It is hard to guess what a Mountain nyala weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mountain nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni) on average weights 215 kg (473.99 lbs).
The Mountain nyala is from the family Bovidae (genus: Tragelaphus). They can live for up to 11 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.25 meter (7′ 5″). Usually, Mountain nyalas 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 nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni) or balbok is an antelope found in high altitude woodland in a small part of central Ethiopia. It is a monotypic species (without any identified subspecies) first described by English naturalist Richard Lydekker in 1910. The males are typically 120–135 cm (47–53 in) tall while females stand 90–100 cm (35–39 in) at the shoulder. Males weigh 180–300 kg (400–660 lb) and females weigh 150–200 kg (330–440 lb). The coat is grey to brown, marked with two to five poorly defined white strips extending from the back to the underside, and a row of six to ten white spots. White markings are present on the face, throat and legs as well. Males have a short dark erect crest, about 10 cm (3.9 in) high, running along the middle of the back. Only males possess horns.The mountain nyala are shy and elusive towards human beings. Four to five individuals may congregate for short intervals of time to form small herds. Males are not territorial. Primarily a browser, the mountain nyala may switch to grazing occasionally. Females start mating at two years of age, and males too become sexually mature by that time. Gestation lasts for eight to nine months, after which a single calf is born. The lifespan of a mountain nyala is around 15 to 20 years.The typical habitat for the mountain nyala is composed of montane woodlands at an altitude of 3,000–3,400 m (9,800–11,200 ft). Human settlement and large livestock population have forced the animal to occupy heath forests at an altitude of above 3,400 m (11,200 ft). Mountain nyala are endemic to the Ethiopian highlands east of the Rift Valley, between 6°N and 10°N. Up to half of the total population of the mountain nyala occurs in the 200 km2 (77 sq mi) area of Gaysay, in the northern part of the Bale Mountains National Park. The mountain nyala has been classified under the Endangered category of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Their influence on Ethiopian culture is notable, with the mountain nyala being featured on the obverse of Ethiopian ten cents coins.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain nyala
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Four-horned antelope bringing 19.19 kilos (42.31 lbs) to the scale
- Tamaraw bringing 252.7 kilos (557.11 lbs) to the scale
- Giant eland bringing 644.51 kilos (1420.9 lbs) to the scale
- Suni bringing 5.63 kilos (12.41 lbs) to the scale
- Lesser kudu bringing 93.81 kilos (206.82 lbs) to the scale
- Bates’s pygmy antelope bringing 2.96 kilos (6.53 lbs) to the scale
- Gemsbok bringing 187.6 kilos (413.59 lbs) to the scale
- Impala bringing 52.45 kilos (115.63 lbs) to the scale
- Beira (antelope) bringing 10.91 kilos (24.05 lbs) to the scale
- Nile lechwe bringing 85.5 kilos (188.5 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain nyala
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tragelaphus buxtoni:
- East African oryx with a weight of 200.58 kilos (442.2 lbs)
- White-beaked dolphin with a weight of 186.82 kilos (411.87 lbs)
- Nilgai with a weight of 181.63 kilos (400.43 lbs)
- Dwarf sperm whale with a weight of 183 kilos (403.45 lbs)
- Crabeater seal with a weight of 225 kilos (496.04 lbs)
- Red deer with a weight of 240.43 kilos (530.06 lbs)
- Waterbuck with a weight of 203.2 kilos (447.98 lbs)
- Brown fur seal with a weight of 178.75 kilos (394.08 lbs)
- Equus onager with a weight of 205 kilos (451.95 lbs)
- Onager with a weight of 235.62 kilos (519.45 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mountain nyala
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mountain nyala:
- Water buffalo with a size of 2.65 meter (8′ 9″)
- Rough-toothed dolphin with a size of 2.44 meter (8′ 1″)
- Polar bear with a size of 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- South American sea lion with a size of 2.12 meter (7′ 0″)
- Banteng with a size of 2.08 meter (6′ 10″)
- Crabeater seal with a size of 2.27 meter (7′ 6″)
- Malayan tapir with a size of 2.22 meter (7′ 4″)
- Dugong with a size of 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)
- Pantropical spotted dolphin with a size of 2.14 meter (7′ 1″)
- Crabeater seal with a size of 2.28 meter (7′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mountain nyala
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Mountain nyala:
- New Zealand sea lion
- Weddell seal
- Western grey kangaroo
- Blue whale
- Shining thicket rat
- Kivu shrew
- Gray-backed sportive lemur
- Bawean deer
- Guam flying fox
- Margay
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Mountain nyala
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Mountain nyala:
- Asian small-clawed otter with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Banded palm civet with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Thylacine with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Capybara with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Long-nosed potoroo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 9.75 years
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Northern flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 13 years
- American red squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Mountain reedbuck with an average maximal age of 12.25 years