It is hard to guess what a Puku weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Puku (Kobus vardonii) on average weights 71.23 kg (157.04 lbs).
The Puku is from the family Bovidae (genus: Kobus). It is usually born with about 5.79 kg (12.77 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.34 meter (4′ 5″). Usually, Pukus 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 puku (Kobus vardonii) is a medium-sized antelope found in wet grasslands in southern Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, Tanzania, and Zambia. Nearly one-third of all puku are found in protected areas, zoos, and national parks due to their diminishing habitat.
Animals of the same family as a Puku
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Sharpe’s grysbok bringing 9.37 kilos (20.66 lbs) to the scale
- Suni bringing 5.63 kilos (12.41 lbs) to the scale
- Muskox bringing 312.67 kilos (689.32 lbs) to the scale
- European bison bringing 674.44 kilos (1486.88 lbs) to the scale
- Gerenuk bringing 38.65 kilos (85.21 lbs) to the scale
- Nyala bringing 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs) to the scale
- Silver dik-dik bringing 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs) to the scale
- Hirola bringing 79.13 kilos (174.45 lbs) to the scale
- Tibetan antelope bringing 32.66 kilos (72 lbs) to the scale
- Red gazelle bringing 40 kilos (88.18 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Puku
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Kobus vardonii:
- Arabian oryx with a weight of 75.43 kilos (166.29 lbs)
- Southern reedbuck with a weight of 57.94 kilos (127.74 lbs)
- Iberian ibex with a weight of 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs)
- Hirola with a weight of 79.13 kilos (174.45 lbs)
- Mountain goat with a weight of 71.84 kilos (158.38 lbs)
- Yellow-backed duiker with a weight of 61.65 kilos (135.91 lbs)
- Hirola with a weight of 78.6 kilos (173.28 lbs)
- South American fur seal with a weight of 68.14 kilos (150.22 lbs)
- Spotted hyena with a weight of 63.69 kilos (140.41 lbs)
- Dama gazelle with a weight of 71.42 kilos (157.45 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Puku
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Puku:
- Visayan warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Oribi with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Sumatran serow with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Pronghorn with a size of 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Wild boar with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Calamian deer with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Aardvark with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- White-tailed deer with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Antarctic fur seal with a size of 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Giant anteater with a size of 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Puku
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Puku: