How big does a Saiga antelope get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) reaches an average size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 12 years, they grow from 3.33 kg (7.34 lbs) to 37.57 kg (82.82 lbs). A Saiga antelope has 2 babies at once. The Saiga antelope (genus: Saiga) 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 saiga antelope (, Saiga tatarica) is a critically endangered antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast. During the Pleistocene, they also occurred in Beringian North America and the British Isles. Today, the dominant subspecies (S. t. tatarica) is only found in one region in Russia (in the Republic of Kalmykia and Astrakhan Oblast) and three areas in Kazakhstan (the Ural, Ustiurt, and Betpak-Dala populations). A portion of the Ustiurt population migrates south to Uzbekistan and occasionally Turkmenistan in winter. It is extinct in China and southwestern Mongolia. It was hunted extensively in Romania and Moldova until it became extinct in those regions at the end of the 18th century. The Mongolian subspecies (S. t. mongolica) is found only in western Mongolia.
Animals of the same family as a Saiga antelope
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Pyrenean chamois bringing 30 kilos (66.14 lbs) to the scale
- Maxwell’s duiker with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Goat with 1 babies per litter
- Günther’s dik-dik with a size of 61.2 cm (2′ 1″)
- Bay duiker with a size of 84.9 cm (2′ 10″)
- Harvey’s duiker bringing 14.5 kilos (31.97 lbs) to the scale
- Bontebok with 1 babies per litter
- Blue wildebeest with a size of 2.01 meter (6′ 8″)
- Goa (antelope) with a size of 98 cm (3′ 3″)
- Markhor with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
Animals with the same size as a Saiga antelope
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Saiga antelope:
- Iberian lynx with a size of 96.3 cm (3′ 2″)
- Mountain gazelle with a size of 1.01 meter (3′ 4″)
- Aardvark with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Striped hyena with a size of 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
- Pronghorn with a size of 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Puku with a size of 1.34 meter (4′ 5″)
- Springbok with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Mountain reedbuck with a size of 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)
- Common duiker with a size of 96.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Bharal with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Saiga antelope
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Saiga antelope:
- Mediterranean pine vole
- Least pygmy squirrel
- Common mole-rat
- Sarcophilus laniarius
- Western barred bandicoot
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat
- Angoni vlei rat
- Silvery marmoset
- European pine vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Saiga antelope
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Saiga antelope:
- Sugar glider with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Yellow-throated marten with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Llama with an average maximal age of 14.17 years
- Western tree hyrax with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Red-fronted gazelle with an average maximal age of 13.5 years
- Northern flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Maxwell’s duiker with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
- Mountain pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Raccoon dog with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Jaguarundi with an average maximal age of 10.58 years
Animals with the same weight as a Saiga antelope
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Saiga tatarica:
- Bohor reedbuck with a weight of 43.09 kilos (95 lbs)
- Vaquita with a weight of 43.11 kilos (95.04 lbs)
- Red kangaroo with a weight of 38.98 kilos (85.94 lbs)
- Sheep with a weight of 37.47 kilos (82.61 lbs)
- Heaviside’s dolphin with a weight of 40 kilos (88.18 lbs)
- Chamois with a weight of 33.11 kilos (72.99 lbs)
- Chilean dolphin with a weight of 45 kilos (99.21 lbs)
- Snow leopard with a weight of 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs)
- Japanese serow with a weight of 43.03 kilos (94.86 lbs)
- La Plata dolphin with a weight of 40.5 kilos (89.29 lbs)