It is hard to guess what a Baikal seal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Baikal seal (Pusa sibirica) on average weights 89.5 kg (197.31 lbs).
The Baikal seal is from the family Phocidae (genus: Pusa). It is usually born with about 3.05 kg (6.72 lbs). They can live for up to 56 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.27 meter (4′ 3″). Usually, Baikal seals 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.
The Baikal seal, Lake Baikal seal or nerpa (Pusa sibirica), is a species of earless seal endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. Like the Caspian seal, it is related to the Arctic ringed seal. The Baikal seal is one of the smallest true seals and the only exclusively freshwater pinniped species. A subpopulation of inland harbour seals living in the Hudson’s Bay region of Quebec, Canada (Lacs des Loups Marins harbour seals), the Saimaa ringed seal (a ringed seal subspecies) and the Ladoga seal (a ringed seal subspecies) are found in fresh water, but these are part of species that also have marine populations.The most recent population estimates are 80,000 to 100,000 animals, roughly equaling the expected carrying capacity of the lake. At present, the species is not considered threatened.
Animals of the same family as a Baikal seal
We found other animals of the Phocidae family:
- Ross seal bringing 208.63 kilos (459.95 lbs) to the scale
- Northern elephant seal bringing 1116.2 kilos (2460.8 lbs) to the scale
- Ribbon seal bringing 90 kilos (198.42 lbs) to the scale
- Ringed seal bringing 70.96 kilos (156.44 lbs) to the scale
- Ringed seal bringing 71.1 kilos (156.75 lbs) to the scale
- Baikal seal bringing 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs) to the scale
- Harp seal bringing 132 kilos (291.01 lbs) to the scale
- Grey seal bringing 197.29 kilos (434.95 lbs) to the scale
- Hawaiian monk seal bringing 223 kilos (491.63 lbs) to the scale
- Southern elephant seal bringing 1600 kilos (3527.39 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Baikal seal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pusa sibirica:
- Antarctic fur seal with a weight of 96.6 kilos (212.97 lbs)
- Desert warthog with a weight of 75.61 kilos (166.69 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)
- Bighorn sheep with a weight of 74.63 kilos (164.53 lbs)
- Guadalupe fur seal with a weight of 101.03 kilos (222.73 lbs)
- Kob with a weight of 79.77 kilos (175.86 lbs)
- Harbor seal with a weight of 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs)
- Eld’s deer with a weight of 95.47 kilos (210.48 lbs)
- Walia ibex with a weight of 99.77 kilos (219.95 lbs)
- Common warthog with a weight of 82.5 kilos (181.88 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Baikal seal
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Baikal seal:
- Calamian deer with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Puku with a size of 1.34 meter (4′ 5″)
- Nilgiri tahr with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Blackbuck with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Barbary sheep with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Impala with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Maned wolf with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Giant anteater with a size of 1.12 meter (3′ 9″)
- Snow leopard with a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Baikal seal
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Baikal seal:
- Preuss’s red colobus
- Hector’s dolphin
- Van Gelder’s bat
- Rahm’s brush-furred rat
- Northern brushtail possum
- Brown fur seal
- Short-footed Luzon tree rat
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat
- Mountain nyala
- Long-nosed potoroo
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Baikal seal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Baikal seal:
- Horse with an average maximal age of 62 years
- Tufted capuchin with an average maximal age of 45.08 years
- Ringed seal with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Bornean orangutan with an average maximal age of 60 years
- Long-finned pilot whale with an average maximal age of 45 years
- White rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Striped dolphin with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Black rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 47 years
- Colombian white-faced capuchin with an average maximal age of 54.75 years
- Bonobo with an average maximal age of 48 years