It is hard to guess what a Sable antelope weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) on average weights 235.2 kg (518.53 lbs).
The Sable antelope is from the family Bovidae (genus: Hippotragus). It is usually born with about 16.46 kg (36.28 lbs). They can live for up to 22.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.04 meter (6′ 9″). Usually, Sable antelopes 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 sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) is an antelope which inhabits wooded savanna in East and Southern Africa, from the south of Kenya to South Africa, with a separate population in Angola.
Animals of the same family as a Sable antelope
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Grant’s gazelle bringing 55.46 kilos (122.27 lbs) to the scale
- Bohor reedbuck bringing 43.09 kilos (95 lbs) to the scale
- Sitatunga bringing 75.28 kilos (165.96 lbs) to the scale
- Dama gazelle bringing 71.42 kilos (157.45 lbs) to the scale
- Lechwe bringing 88.02 kilos (194.05 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese goral with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Zebra duiker bringing 15.53 kilos (34.24 lbs) to the scale
- Weyns’s duiker with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Nubian ibex bringing 47.68 kilos (105.12 lbs) to the scale
- Addax bringing 95.39 kilos (210.3 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Sable antelope
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hippotragus niger:
- Anoa with a weight of 256 kilos (564.38 lbs)
- Mountain nyala with a weight of 215 kilos (473.99 lbs)
- Roan antelope with a weight of 262.09 kilos (577.81 lbs)
- Hooded seal with a weight of 278.95 kilos (614.98 lbs)
- Kiang with a weight of 280.57 kilos (618.55 lbs)
- Common bottlenose dolphin with a weight of 281.02 kilos (619.54 lbs)
- Caribbean monk seal with a weight of 198.38 kilos (437.35 lbs)
- Scimitar oryx with a weight of 198.4 kilos (437.4 lbs)
- Melon-headed whale with a weight of 206 kilos (454.15 lbs)
- Ross seal with a weight of 208.63 kilos (459.95 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sable antelope
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sable antelope:
- Lesser kudu with a size of 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
- Asian elephant with a size of 1.92 meter (6′ 4″)
- Short-beaked common dolphin with a size of 2.44 meter (8′ 1″)
- Mountain zebra with a size of 2.35 meter (7′ 9″)
- Banteng with a size of 2.08 meter (6′ 10″)
- Ross seal with a size of 2.07 meter (6′ 10″)
- Black wildebeest with a size of 1.82 meter (6′ 0″)
- Marsh deer with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Okapi with a size of 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Greater kudu with a size of 2.2 meter (7′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sable antelope
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Sable antelope:
- Hottentot golden mole
- Tree pangolin
- Rio Mayo titi
- Mantled howler
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat
- North American porcupine
- Zanzibar red colobus
- Wolf’s mona monkey
- Prehensile-tailed hutia
- Taphozous philippinensis
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Sable antelope
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Sable antelope:
- Patas monkey with an average maximal age of 23.83 years
- Eld’s deer with an average maximal age of 19.33 years
- Galápagos fur seal with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Indiana bat with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Proboscis monkey with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Margay with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Lesser horseshoe bat with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with an average maximal age of 22.83 years
- Mule deer with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with an average maximal age of 25 years