It is hard to guess what a True’s beaked whale weights. But we have the answer:
An adult True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) on average weights 2100 kg (4629.7 lbs).
The True’s beaked whale is from the family Ziphiidae (genus: Mesoplodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.18 meter (17′ 0″).
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.
True’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon mirus) is a medium-sized whale in the genus Mesoplodon. The common name is in reference to Frederick W. True, a curator at the United States National Museum (now the Smithsonian). There are two distinct populations in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans (this species is absent in the tropics) which may be separate subspecies.
Animals of the same family as a True’s beaked whale
We found other animals of the Ziphiidae family:
- Sowerby’s beaked whale bringing 3400 kilos (7495.71 lbs) to the scale
- Southern bottlenose whale bringing 3000 kilos (6613.86 lbs) to the scale
- Gray’s beaked whale bringing 2900 kilos (6393.4 lbs) to the scale
- Hubbs’ beaked whale bringing 3400 kilos (7495.71 lbs) to the scale
- Hector’s beaked whale bringing 1000 kilos (2204.62 lbs) to the scale
- Northern bottlenose whale bringing 3391.68 kilos (7477.37 lbs) to the scale
- Stejneger’s beaked whale bringing 4800 kilos (10582.18 lbs) to the scale
- Berardius bringing 7000 kilos (15432.34 lbs) to the scale
- Berardius bringing 11390 kilos (25110.62 lbs) to the scale
- Strap-toothed whale bringing 1500 kilos (3306.93 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a True’s beaked whale
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mesoplodon mirus:
- White rhinoceros with a weight of 2272.97 kilos (5011.04 lbs)
- Blainville’s beaked whale with a weight of 2300 kilos (5070.63 lbs)
- Javan rhinoceros with a weight of 1740 kilos (3836.04 lbs)
- Shepherd’s beaked whale with a weight of 2500 kilos (5511.55 lbs)
- Indian rhinoceros with a weight of 1839.1 kilos (4054.52 lbs)
- Tropical bottlenose whale with a weight of 2200 kilos (4850.16 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a True’s beaked whale
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as True’s beaked whale:
- Beluga whale with a size of 4.25 meter (14′ 0″)
- Blainville’s beaked whale with a size of 4.59 meter (15′ 1″)
- Short-finned pilot whale with a size of 6.1 meter (20′ 1″)
- Hubbs’ beaked whale with a size of 5.4 meter (17′ 9″)
- Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale with a size of 4.88 meter (16′ 1″)
- Long-finned pilot whale with a size of 5.69 meter (18′ 9″)
- Northern giraffe with a size of 4.18 meter (13′ 9″)
- Common minke whale with a size of 5.53 meter (18′ 2″)
- Stejneger’s beaked whale with a size of 6.09 meter (20′ 0″)
- Sowerby’s beaked whale with a size of 5.03 meter (16′ 7″)