It is hard to guess what a Snow sheep weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Snow sheep (Ovis nivicola) on average weights 90 kg (198.42 lbs).
The Snow sheep is from the family Bovidae (genus: Ovis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.42 meter (4′ 8″). Usually, Snow sheeps 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 snow sheep (Ovis nivicola), or Siberian bighorn sheep, is a species of sheep from the mountainous areas in the northeast of Siberia. One subspecies, the Putorana snow sheep (Ovis nivicola borealis), lives isolated from the other forms in the Putoran Mountains.
Animals of the same family as a Snow sheep
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Thomson’s gazelle bringing 22.91 kilos (50.51 lbs) to the scale
- Dibatag bringing 28.05 kilos (61.84 lbs) to the scale
- Cape grysbok bringing 10.47 kilos (23.08 lbs) to the scale
- Kirk’s dik-dik bringing 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs) to the scale
- Goa (antelope) bringing 23.13 kilos (50.99 lbs) to the scale
- African buffalo bringing 592.83 kilos (1306.96 lbs) to the scale
- Sable antelope bringing 235.2 kilos (518.53 lbs) to the scale
- Saudi gazelle bringing 16 kilos (35.27 lbs) to the scale
- Addax bringing 95.39 kilos (210.3 lbs) to the scale
- Argali bringing 113.67 kilos (250.6 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Snow sheep
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ovis nivicola:
- White-tailed deer with a weight of 75.6 kilos (166.67 lbs)
- Schomburgk’s deer with a weight of 107.63 kilos (237.28 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)
- Buru babirusa with a weight of 92.33 kilos (203.55 lbs)
- Asian black bear with a weight of 99.81 kilos (220.04 lbs)
- Arctocephalus forsteri with a weight of 101.13 kilos (222.95 lbs)
- Bontebok with a weight of 77.24 kilos (170.28 lbs)
- Arabian oryx with a weight of 75.43 kilos (166.29 lbs)
- Subantarctic fur seal with a weight of 92.21 kilos (203.29 lbs)
- Nyala with a weight of 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs)
Animals with the same litter size as a Snow sheep
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Snow sheep: