It is hard to guess what a Kouprey weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Kouprey (Bos sauveli) on average weights 788.66 kg (1738.7 lbs).
The Kouprey is from the family Bovidae (genus: Bos). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.18 meter (7′ 2″).
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 kouprey (Bos sauveli, from Khmer: គោព្រៃ, Khmer pronunciation: [koː prɨj], “forest ox”; also known as kouproh, “grey ox”) is a little-known, forest-dwelling, wild bovine species native to Southeast Asia. A young male was sent to the Vincennes Zoo in 1937 where it was described by the French zoologist Achille Urbain and was declared the holotype. The kouprey has a tall, narrow body, long legs, a humped back and long horns.The kouprey has not been sighted since 1969-1970. A camera trapping survey in the region of these sightings failed to document it in 2011. It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 1996.
Animals of the same family as a Kouprey
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Saola bringing 97.84 kilos (215.7 lbs) to the scale
- Blue duiker bringing 4.86 kilos (10.71 lbs) to the scale
- Snow sheep bringing 90 kilos (198.42 lbs) to the scale
- Red-flanked duiker bringing 12.06 kilos (26.59 lbs) to the scale
- Nubian ibex bringing 47.68 kilos (105.12 lbs) to the scale
- Scimitar oryx bringing 198.4 kilos (437.4 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain nyala bringing 215 kilos (473.99 lbs) to the scale
- Salt’s dik-dik bringing 3.4 kilos (7.5 lbs) to the scale
- Oribi bringing 17.16 kilos (37.83 lbs) to the scale
- Siberian ibex bringing 130 kilos (286.6 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Kouprey
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bos sauveli:
- 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)
- European bison with a weight of 674.44 kilos (1486.88 lbs)
- Narwhal with a weight of 938.06 kilos (2068.07 lbs)
- Long-finned pilot whale with a weight of 800 kilos (1763.7 lbs)
- Banteng with a weight of 631.49 kilos (1392.2 lbs)
- Gayal with a weight of 800.07 kilos (1763.85 lbs)
- Giant eland with a weight of 644.51 kilos (1420.9 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Kouprey
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Kouprey:
- Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin with a size of 2.37 meter (7′ 10″)
- Sambar deer with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- South American tapir with a size of 2.01 meter (6′ 7″)
- Sable antelope with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- Reindeer with a size of 2.23 meter (7′ 4″)
- Dugong with a size of 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)
- California sea lion with a size of 2.02 meter (6′ 8″)
- Malayan tapir with a size of 2.22 meter (7′ 4″)
- Asian elephant with a size of 1.92 meter (6′ 4″)
- Caribbean monk seal with a size of 2.29 meter (7′ 7″)