It is hard to guess what a Sharpe’s grysbok weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sharpe’s grysbok (Raphicerus sharpei) on average weights 9.37 kg (20.67 lbs).
The Sharpe’s grysbok is from the family Bovidae (genus: Raphicerus). They can live for up to 14 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 67.9 cm (2′ 3″). Usually, Sharpe’s grysboks 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.
Sharpe’s or northern grysbok (Raphicerus sharpei) is a small, shy, solitary antelope that is found from tropical to south-eastern Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Sharpe’s grysbok
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Common tsessebe bringing 133.5 kilos (294.32 lbs) to the scale
- Grant’s gazelle bringing 55.46 kilos (122.27 lbs) to the scale
- Waterbuck bringing 203.2 kilos (447.98 lbs) to the scale
- Anoa bringing 180.86 kilos (398.73 lbs) to the scale
- Grey rhebok bringing 22.62 kilos (49.87 lbs) to the scale
- Japanese serow bringing 42.6 kilos (93.92 lbs) to the scale
- Giant eland bringing 644.51 kilos (1420.9 lbs) to the scale
- Speke’s gazelle bringing 20 kilos (44.09 lbs) to the scale
- Black wildebeest bringing 156.55 kilos (345.13 lbs) to the scale
- Goat bringing 47.14 kilos (103.93 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Sharpe’s grysbok
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Raphicerus sharpei:
- Maxwell’s duiker with a weight of 8.56 kilos (18.87 lbs)
- Malayan porcupine with a weight of 8 kilos (17.64 lbs)
- Indian pangolin with a weight of 8.02 kilos (17.68 lbs)
- Tasmanian devil with a weight of 8.2 kilos (18.08 lbs)
- Aardwolf with a weight of 8.14 kilos (17.95 lbs)
- Patagonian mara with a weight of 8.03 kilos (17.7 lbs)
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 9.09 kilos (20.04 lbs)
- Stump-tailed macaque with a weight of 9.38 kilos (20.68 lbs)
- Tana River red colobus with a weight of 8.07 kilos (17.79 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a weight of 8.87 kilos (19.55 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sharpe’s grysbok
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sharpe’s grysbok:
- Müeller’s gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- African civet with a size of 79.2 cm (2′ 8″)
- Culpeo with a size of 72.4 cm (2′ 5″)
- Pampas cat with a size of 61.6 cm (2′ 1″)
- Celebes crested macaque with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Arctic fox with a size of 56.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Sechuran fox with a size of 56.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Wolverine with a size of 77.3 cm (2′ 7″)
- African golden cat with a size of 79.9 cm (2′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sharpe’s grysbok
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Sharpe’s grysbok:
- South African springhare
- Alpaca
- Caspian seal
- Pennant’s colobus
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum
- Van Gelder’s bat
- Taiwan vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Sharpe’s grysbok
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Sharpe’s grysbok:
- Crab-eating raccoon with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Pallas’s squirrel with an average maximal age of 16.08 years
- Harbour porpoise with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Pygmy hog with an average maximal age of 12 years
- South African springhare with an average maximal age of 14.5 years
- Tricolored bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Arctic fox with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Silver dik-dik with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Arabian tahr with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years