How big does a Sable antelope get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) reaches an average size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 22.25 years, they grow from 16.46 kg (36.28 lbs) to 235.2 kg (518.53 lbs). A Sable antelope has 1 babies at once. The Sable antelope (genus: Hippotragus) 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 sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) is an antelope which inhabits wooded savanna in East and Southern Africa, from the south of Kenya to South Africa, with a separate population in Angola.
Animals of the same family as a Sable antelope
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- East African oryx with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Greater kudu with a size of 2.2 meter (7′ 3″)
- Zebra duiker with a size of 87.5 cm (2′ 11″)
- Tibetan antelope with 1 babies per litter
- Gemsbok with a size of 1.62 meter (5′ 4″)
- Saola with a size of 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Royal antelope with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Common tsessebe with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Weyns’s duiker with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Cattle with an average maximal age of 20 years
Animals with the same size as a Sable antelope
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sable antelope:
- Sambar deer with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- Marsh deer with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Baiji with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 8″)
- Pantropical spotted dolphin with a size of 2.14 meter (7′ 1″)
- Tiger with a size of 1.83 meter (6′ 0″)
- Caribbean monk seal with a size of 2.29 meter (7′ 7″)
- Spinner dolphin with a size of 2.13 meter (7′ 0″)
- Alpaca with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Saola with a size of 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Okapi with a size of 2 meter (6′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sable antelope
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Sable antelope:
- Black-footed mongoose
- Mona monkey
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
- Southern African vlei rat
- Ground pangolin
- Hirola
- Margay
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- Tibetan antelope
- Giant roundleaf bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Sable antelope
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Sable antelope:
- Mountain zebra with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Eurasian otter with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Mantled guereza with an average maximal age of 24.5 years
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat with an average maximal age of 24.5 years
- Egyptian fruit bat with an average maximal age of 22.83 years
- Goitered gazelle with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Gayal with an average maximal age of 26.17 years
- Common tsessebe with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Buru babirusa with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Beech marten with an average maximal age of 18.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Sable antelope
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hippotragus niger:
- Burchell’s zebra with a weight of 278.08 kilos (613.06 lbs)
- Melon-headed whale with a weight of 206 kilos (454.15 lbs)
- Brown bear with a weight of 196.14 kilos (432.41 lbs)
- Waterbuck with a weight of 203.2 kilos (447.98 lbs)
- Common bottlenose dolphin with a weight of 281.02 kilos (619.54 lbs)
- East African oryx with a weight of 200.58 kilos (442.2 lbs)
- Mountain zebra with a weight of 279.73 kilos (616.7 lbs)
- Philippine warty pig with a weight of 189.4 kilos (417.56 lbs)
- Okapi with a weight of 230 kilos (507.06 lbs)
- Kiang with a weight of 280.57 kilos (618.55 lbs)