What is the maximal age a Subantarctic fur seal reaches?
An adult Subantarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis) usually gets as old as 23 years.
Subantarctic fur seals are around 242 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 4.35 kg (9.59 lbs) and measure 6.27 meter (20′ 7″). As a member of the Otariidae family (genus: Arctocephalus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.63 meter (5′ 4″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The subantarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis) is found in the southern parts of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans. It was first described by Gray in 1872 from a specimen recovered in northern Australia—hence the inappropriate specific name tropicalis.
Animals of the same family as a Subantarctic fur seal
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Otariidae):
- Australian sea lion becoming 16 years old
- Juan Fernández fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Steller sea lion becoming 30 years old
- Northern fur seal becoming 35 years old
- Galápagos fur seal becoming 22 years old
- South American fur seal becoming 21 years old
- Arctocephalus forsteri becoming 15 years old
- South American sea lion becoming 24.75 years old
- California sea lion becoming 30 years old
- Guadalupe fur seal becoming 24 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Subantarctic fur seal
With an average age of 23 years, Subantarctic fur seal are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Proboscis monkey usually reaching 21 years
- Bighorn sheep usually reaching 24 years
- Tiger usually reaching 26.25 years
- Asian palm civet usually reaching 22.42 years
- Sun bear usually reaching 24.75 years
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo usually reaching 21 years
- Roan antelope usually reaching 20 years
- Mantled howler usually reaching 25 years
- Lechwe usually reaching 18.5 years
- American badger usually reaching 26 years
Animals with the same number of babies Subantarctic fur seal
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Yellow-tailed woolly monkey
- Narrow-faced kangaroo rat
- Coquerel’s sifaka
- Hirola
- Dwarf brocket
- White-tailed deer
- Fischer’s pygmy fruit bat
- Peters’s flat-headed bat
- Fraternal myotis
- Toolache wallaby
Weighting as much as Subantarctic fur seal
A fully grown Subantarctic fur seal reaches around 92.21 kg (203.29 lbs). So do these animals:
- Nilgiri tahr weighting 73.94 kilos (163.01 lbs) on average
- Reindeer weighting 108.73 kilos (239.71 lbs) on average
- Lesser kudu weighting 93.81 kilos (206.82 lbs) on average
- Asian black bear weighting 99.81 kilos (220.04 lbs) on average
- Juan Fernández fur seal weighting 95 kilos (209.44 lbs) on average
- Snow sheep weighting 90 kilos (198.42 lbs) on average
- White-tailed deer weighting 75.6 kilos (166.67 lbs) on average
- Atlantic humpback dolphin weighting 100 kilos (220.46 lbs) on average
- Hourglass dolphin weighting 110 kilos (242.51 lbs) on average
- South Asian river dolphin weighting 75.99 kilos (167.53 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Subantarctic fur seal
Those animals grow as big as a Subantarctic fur seal:
- Common warthog with 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Grant’s gazelle with 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Barasingha with 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Harbour porpoise with 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Ribbon seal with 1.54 meter (5′ 1″)
- Vaquita with 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Guadalupe fur seal with 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Bighorn sheep with 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Harbor seal with 1.61 meter (5′ 4″)