It is hard to guess what a Mountain goat weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) on average weights 71.84 kg (158.37 lbs).
The Mountain goat is from the family Bovidae (genus: Oreamnos). It is usually born with about 3.08 kg (6.79 lbs). They can live for up to 19.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.3 meter (4′ 4″). Usually, Mountain goats 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 mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus), also known as the Rocky Mountain goat, is a hoofed mammal endemic to North America. A subalpine to alpine species, it is a sure-footed climber commonly seen on cliffs and ice.Despite its vernacular name, it is not a member of Capra, the genus that includes all other goats, such as the wild goat, Capra aegagrus, from which the domestic goat is derived. The mountain goat was used as the emblem of the Great Northern Railway until merger with Burlington Northern in 1970.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain goat
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Gayal bringing 800.07 kilos (1763.85 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain gazelle bringing 21.25 kilos (46.85 lbs) to the scale
- Kouprey bringing 788.66 kilos (1738.7 lbs) to the scale
- Saola bringing 97.84 kilos (215.7 lbs) to the scale
- Blue wildebeest bringing 197.31 kilos (434.99 lbs) to the scale
- Siberian ibex bringing 130 kilos (286.6 lbs) to the scale
- Iberian ibex bringing 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs) to the scale
- Grant’s gazelle bringing 55.46 kilos (122.27 lbs) to the scale
- Black duiker bringing 19 kilos (41.89 lbs) to the scale
- Abbott’s duiker bringing 56.68 kilos (124.96 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain goat
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Oreamnos americanus:
- Southern reedbuck with a weight of 57.94 kilos (127.74 lbs)
- Ringed seal with a weight of 71.1 kilos (156.75 lbs)
- Alpaca with a weight of 64.9 kilos (143.08 lbs)
- South American fur seal with a weight of 68.14 kilos (150.22 lbs)
- Pantropical spotted dolphin with a weight of 65.72 kilos (144.89 lbs)
- Burmeister’s porpoise with a weight of 60 kilos (132.28 lbs)
- Yellow-backed duiker with a weight of 61.65 kilos (135.91 lbs)
- Dall sheep with a weight of 70 kilos (154.32 lbs)
- Australophocaena dioptrica with a weight of 65 kilos (143.3 lbs)
- Bighorn sheep with a weight of 74.63 kilos (164.53 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mountain goat
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mountain goat:
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Pronghorn with a size of 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Aardvark with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Sheep with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Himalayan goral with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Mountain reedbuck with a size of 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)
- Bohor reedbuck with a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Sitatunga with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Brown bear with a size of 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- Black duiker with a size of 1.04 meter (3′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mountain goat
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Mountain goat:
- Lesser mouse-tailed bat
- Bechstein’s bat
- Caribbean monk seal
- Indian pipistrelle
- Mentawai langur
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
- Moose
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby
- Bay duiker
- Maned sloth
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Mountain goat
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Mountain goat:
- Chital with an average maximal age of 20.75 years
- Masked palm civet with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Caracal with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Brown fur seal with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Binturong with an average maximal age of 22.67 years
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with an average maximal age of 17.08 years
- Bohor reedbuck with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Dall’s porpoise with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Bechstein’s bat with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Black bearded saki with an average maximal age of 18 years