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Verreaux’s sifaka with an average maximal age of 20.58 years
- Chital with an average maximal age of 20.75 years
- Northern greater galago with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Desert warthog with an average maximal age of 18.75 years
- Monk saki with an average maximal age of 24.58 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with an average maximal age of 22.83 years
- Kob with an average maximal age of 21.92 years