How big does a Saola get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) reaches an average size of 1.75 meter (5′ 9″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 97.84 kg (215.7 lbs). The Saola (genus: Pseudoryx) 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 saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), also called siola, Vu Quang ox, spindlehorn, Asian unicorn, or, infrequently, the Vu Quang bovid, is one of the world’s rarest large mammals, a forest-dwelling bovine found only in the Annamite Range of Vietnam and Laos. Related to cattle, goats, and antelopes, the species was described following a discovery of remains in 1992 in Vũ Quang Nature Reserve by a joint survey of the Vietnamese Ministry of Forestry and the World Wide Fund for Nature. Saolas have since been kept in captivity multiple times, although only for short periods. A living saola in the wild was first photographed in 1999 by a camera trap set by WWF and the Vietnamese government’s Forest Protection Department (SFNC).
Animals of the same family as a Saola
We found other animals of the Bovidae family:
- Red-flanked duiker with a size of 65 cm (2′ 2″)
- Dama gazelle with a size of 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a size of 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Walia ibex with 1 babies per litter
- Salt’s dik-dik with a size of 59.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Japanese serow with 1 babies per litter
- Sharpe’s grysbok with a size of 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Lesser kudu with a size of 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
- Alpine ibex with 1 babies per litter
- Japanese serow with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Saola
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Saola:
- Dall’s porpoise with a size of 1.97 meter (6′ 6″)
- Moose with a size of 2.1 meter (6′ 11″)
- Lesser kudu with a size of 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
- Southern reedbuck with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Asian black bear with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Cheetah with a size of 1.48 meter (4′ 11″)
- Alpaca with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Ribbon seal with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Australian sea lion with a size of 1.8 meter (5′ 11″)
- Polar bear with a size of 2 meter (6′ 7″)
Animals with the same weight as a Saola
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudoryx nghetinhensis:
- Baiji with a weight of 112.07 kilos (247.07 lbs)
- Schomburgk’s deer with a weight of 106 kilos (233.69 lbs)
- Argali with a weight of 113.67 kilos (250.6 lbs)
- Snow sheep with a weight of 90 kilos (198.42 lbs)
- Subantarctic fur seal with a weight of 92.21 kilos (203.29 lbs)
- Lechwe with a weight of 88.02 kilos (194.05 lbs)
- Schomburgk’s deer with a weight of 107.63 kilos (237.28 lbs)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with a weight of 110 kilos (242.51 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 93.49 kilos (206.11 lbs)
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with a weight of 109.85 kilos (242.18 lbs)