It is hard to guess what a Baird’s tapir weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Baird’s tapir (Tapirus bairdii) on average weights 292.39 kg (644.61 lbs).
The Baird’s tapir is from the family Tapiridae (genus: Tapirus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.2 meter (7′ 3″). Usually, Baird’s tapirs have 1 babies per litter.
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.
Baird’s tapir (Tapirus bairdii), also known as the Central American tapir, is a species of tapir native to Mexico, Central America and northwestern South America. It is one of three Latin American species of tapir.
Animals of the same family as a Baird’s tapir
We found other animals of the Tapiridae family:
- South American tapir bringing 167.75 kilos (369.83 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain tapir bringing 155.46 kilos (342.73 lbs) to the scale
- Malayan tapir bringing 309.61 kilos (682.57 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Baird’s tapir
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tapirus bairdii:
- Red deer with a weight of 240.43 kilos (530.06 lbs)
- Hooded seal with a weight of 278.95 kilos (614.98 lbs)
- Anoa with a weight of 256 kilos (564.38 lbs)
- Burchell’s zebra with a weight of 278.08 kilos (613.06 lbs)
- Muskox with a weight of 312.67 kilos (689.32 lbs)
- New Zealand sea lion with a weight of 273.67 kilos (603.34 lbs)
- Common bottlenose dolphin with a weight of 281.02 kilos (619.54 lbs)
- Kiang with a weight of 280.57 kilos (618.55 lbs)
- Mediterranean monk seal with a weight of 294.94 kilos (650.23 lbs)
- Mountain zebra with a weight of 279.73 kilos (616.7 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Baird’s tapir
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Baird’s tapir:
- Sambar deer with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- Red deer with a size of 2.14 meter (7′ 1″)
- Dwarf sperm whale with a size of 2.16 meter (7′ 2″)
- Giant forest hog with a size of 2.03 meter (6′ 8″)
- Pantropical spotted dolphin with a size of 2.14 meter (7′ 1″)
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with a size of 2.21 meter (7′ 3″)
- Brown fur seal with a size of 1.91 meter (6′ 3″)
- Mountain nyala with a size of 2.25 meter (7′ 5″)
- Bongo (antelope) with a size of 2.27 meter (7′ 6″)
- Striped dolphin with a size of 2.3 meter (7′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Baird’s tapir
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Baird’s tapir: