It is hard to guess what a Queen of Sheba’s gazelle weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Queen of Sheba’s gazelle (Gazella bilkis) on average weights 48.5 kg (106.92 lbs).
The Queen of Sheba’s gazelle is from the family Bovidae (genus: Gazella). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 99.9 cm (3′ 4″). Usually, Queen of Sheba’s gazelles 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 Queen of Sheba’s gazelle or Yemen gazelle (Gazella bilkis), is an extinct species of gazelle. It was sometimes regarded as a subspecies of the Arabian gazelle, which is no longer a valid species. It was found on the mountains and hillsides in Yemen, but none have been sighted since 1951, when five specimens were collected in mountains near Ta’izz, where it was reportedly common at the time.Surveys in the area of their former occurrence have failed to find any sign of its presence. In 1985, a photograph of gazelles was taken in a private collection, Al Wabra Wildlife Farm, in Qatar. Zoologist Colin Groves claims these could possibly be surviving Queen of Sheba’s gazelles. It is not confirmed whether these animals truly belong to this species.The cause of extinction is still uncertain.
Animals of the same family as a Queen of Sheba’s gazelle
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Waterbuck bringing 203.2 kilos (447.98 lbs) to the scale
- Long-tailed goral bringing 27 kilos (59.52 lbs) to the scale
- Saudi gazelle bringing 16 kilos (35.27 lbs) to the scale
- Cape grysbok bringing 10.47 kilos (23.08 lbs) to the scale
- Himalayan tahr bringing 68.26 kilos (150.49 lbs) to the scale
- Harnessed bushbuck bringing 43.28 kilos (95.42 lbs) to the scale
- Iberian ibex bringing 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs) to the scale
- Hartebeest bringing 162.47 kilos (358.18 lbs) to the scale
- Sharpe’s grysbok bringing 9.37 kilos (20.66 lbs) to the scale
- Markhor bringing 53.95 kilos (118.94 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Queen of Sheba’s gazelle
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gazella bilkis:
- Cougar with a weight of 53.93 kilos (118.9 lbs)
- Red kangaroo with a weight of 38.98 kilos (85.94 lbs)
- Galápagos fur seal with a weight of 39.47 kilos (87.02 lbs)
- Fallow deer with a weight of 56.71 kilos (125.02 lbs)
- Harnessed bushbuck with a weight of 43.28 kilos (95.42 lbs)
- Brown hyena with a weight of 42.98 kilos (94.75 lbs)
- Japanese serow with a weight of 43.03 kilos (94.86 lbs)
- Harbour porpoise with a weight of 52.72 kilos (116.23 lbs)
- Celebes warty pig with a weight of 53.46 kilos (117.86 lbs)
- Sun bear with a weight of 57.04 kilos (125.75 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Queen of Sheba’s gazelle
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Queen of Sheba’s gazelle:
- Collared peccary with a size of 88.6 cm (2′ 11″)
- Common wombat with a size of 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Black-fronted duiker with a size of 94.4 cm (3′ 2″)
- Klipspringer with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Black musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 1 meter (3′ 4″)
- Black duiker with a size of 1.04 meter (3′ 6″)
- Goa (antelope) with a size of 98 cm (3′ 3″)
- Clouded leopard with a size of 83.8 cm (2′ 9″)
- Mountain gazelle with a size of 1.01 meter (3′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Queen of Sheba’s gazelle
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Queen of Sheba’s gazelle: