It is hard to guess what a Sumatran serow weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sumatran serow (Capricornis sumatraensis) on average weights 110.94 kg (244.58 lbs).
The Sumatran serow is from the family Bovidae (genus: Capricornis). It is usually born with about 4.1 kg (9.04 lbs). They can live for up to 21 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.45 meter (4′ 10″). Usually, Sumatran serows 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 Sumatran serow (Capricornis sumatraensis), also known as the southern serow, is a species of goat-antelope native to mountain forests in the Thai-Malay Peninsula and on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The former name of this species is “mainland serow”, as all the mainland species of serow (Chinese, red and Himalayan) were previously considered subspecies of this species. The Sumatran serow is threatened due to habitat loss and hunting, leading to it being evaluated as vulnerable by the IUCN.
Animals of the same family as a Sumatran serow
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Mongolian gazelle bringing 28.22 kilos (62.21 lbs) to the scale
- Waterbuck bringing 203.2 kilos (447.98 lbs) to the scale
- Chinkara bringing 18.91 kilos (41.69 lbs) to the scale
- Red gazelle bringing 40 kilos (88.18 lbs) to the scale
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis bringing 110 kilos (242.51 lbs) to the scale
- Tibetan antelope bringing 32.66 kilos (72 lbs) to the scale
- Bharal bringing 52.16 kilos (114.99 lbs) to the scale
- Muskox bringing 312.67 kilos (689.32 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain gazelle bringing 21.25 kilos (46.85 lbs) to the scale
- Oribi bringing 17.16 kilos (37.83 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Sumatran serow
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Capricornis sumatraensis:
- Eld’s deer with a weight of 94.7 kilos (208.78 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)
- Arctocephalus forsteri with a weight of 101.13 kilos (222.95 lbs)
- Ribbon seal with a weight of 90 kilos (198.42 lbs)
- Schomburgk’s deer with a weight of 106 kilos (233.69 lbs)
- Siberian ibex with a weight of 130 kilos (286.6 lbs)
- Guadalupe fur seal with a weight of 101.03 kilos (222.73 lbs)
- Reindeer with a weight of 108.73 kilos (239.71 lbs)
- Argali with a weight of 113.67 kilos (250.6 lbs)
- Hourglass dolphin with a weight of 110 kilos (242.51 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sumatran serow
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sumatran serow:
- Baikal seal with a size of 1.27 meter (4′ 3″)
- Javan rusa with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Vicuña with a size of 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Guadalupe fur seal with a size of 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Spotted hyena with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Barbary sheep with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Mountain reedbuck with a size of 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)
- Markhor with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sumatran serow
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Sumatran serow:
- Aye-aye
- Long-footed potoroo
- Montane fish-eating rat
- Tufted capuchin
- Common tsessebe
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby
- Tenkile
- Dwarf slit-faced bat
- Lowland paca
- Blue whale
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Sumatran serow
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Sumatran serow:
- Guadalupe fur seal with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Black bearded saki with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with an average maximal age of 17.08 years
- Finless porpoise with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Guatemalan black howler with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Bohor reedbuck with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Marsh mongoose with an average maximal age of 17.42 years
- Red-shanked douc with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Muskox with an average maximal age of 24 years
- African brush-tailed porcupine with an average maximal age of 22.83 years