It is hard to guess what a Giant pangolin weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Giant pangolin (Manis gigantea) on average weights 33 kg (72.75 lbs).
The Giant pangolin is from the family Manidae (genus: Manis). It is usually born with about 500 grams (1.1 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 54.3 cm (1′ 10″). Normally, Giant pangolins can have babies 1 times a year.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The giant pangolin (Smutsia gigantea) is the largest species in the family of pangolins or scaly anteaters. Members of the species inhabit Africa with a range stretching along the equator from West Africa to Uganda. It subsists almost entirely on ants and termites. The species was first described by Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger in 1815.
Animals of the same family as a Giant pangolin
We found other animals of the Manidae family:
- Tree pangolin bringing 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs) to the scale
- Sunda pangolin bringing 4.86 kilos (10.71 lbs) to the scale
- Ground pangolin bringing 11.92 kilos (26.28 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese pangolin bringing 4.67 kilos (10.3 lbs) to the scale
- Long-tailed pangolin bringing 2.75 kilos (6.06 lbs) to the scale
- Indian pangolin bringing 8.02 kilos (17.68 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Giant pangolin
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Manis gigantea:
- Finless porpoise with a weight of 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs)
- Sheep with a weight of 37.47 kilos (82.61 lbs)
- Dwarf blue sheep with a weight of 29.27 kilos (64.53 lbs)
- Wolf with a weight of 33.38 kilos (73.59 lbs)
- Mountain reedbuck with a weight of 29.2 kilos (64.37 lbs)
- Giant muntjac with a weight of 36.69 kilos (80.89 lbs)
- Gerenuk with a weight of 38.65 kilos (85.21 lbs)
- Himalayan goral with a weight of 28.75 kilos (63.38 lbs)
- Tibetan antelope with a weight of 32.66 kilos (72 lbs)
- Blackbuck with a weight of 36.1 kilos (79.59 lbs)