It is hard to guess what a Takin weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Takin (Budorcas taxicolor) on average weights 292.76 kg (645.42 lbs).
The Takin is from the family Bovidae (genus: Budorcas). They can live for up to 19.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.74 meter (5′ 9″). Usually, Takins 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 takin (; Budorcas taxicolor; Tibetan: ར་རྒྱ་, Wylie: ra rgya), also called cattle chamois or gnu goat, is a large species of ungulate of the subfamily Caprinae found in the eastern Himalayas. The four subspecies are the Mishmi takin (B. t. taxicolor), the golden takin (B. t. bedfordi), the Tibetan (or Sichuan) takin (B. t. tibetana), and the Bhutan takin (B. t. whitei). Whilst the takin has in the past been placed together with the muskox in the tribe Ovibovini, more recent mitochondrial research shows a closer relationship to Ovis (sheep). Its physical similarity to the muskox is therefore an example of convergent evolution. The takin is the national animal of Bhutan.
Animals of the same family as a Takin
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Royal antelope bringing 3.9 kilos (8.6 lbs) to the scale
- Saiga antelope bringing 37.57 kilos (82.83 lbs) to the scale
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis bringing 110 kilos (242.51 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain gazelle bringing 21.25 kilos (46.85 lbs) to the scale
- Gerenuk bringing 38.65 kilos (85.21 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese goral with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Long-tailed goral bringing 27 kilos (59.52 lbs) to the scale
- Himalayan goral bringing 28.75 kilos (63.38 lbs) to the scale
- Pyrenean chamois bringing 30 kilos (66.14 lbs) to the scale
- Nyala bringing 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Takin
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Budorcas taxicolor:
- Tamaraw with a weight of 252.7 kilos (557.11 lbs)
- Roan antelope with a weight of 262.09 kilos (577.81 lbs)
- Muskox with a weight of 312.67 kilos (689.32 lbs)
- Mediterranean monk seal with a weight of 294.94 kilos (650.23 lbs)
- Anoa with a weight of 256 kilos (564.38 lbs)
- Sable antelope with a weight of 235.2 kilos (518.53 lbs)
- Baird’s tapir with a weight of 292.39 kilos (644.61 lbs)
- Mountain zebra with a weight of 279.73 kilos (616.7 lbs)
- Bongo (antelope) with a weight of 269.5 kilos (594.15 lbs)
- Red deer with a weight of 240.43 kilos (530.06 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Takin
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Takin:
- Harbour porpoise with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- New Zealand sea lion with a size of 2.02 meter (6′ 8″)
- Dall sheep with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Subantarctic fur seal with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 4″)
- Dama gazelle with a size of 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Ross seal with a size of 2.07 meter (6′ 10″)
- Barasingha with a size of 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Blue wildebeest with a size of 2.01 meter (6′ 8″)
- Lion with a size of 1.84 meter (6′ 1″)
- Polar bear with a size of 2 meter (6′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Takin
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Takin:
- Heart-nosed bat
- Jameson’s red rock hare
- Brown-throated sloth
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
- Honduran white bat
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
- Celebes crested macaque
- Hottentot golden mole
- Greater mouse-deer
- Narwhal
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Takin
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Takin:
- Thorold’s deer with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Lechwe with an average maximal age of 18.5 years
- Brown greater galago with an average maximal age of 18.75 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with an average maximal age of 22.83 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with an average maximal age of 22.83 years
- White-faced saki with an average maximal age of 20.67 years
- Egyptian mongoose with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Cacomistle with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Small-toothed palm civet with an average maximal age of 15.83 years
- Allen’s swamp monkey with an average maximal age of 23 years