How big does a Kob get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Kob (Kobus kob) reaches an average size of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 21.92 years, they grow from 5.39 kg (11.88 lbs) to 79.77 kg (175.86 lbs). A Kob has 1 babies at once. The Kob (genus: Kobus) is a member of the family Bovidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The kob (Kobus kob) is an antelope found across Central Africa and parts of West Africa and East Africa. Together with the closely related reedbucks, waterbucks, lechwe, Nile lechwe, and puku, it forms the Reduncinae tribe. Found along the northern savanna, it is often seen in Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda; Garamba and Virunga National Park, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as grassy floodplains of South Sudan.Kob are found in wet areas (such as floodplains), where they eat grasses. Kob are diurnal, but inactive during the heat of the day. They live in groups of either females and calves or just males. These groups generally range from five to 40 animals.Among the kobs of eastern Africa, the Ugandan kob (Kobus kob thomasi) appears on the coat of arms of Uganda, and white-eared kobs (Kobus kob leucotis), found in South Africa, southwest Ethiopia, and extreme northeast Uganda, participate in large-scale migrations.
Animals of the same family as a Kob
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Hirola with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Four-horned antelope with a size of 100 cm (3′ 4″)
- Przewalski’s gazelle bringing 27.5 kilos (60.63 lbs) to the scale
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Banteng with a size of 2.08 meter (6′ 10″)
- Urial with 1 babies per litter
- Arabian gazelle with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Salt’s dik-dik with a size of 59.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Takin with a size of 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Markhor with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
Animals with the same size as a Kob
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Kob:
- Harbour porpoise with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Argali with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Takin with a size of 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Asian black bear with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Llama with a size of 1.66 meter (5′ 6″)
- California sea lion with a size of 2.02 meter (6′ 8″)
- Hartebeest with a size of 1.98 meter (6′ 6″)
- Brown fur seal with a size of 1.91 meter (6′ 3″)
- Lesser kudu with a size of 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
- Lion with a size of 1.84 meter (6′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Kob
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Kob:
- Silver fruit-eating bat
- Northern ghost bat
- Agile gibbon
- North American porcupine
- Red brocket
- Peters’s flat-headed bat
- Guanaco
- Sumatran serow
- Black wallaroo
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Kob
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Kob:
- Bechstein’s bat with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Verreaux’s sifaka with an average maximal age of 20.58 years
- Mountain goat with an average maximal age of 19.17 years
- Fringed myotis with an average maximal age of 18.25 years
- Asian palm civet with an average maximal age of 22.42 years
- Three-striped night monkey with an average maximal age of 25.25 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat with an average maximal age of 21.17 years
- Impala with an average maximal age of 17.75 years
- Coyote with an average maximal age of 21.83 years
- Koala with an average maximal age of 20 years
Animals with the same weight as a Kob
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Kobus kob:
- Alpine ibex with a weight of 69.42 kilos (153.04 lbs)
- Nyala with a weight of 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs)
- Bushpig with a weight of 68.91 kilos (151.92 lbs)
- Hirola with a weight of 78.6 kilos (173.28 lbs)
- Red river hog with a weight of 70 kilos (154.32 lbs)
- Jaguar with a weight of 84.26 kilos (185.76 lbs)
- White-tailed deer with a weight of 75.6 kilos (166.67 lbs)
- Eld’s deer with a weight of 94.7 kilos (208.78 lbs)
- Nile lechwe with a weight of 85.5 kilos (188.5 lbs)
- Short-beaked common dolphin with a weight of 79.29 kilos (174.8 lbs)