It is hard to guess what a Nilgiri tahr weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Nilgiri tahr (Hemitragus hylocrius) on average weights 73.94 kg (163.02 lbs).
The Nilgiri tahr is from the family Bovidae (genus: Hemitragus). They can live for up to 17.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.39 meter (4′ 7″). Usually, Nilgiri tahrs 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 Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius) is an ungulate that is endemic to the Nilgiri Hills and the southern portion of the Western & Eastern Ghats in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in Southern India. It is the state animal of Tamil Nadu. Despite its local name, it is more closely related to the sheep of the genus Ovis than the ibex and wild goats of the genus Capra.
Animals of the same family as a Nilgiri tahr
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Chinese goral with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Impala bringing 52.45 kilos (115.63 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain nyala bringing 215 kilos (473.99 lbs) to the scale
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest bringing 168.7 kilos (371.92 lbs) to the scale
- Bongo (antelope) bringing 269.5 kilos (594.15 lbs) to the scale
- Chamois bringing 33.11 kilos (72.99 lbs) to the scale
- Oribi bringing 17.16 kilos (37.83 lbs) to the scale
- Ogilby’s duiker bringing 18.29 kilos (40.32 lbs) to the scale
- Bates’s pygmy antelope bringing 2.96 kilos (6.53 lbs) to the scale
- Roan antelope bringing 262.09 kilos (577.81 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Nilgiri tahr
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hemitragus hylocrius:
- Spotted hyena with a weight of 63.69 kilos (140.41 lbs)
- Bontebok with a weight of 77.24 kilos (170.28 lbs)
- Mountain goat with a weight of 71.84 kilos (158.38 lbs)
- Dall sheep with a weight of 70 kilos (154.32 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 75.99 kilos (167.53 lbs)
- West Caucasian tur with a weight of 60.73 kilos (133.89 lbs)
- Iberian ibex with a weight of 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs)
- Kob with a weight of 79.77 kilos (175.86 lbs)
- Sitatunga with a weight of 75.28 kilos (165.96 lbs)
- Spectacled porpoise with a weight of 65 kilos (143.3 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Nilgiri tahr
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Nilgiri tahr:
- Javan rusa with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- White-tailed deer with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Dall sheep with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Sloth bear with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Harbor seal with a size of 1.61 meter (5′ 4″)
- Yellow-backed duiker with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 5″)
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- South American fur seal with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 6″)
- Taruca with a size of 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Nilgiri tahr
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Nilgiri tahr:
- Big hairy armadillo
- Prehensile-tailed hutia
- Egyptian free-tailed bat
- Masoala fork-marked lemur
- Suni
- Peters’s trumpet-eared bat
- Shining thicket rat
- Antarctic fur seal
- Tufted pygmy squirrel
- Guanaco
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Nilgiri tahr
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Nilgiri tahr:
- Short-eared possum with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Cape porcupine with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Jentink’s duiker with an average maximal age of 17.5 years
- White-nosed coati with an average maximal age of 17.67 years
- Verreaux’s sifaka with an average maximal age of 20.58 years
- Masked palm civet with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Greater glider with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Bongo (antelope) with an average maximal age of 19.42 years
- Santarem marmoset with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Australian sea lion with an average maximal age of 16 years