It is hard to guess what a Hirola weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hirola (Beatragus hunteri) on average weights 79.13 kg (174.46 lbs).
The Hirola is from the family Bovidae (genus: Beatragus). 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:
- Nilgiri tahr bringing 73.94 kilos (163.01 lbs) to the scale
- Dama gazelle bringing 71.42 kilos (157.45 lbs) to the scale
- Blue wildebeest bringing 197.31 kilos (434.99 lbs) to the scale
- White-bellied duiker bringing 13.1 kilos (28.88 lbs) to the scale
- Himalayan goral bringing 28.75 kilos (63.38 lbs) to the scale
- Himalayan tahr bringing 68.26 kilos (150.49 lbs) to the scale
- Bay duiker bringing 20 kilos (44.09 lbs) to the scale
- Arabian gazelle bringing 18.06 kilos (39.82 lbs) to the scale
- European bison bringing 674.44 kilos (1486.88 lbs) to the scale
- Harnessed bushbuck bringing 43.28 kilos (95.42 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 Beatragus hunteri:
- Bushpig with a weight of 68.91 kilos (151.92 lbs)
- Alpine ibex with a weight of 69.42 kilos (153.04 lbs)
- Dall sheep with a weight of 70 kilos (154.32 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 93.49 kilos (206.11 lbs)
- Harbor seal with a weight of 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs)
- Kob with a weight of 79.77 kilos (175.86 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)
- White-tailed deer with a weight of 75.6 kilos (166.67 lbs)
- Dama gazelle with a weight of 70.4 kilos (155.21 lbs)
- Bontebok with a weight of 77.24 kilos (170.28 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:
- Bawean deer with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Alpaca with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Guadalupe fur seal with a size of 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Dama gazelle with a size of 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Bighorn sheep with a size of 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Harp seal with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Southern reedbuck with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Nilgiri tahr with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Barasingha with a size of 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
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:
- Green ringtail possum
- Steller’s sea cow
- Fallow deer
- Long-tailed fruit bat
- Dent’s mona monkey
- Little red brocket
- Four-horned antelope
- Fox’s shrew
- Onager
- Sunda flying lemur
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Hirola
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Hirola:
- Giant otter with an average maximal age of 12.83 years
- Red forest duiker with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Dama gazelle with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Dall sheep with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Common warthog with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Thomson’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Common duiker with an average maximal age of 14.25 years
- Gray-bellied night monkey with an average maximal age of 18 years