How big does a Nilgiri tahr get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Nilgiri tahr (Hemitragus hylocrius) reaches an average size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 17.25 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 73.94 kg (163.02 lbs). A Nilgiri tahr has 1 babies at once. The Nilgiri tahr (genus: Hemitragus) 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 Nilgiri tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius) is an ungulate that is endemic to the Nilgiri Hills and the southern portion of the Western & Eastern Ghats in the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala in Southern India. It is the state animal of Tamil Nadu. Despite its local name, it is more closely related to the sheep of the genus Ovis than the ibex and wild goats of the genus Capra.
Animals of the same family as a Nilgiri tahr
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Nilgai with a size of 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Puku with a size of 1.34 meter (4′ 5″)
- Saudi gazelle bringing 16 kilos (35.27 lbs) to the scale
- Arabian oryx with 1 babies per litter
- Chinkara bringing 18.91 kilos (41.69 lbs) to the scale
- Pyrenean chamois bringing 30 kilos (66.14 lbs) to the scale
- Bay duiker with a size of 84.9 cm (2′ 10″)
- Ruwenzori duiker bringing 15 kilos (33.07 lbs) to the scale
- Zebra duiker with a size of 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Red-flanked duiker with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
Animals with the same size as a Nilgiri tahr
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Nilgiri tahr:
- Vicuña with a size of 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Barasingha with a size of 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Barbary sheep with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Oribi with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Common warthog with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Pronghorn with a size of 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Taruca with a size of 1.55 meter (5′ 2″)
- Gerenuk with a size of 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Hirola with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- South American fur seal with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Nilgiri tahr
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Nilgiri tahr:
- Jamaican fruit bat
- Peale’s free-tailed bat
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum
- Crowned lemur
- Kolan vole
- Black dorcopsis
- Northern elephant seal
- Central American agouti
- Painted ringtail possum
- Mauritian tomb bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Nilgiri tahr
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Nilgiri tahr:
- Big brown bat with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Small-toothed palm civet with an average maximal age of 15.83 years
- West Caucasian tur with an average maximal age of 20.5 years
- Tayra with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Malabar large-spotted civet with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Silvery marmoset with an average maximal age of 16.75 years
- Equatorial saki with an average maximal age of 14.83 years
- Mountain gazelle with an average maximal age of 18.25 years
- Dama gazelle with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Japanese serow with an average maximal age of 18.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Nilgiri tahr
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hemitragus hylocrius:
- Spectacled porpoise with a weight of 65 kilos (143.3 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 66.38 kilos (146.34 lbs)
- Arabian oryx with a weight of 75.43 kilos (166.29 lbs)
- Bighorn sheep with a weight of 74.63 kilos (164.53 lbs)
- Australophocaena dioptrica with a weight of 65 kilos (143.3 lbs)
- Nile lechwe with a weight of 85.5 kilos (188.5 lbs)
- Common warthog with a weight of 82.5 kilos (181.88 lbs)
- Caspian seal with a weight of 62.33 kilos (137.41 lbs)
- White-tailed deer with a weight of 75.6 kilos (166.67 lbs)
- Pantropical spotted dolphin with a weight of 65.72 kilos (144.89 lbs)