It is hard to guess what a Markhor weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Markhor (Capra falconeri) on average weights 53.95 kg (118.94 lbs).
The Markhor is from the family Bovidae (genus: Capra). They can live for up to 14 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.59 meter (5′ 3″). Usually, Markhors 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 markhor (Capra falconeri), is a large Capra species native to Central Asia, Karakoram and the Himalayas. It is listed on the IUCN Red List as Near Threatened since 2015.The markhor is the national animal of Pakistan, where it is also known as the screw horn or “screw-horned goat”, mārkhor (مارخور) in Pashto and mārkhor (मारख़ोर, مارخور) in Hindustani from Classical Persian.
Animals of the same family as a Markhor
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Grant’s gazelle bringing 55.46 kilos (122.27 lbs) to the scale
- Urial bringing 51.8 kilos (114.2 lbs) to the scale
- Günther’s dik-dik bringing 4.61 kilos (10.16 lbs) to the scale
- Water buffalo bringing 924.25 kilos (2037.62 lbs) to the scale
- Anoa bringing 256 kilos (564.38 lbs) to the scale
- Hirola bringing 79.13 kilos (174.45 lbs) to the scale
- Springbok bringing 33.39 kilos (73.61 lbs) to the scale
- Dorcas gazelle bringing 15.57 kilos (34.33 lbs) to the scale
- Royal antelope bringing 3.9 kilos (8.6 lbs) to the scale
- Tamaraw bringing 252.7 kilos (557.11 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Markhor
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Capra falconeri:
- Leopard with a weight of 52.4 kilos (115.52 lbs)
- Aardvark with a weight of 56.85 kilos (125.33 lbs)
- Chimpanzee with a weight of 45.03 kilos (99.27 lbs)
- East Caucasian tur with a weight of 57.5 kilos (126.77 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer with a weight of 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs)
- Burmeister’s porpoise with a weight of 60 kilos (132.28 lbs)
- Bawean deer with a weight of 55 kilos (121.25 lbs)
- Abbott’s duiker with a weight of 56.68 kilos (124.96 lbs)
- Cougar with a weight of 53.93 kilos (118.9 lbs)
- Philippine deer with a weight of 49.1 kilos (108.25 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Markhor
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Markhor:
- Baiji with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 8″)
- Bighorn sheep with a size of 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Western gorilla with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Cheetah with a size of 1.48 meter (4′ 11″)
- Barbary sheep with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Calamian deer with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- American black bear with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Philippine warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Saola with a size of 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Guanaco with a size of 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Markhor
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Markhor:
- Harp seal
- Common brown lemur
- Robert’s snow vole
- Southeastern pocket gopher
- Large slit-faced bat
- Underwood’s bonneted bat
- Gray brocket
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum
- Little yellow bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Markhor
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Markhor:
- Günther’s dik-dik with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 12.33 years
- Ring-tailed cat with an average maximal age of 16.5 years
- Lowland paca with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Grey long-eared bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Black-footed mongoose with an average maximal age of 15.83 years
- Nine-banded armadillo with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Smooth-coated otter with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Gray brocket with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with an average maximal age of 12 years