How big does a Guanaco get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Guanaco (Lama guanicoe) reaches an average size of 1.47 meter (4′ 11″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 28.25 years, they grow from 11.5 kg (25.35 lbs) to 95.5 kg (210.54 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Guanacos have 1 babies about 1 times per year. The Guanaco (genus: Lama) is a member of the family Camelidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is a camelid native to South America, closely related to the llama. Its name comes from the Quechua word huanaco (modern spelling wanaku). Young guanacos are called chulengos.
Animals of the same family as a Guanaco
We found other animals of the Camelidae family:
- Llama with a size of 1.66 meter (5′ 6″)
- Bactrian camel with 1 babies per litter
- Dromedary with 1 babies per litter
- Vicuña with a size of 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Alpaca with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
Animals with the same size as a Guanaco
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Guanaco:
- Capybara with a size of 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Guadalupe fur seal with a size of 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Yellow-backed duiker with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 5″)
- Sloth bear with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Kob with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
- Brown hyena with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Brown hyena with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Common tsessebe with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Guanaco
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Guanaco:
- Common brushtail possum
- Hoffmann’s rat
- Grant’s forest shrew
- Cuban solenodon
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat
- Sei whale
- Ryukyu flying fox
- Homo sapiens
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Thomas’s rope squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Guanaco
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Guanaco:
- Antarctic fur seal with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Ring-tailed lemur with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Finless porpoise with an average maximal age of 23 years
- American badger with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Black-headed spider monkey with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Sun bear with an average maximal age of 24.75 years
- Mantled guereza with an average maximal age of 24.5 years
- Grey-cheeked mangabey with an average maximal age of 32.67 years
- Sunda slow loris with an average maximal age of 26.5 years
- Greater kudu with an average maximal age of 23 years
Animals with the same weight as a Guanaco
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lama guanicoe:
- Wild boar with a weight of 84.49 kilos (186.27 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)
- Bontebok with a weight of 77.24 kilos (170.28 lbs)
- Western gorilla with a weight of 113.29 kilos (249.76 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)
- Ribbon seal with a weight of 90 kilos (198.42 lbs)
- Hirola with a weight of 78.6 kilos (173.28 lbs)
- Nile lechwe with a weight of 85.5 kilos (188.5 lbs)
- Common warthog with a weight of 82.5 kilos (181.88 lbs)
- Short-beaked common dolphin with a weight of 79.29 kilos (174.8 lbs)