How big does a Mountain zebra get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Mountain zebra (Equus zebra) reaches an average size of 2.35 meter (7′ 9″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 24 years, they grow from 29.5 kg (65.03 lbs) to 279.73 kg (616.7 lbs). A Mountain zebra has 1 babies at once. The Mountain zebra (genus: Equus) is a member of the family Equidae.
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 mountain zebra (Equus zebra) is a zebra species in the family Equidae.It is native to south-western Angola, Namibia, and South Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain zebra
We found other animals of the Equidae family:
- Plains zebra with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Horse with 1 babies per litter
- Equus onager bringing 205 kilos (451.95 lbs) to the scale
- Grévy’s zebra with a size of 2.7 meter (8′ 11″)
- Asinus with 1 babies per litter
- Burchell’s zebra with 1 babies per litter
- Onager with a size of 2.25 meter (7′ 5″)
- Kiang bringing 280.57 kilos (618.55 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mountain zebra
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mountain zebra:
- Crabeater seal with a size of 2.27 meter (7′ 6″)
- African buffalo with a size of 2.53 meter (8′ 4″)
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with a size of 2.21 meter (7′ 3″)
- Okapi with a size of 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Spinner dolphin with a size of 2.13 meter (7′ 0″)
- Short-beaked common dolphin with a size of 2.44 meter (8′ 1″)
- Ross seal with a size of 2.07 meter (6′ 10″)
- Reindeer with a size of 2.23 meter (7′ 4″)
- Malayan tapir with a size of 2.22 meter (7′ 4″)
- Grévy’s zebra with a size of 2.7 meter (8′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mountain zebra
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Mountain zebra:
- Green bush squirrel
- Chinese pangolin
- Kolan vole
- Venezuelan red howler
- Little free-tailed bat
- Davis’s round-eared bat
- Harp seal
- Pennant’s colobus
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby
- West Indian manatee
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Mountain zebra
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Mountain zebra:
- Barbary sheep with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Bald uakari with an average maximal age of 27 years
- Bahamian raccoon with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Northern viscacha with an average maximal age of 19.5 years
- Goitered gazelle with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Northern olingo with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Brown fur seal with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Black-fronted duiker with an average maximal age of 19.67 years
- Aardvark with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Fallow deer with an average maximal age of 25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain zebra
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Equus zebra:
- Common bottlenose dolphin with a weight of 281.02 kilos (619.54 lbs)
- Crabeater seal with a weight of 225 kilos (496.04 lbs)
- New Zealand sea lion with a weight of 273.67 kilos (603.34 lbs)
- Bongo (antelope) with a weight of 269.5 kilos (594.15 lbs)
- Anoa with a weight of 256 kilos (564.38 lbs)
- Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin with a weight of 280 kilos (617.29 lbs)
- Takin with a weight of 292.76 kilos (645.42 lbs)
- Red deer with a weight of 240.43 kilos (530.06 lbs)
- Okapi with a weight of 230 kilos (507.06 lbs)
- Muskox with a weight of 312.67 kilos (689.32 lbs)