It is hard to guess what a Himalayan tahr weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus) on average weights 68.26 kg (150.48 lbs).
The Himalayan tahr is from the family Bovidae (genus: Hemitragus). It is usually born with about 2.7 kg (5.95 lbs). They can live for up to 21.75 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.08 meter (3′ 7″). Usually, Himalayan tahrs 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 Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus) is a large even-toed ungulate native to the Himalayas in southern Tibet, northern India and Nepal. It is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List, as the population is declining due to hunting and habitat loss.A recent phylogenetic analysis indicates that the genus Hemitragus is monospecific, and that the Himalayan tahr is a wild goat.The Himalayan tahr has been introduced to Argentina, New Zealand, South Africa and the United States.
Animals of the same family as a Himalayan tahr
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Bates’s pygmy antelope bringing 2.96 kilos (6.53 lbs) to the scale
- Alpine ibex bringing 69.42 kilos (153.04 lbs) to the scale
- Arabian tahr bringing 22.06 kilos (48.63 lbs) to the scale
- Harvey’s duiker bringing 14.5 kilos (31.97 lbs) to the scale
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis bringing 110 kilos (242.51 lbs) to the scale
- Addax bringing 95.39 kilos (210.3 lbs) to the scale
- Common tsessebe bringing 133.5 kilos (294.32 lbs) to the scale
- Barbary sheep bringing 93.7 kilos (206.57 lbs) to the scale
- Domestic yak bringing 500 kilos (1102.31 lbs) to the scale
- Zebra duiker bringing 15.53 kilos (34.24 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Himalayan tahr
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hemitragus jemlahicus:
- Desert warthog with a weight of 75.61 kilos (166.69 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 65.8 kilos (145.06 lbs)
- Puku with a weight of 71.23 kilos (157.04 lbs)
- Northern fur seal with a weight of 55.58 kilos (122.53 lbs)
- Persian fallow deer with a weight of 74.4 kilos (164.02 lbs)
- West Caucasian tur with a weight of 60.73 kilos (133.89 lbs)
- Sitatunga with a weight of 75.28 kilos (165.96 lbs)
- Bighorn sheep with a weight of 74.63 kilos (164.53 lbs)
- Bushpig with a weight of 68.91 kilos (151.92 lbs)
- Nilgiri tahr with a weight of 73.94 kilos (163.01 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Himalayan tahr
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Himalayan tahr:
- Round-eared tube-nosed bat
- Ribboned rope squirrel
- Shrew-faced squirrel
- Straw-coloured fruit bat
- Prehensile-tailed hutia
- Greater grison
- Preuss’s red colobus
- Common eland
- De Vis’s woolly rat
- Bonobo
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Himalayan tahr
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Himalayan tahr:
- Common vampire bat with an average maximal age of 19.5 years
- Hartebeest with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Dall’s porpoise with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Golden lion tamarin with an average maximal age of 24.75 years
- Patas monkey with an average maximal age of 23.83 years
- Goeldi’s marmoset with an average maximal age of 17.83 years
- Red-shanked douc with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Bontebok with an average maximal age of 21.67 years
- Koala with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Madagascan fruit bat with an average maximal age of 20 years