It is hard to guess what a Steenbok weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Steenbok (Raphicerus campestris) on average weights 11.64 kg (25.66 lbs).
The Steenbok is from the family Bovidae (genus: Raphicerus). It is usually born with about 916 grams (2.02 lbs). They can live for up to 14 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 82.4 cm (2′ 9″). Usually, Steenboks 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 steenbok (Raphicerus campestris) is a common small antelope of southern and eastern Africa. It is sometimes known as the steinbuck or steinbok.
Animals of the same family as a Steenbok
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Bharal bringing 52.16 kilos (114.99 lbs) to the scale
- Arabian gazelle bringing 18.06 kilos (39.82 lbs) to the scale
- Red-fronted gazelle bringing 27 kilos (59.52 lbs) to the scale
- Arabian tahr bringing 22.06 kilos (48.63 lbs) to the scale
- West Caucasian tur bringing 60.73 kilos (133.89 lbs) to the scale
- Sheep bringing 37.47 kilos (82.61 lbs) to the scale
- Yellow-backed duiker bringing 61.65 kilos (135.91 lbs) to the scale
- Hirola bringing 78.6 kilos (173.28 lbs) to the scale
- Dwarf blue sheep bringing 29.27 kilos (64.53 lbs) to the scale
- Thomson’s gazelle bringing 22.6 kilos (49.82 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Steenbok
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Raphicerus campestris:
- Sulawesi bear cuscus with a weight of 10 kilos (22.05 lbs)
- Tibetan macaque with a weight of 10.6 kilos (23.37 lbs)
- Black musk deer with a weight of 13.6 kilos (29.98 lbs)
- Barbary macaque with a weight of 11.49 kilos (25.33 lbs)
- Crested porcupine with a weight of 13.4 kilos (29.54 lbs)
- Pennant’s colobus with a weight of 10.9 kilos (24.03 lbs)
- Nilgiri langur with a weight of 10.6 kilos (23.37 lbs)
- Tenkile with a weight of 9.98 kilos (22 lbs)
- Northern plains gray langur with a weight of 12.64 kilos (27.87 lbs)
- Black snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 11 kilos (24.25 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Steenbok
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Steenbok:
- Short-eared dog with a size of 83.3 cm (2′ 9″)
- Siberian musk deer with a size of 90 cm (3′ 0″)
- Japanese macaque with a size of 82.7 cm (2′ 9″)
- Falkland Islands wolf with a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Fossa (animal) with a size of 72.7 cm (2′ 5″)
- Malabar large-spotted civet with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Buru babirusa with a size of 95 cm (3′ 2″)
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 85.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Honey badger with a size of 68.4 cm (2′ 3″)
- Sulawesi palm civet with a size of 68.9 cm (2′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Steenbok
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Steenbok:
- Black rhinoceros
- Four-toed elephant shrew
- Rhinolophus simplex
- Long-tailed pangolin
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Lesser tree mouse
- Indian rhinoceros
- Tricolored bat
- Siamang
- Harbor seal
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Steenbok
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Steenbok:
- Maxwell’s duiker with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
- Mountain pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Ground cuscus with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Long-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 11.25 years
- Natterer’s bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Pronghorn with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Iberian ibex with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Greater bamboo lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Swamp wallaby with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Pygmy marmoset with an average maximal age of 15.08 years