It is hard to guess what a Sitatunga weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) on average weights 75.28 kg (165.96 lbs).
The Sitatunga is from the family Bovidae (genus: Tragelaphus). It is usually born with about 4 kg (8.82 lbs). They can live for up to 21.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.52 meter (5′ 0″). Usually, Sitatungas 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 sitatunga or marshbuck (Tragelaphus spekii) is a swamp-dwelling antelope found throughout central Africa, centering on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, parts of Southern Sudan, Ghana, Botswana, Rwanda, Zambia, Gabon, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.The sitatunga is confined to swampy and marshy habitats. Here they occur in tall and dense vegetation as well as seasonal swamps, marshy clearings in forests, riparian thickets and mangrove swamps.
Animals of the same family as a Sitatunga
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Anoa bringing 256 kilos (564.38 lbs) to the scale
- Puku bringing 71.23 kilos (157.04 lbs) to the scale
- Red hartebeest bringing 176.12 kilos (388.28 lbs) to the scale
- Arabian oryx bringing 75.43 kilos (166.29 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow-backed duiker bringing 61.65 kilos (135.91 lbs) to the scale
- Gemsbok bringing 187.6 kilos (413.59 lbs) to the scale
- Alpine ibex bringing 69.42 kilos (153.04 lbs) to the scale
- Black duiker bringing 19 kilos (41.89 lbs) to the scale
- Water buffalo bringing 924.25 kilos (2037.62 lbs) to the scale
- Kouprey bringing 788.66 kilos (1738.7 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Sitatunga
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tragelaphus spekii:
- Wild boar with a weight of 84.49 kilos (186.27 lbs)
- Nilgiri tahr with a weight of 73.94 kilos (163.01 lbs)
- Common warthog with a weight of 82.5 kilos (181.88 lbs)
- South Andean deer with a weight of 69.02 kilos (152.16 lbs)
- Iberian ibex with a weight of 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs)
- Nyala with a weight of 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs)
- Commerson’s dolphin with a weight of 72.4 kilos (159.61 lbs)
- South American fur seal with a weight of 68.14 kilos (150.22 lbs)
- Lechwe with a weight of 88.02 kilos (194.05 lbs)
- Short-beaked common dolphin with a weight of 79.29 kilos (174.8 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sitatunga
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sitatunga:
- Markhor with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Alpaca with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Dibatag with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Hirola with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Spotted hyena with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Common warthog with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Cougar with a size of 1.4 meter (4′ 8″)
- Anoa with a size of 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Baikal seal with a size of 1.28 meter (4′ 3″)
- Nilgiri tahr with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sitatunga
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Sitatunga:
- Townsend’s big-eared bat
- Hector’s dolphin
- White-bellied free-tailed bat
- Pig-tailed langur
- Giant panda
- Rio Beni titi
- Western broad-nosed bat
- Bactrian camel
- Aba roundleaf bat
- Fraser’s dolphin
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Sitatunga
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Sitatunga:
- Domestic yak with an average maximal age of 22.25 years
- Guadalupe fur seal with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Leopard with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Purple-faced langur with an average maximal age of 23 years
- South American sea lion with an average maximal age of 24.75 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with an average maximal age of 22.83 years
- Dusky leaf monkey with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Lesser kudu with an average maximal age of 18.92 years
- Risso’s dolphin with an average maximal age of 20 years