Of course. One of the beauties of perl, however, is the ability to easily switch over to using a hash. The sort will have to be explicit, of course. instead of getting it as a freebie with the array.

As a bonus, you get the ability to properly handle negative and/or non-integer values. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

# http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=1207623

use strict;
use warnings;

my %data = 
(
      'car'        => 180,
      'motorcycle' => 150,
      'skate'      => 150,
      'bird'       => 120,
);

my ($n, %rank) = 1;
$rank{ $data{$_} + 0 } .= "$_\n" for sort keys %data;
$n += print s/^/$n - /gmr for @rank{ sort { $b <=> $a } keys %rank };

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