It is hard to guess what a Pronghorn weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) on average weights 47.18 kg (104 lbs).
The Pronghorn is from the family Antilocapridae (genus: Antilocapra). It is usually born with about 3.45 kg (7.61 lbs). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.31 meter (4′ 4″). On average, Pronghorns can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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 pronghorn (UK: , US: ) (Antilocapra americana) is a species of artiodactyl (even-toed, hoofed) mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America. Though not an antelope, it is often known colloquially in North America as the American antelope, prong buck, pronghorn antelope, prairie antelope, or simply antelope because it closely resembles the true antelopes of the Old World and fills a similar ecological niche due to parallel evolution. It is the only surviving member of the family Antilocapridae.During the Pleistocene epoch, about 12 antilocaprid species existed in North America. Three other genera (Capromeryx, Stockoceros and Tetrameryx) existed when humans entered North America but are now extinct.As a member of the superfamily Giraffoidea, the pronghorn’s closest living relatives are the giraffes and okapi. The Giraffoidea are in turn members of the infraorder Pecora, making pronghorns more distant relatives of the Cervidae (deer) and Bovidae (cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes, and gazelles), among others.The pronghorn is the symbol of the American Society of Mammalogists.
Animals with the same weight as a Pronghorn
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Antilocapra americana:
- Capybara with a weight of 48.14 kilos (106.13 lbs)
- Brown hyena with a weight of 42.98 kilos (94.75 lbs)
- Philippine deer with a weight of 49.46 kilos (109.04 lbs)
- La Plata dolphin with a weight of 40.5 kilos (89.29 lbs)
- Japanese serow with a weight of 43.03 kilos (94.86 lbs)
- Impala with a weight of 52.45 kilos (115.63 lbs)
- Bawean deer with a weight of 55 kilos (121.25 lbs)
- Red kangaroo with a weight of 38.98 kilos (85.94 lbs)
- Red gazelle with a weight of 40 kilos (88.18 lbs)
- Cheetah with a weight of 50.54 kilos (111.42 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pronghorn
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pronghorn:
- Jentink’s duiker with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Himalayan goral with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Jaguar with a size of 1.33 meter (4′ 5″)
- White-tailed deer with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Sheep with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Brown hyena with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Dibatag with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Ringed seal with a size of 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Blackbuck with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pronghorn
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Pronghorn:
- Golden-headed lion tamarin
- Red hocicudo
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat
- Dobson’s shrew tenrec
- Large treeshrew
- Blanford’s fox
- Otter civet
- Reindeer
- Somali serotine
- Common yellow-toothed cavy
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Pronghorn
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Pronghorn:
- Urial with an average maximal age of 13.75 years
- Muskrat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- White-lined broad-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 10.17 years
- Striped polecat with an average maximal age of 13.33 years
- Gerenuk with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Long-tailed porcupine with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Rock hyrax with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Pudú with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Steenbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Speke’s pectinator with an average maximal age of 10 years