It is hard to guess what a Hirola weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hirola (Damaliscus hunteri) on average weights 78.6 kg (173.28 lbs).
The Hirola is from the family Bovidae (genus: Damaliscus). It is usually born with about 8.35 kg (18.41 lbs). They can live for up to 15.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.6 meter (5′ 3″). Usually, Hirolas 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 hirola (Beatragus hunteri), Hunter’s hartebeest or Hunter’s antelope, is a critically endangered antelope species found on the border between Kenya and Somalia. They were discovered by Kenyans living in the area in 1888 It is the only extant member of the genus Beatragus. The global hirola population is estimated at 300–500 animals, there are no hirola in captivity and the wild population continues to decline. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List “The loss of the Hirola would be the first extinction of a mammalian genus on mainland Africa in modern human history.”
Animals of the same family as a Hirola
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Red gazelle bringing 40 kilos (88.18 lbs) to the scale
- Jentink’s duiker bringing 68 kilos (149.91 lbs) to the scale
- African buffalo bringing 592.83 kilos (1306.96 lbs) to the scale
- Lesser kudu bringing 93.81 kilos (206.82 lbs) to the scale
- Kob bringing 79.77 kilos (175.86 lbs) to the scale
- Rhim gazelle bringing 24.47 kilos (53.95 lbs) to the scale
- Harvey’s duiker bringing 14.5 kilos (31.97 lbs) to the scale
- Bohor reedbuck bringing 43.09 kilos (95 lbs) to the scale
- Dall sheep bringing 70 kilos (154.32 lbs) to the scale
- Zebra duiker bringing 15.53 kilos (34.24 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Hirola
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Damaliscus hunteri:
- Sitatunga with a weight of 75.28 kilos (165.96 lbs)
- Alpaca with a weight of 64.9 kilos (143.08 lbs)
- Harbor seal with a weight of 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs)
- Spectacled porpoise with a weight of 65 kilos (143.3 lbs)
- Nile lechwe with a weight of 85.5 kilos (188.5 lbs)
- Puku with a weight of 71.23 kilos (157.04 lbs)
- Lechwe with a weight of 88.02 kilos (194.05 lbs)
- Ribbon seal with a weight of 90 kilos (198.42 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 75.99 kilos (167.53 lbs)
- Barbary sheep with a weight of 93.7 kilos (206.57 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Hirola
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hirola:
- Dall sheep with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Cheetah with a size of 1.48 meter (4′ 11″)
- Spotted hyena with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- South Andean deer with a size of 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Brown bear with a size of 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- Pygmy hippopotamus with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Anoa with a size of 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Guanaco with a size of 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Sheep with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Sloth bear with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hirola
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Hirola:
- Toolache wallaby
- Crested mona monkey
- Gray whale
- Chocolate wattled bat
- Squirrel glider
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle
- Moustached tamarin
- Least horseshoe bat
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Diana monkey
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Hirola
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Hirola:
- Common marmoset with an average maximal age of 16.75 years
- Maned wolf with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Steenbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Australian sea lion with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Grant’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Tammar wallaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Equatorial saki with an average maximal age of 14.83 years
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Desert rat-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 13 years