It is hard to guess what a Saola weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) on average weights 97.84 kg (215.7 lbs).
The Saola is from the family Bovidae (genus: Pseudoryx). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.75 meter (5′ 9″).
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 saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), also called siola, Vu Quang ox, spindlehorn, Asian unicorn, or, infrequently, the Vu Quang bovid, is one of the world’s rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine found only in the Annamite Range of Vietnam and Laos. Related to cattle, goats, and antelopes, the species was described following a discovery of remains in 1992 in Vũ Quang Nature Reserve by a joint survey of the Vietnamese Ministry of Forestry and the World Wide Fund for Nature. Saolas have since been kept in captivity multiple times, although only for short periods. A living saola in the wild was first photographed in 1999 by a camera trap set by WWF and the Vietnamese government’s Forest Protection Department (SFNC).
Animals of the same family as a Saola
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- East African oryx bringing 200.58 kilos (442.2 lbs) to the scale
- Hirola bringing 78.6 kilos (173.28 lbs) to the scale
- Peters’s duiker bringing 18.94 kilos (41.76 lbs) to the scale
- Dibatag bringing 28.05 kilos (61.84 lbs) to the scale
- Anoa bringing 180.86 kilos (398.73 lbs) to the scale
- Red forest duiker bringing 12.36 kilos (27.25 lbs) to the scale
- Arabian gazelle bringing 18.06 kilos (39.82 lbs) to the scale
- American bison bringing 622.29 kilos (1371.91 lbs) to the scale
- Bharal bringing 52.16 kilos (114.99 lbs) to the scale
- Impala bringing 52.45 kilos (115.63 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Saola
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudoryx nghetinhensis:
- Marsh deer with a weight of 111.76 kilos (246.39 lbs)
- Antarctic fur seal with a weight of 96.6 kilos (212.97 lbs)
- Nyala with a weight of 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs)
- Schomburgk’s deer with a weight of 107.63 kilos (237.28 lbs)
- Javan warty pig with a weight of 89.2 kilos (196.65 lbs)
- American black bear with a weight of 110.75 kilos (244.16 lbs)
- Ribbon seal with a weight of 90 kilos (198.42 lbs)
- Kob with a weight of 79.77 kilos (175.86 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 93.49 kilos (206.11 lbs)
- Common warthog with a weight of 82.5 kilos (181.88 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Saola
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Saola:
- Marsh deer with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Harp seal with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Ribbon seal with a size of 1.54 meter (5′ 1″)
- Dama gazelle with a size of 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Juan Fernández fur seal with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Guanaco with a size of 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)
- Sitatunga with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Llama with a size of 1.66 meter (5′ 6″)
- South American fur seal with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 6″)
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)