It is hard to guess what a Antarctic fur seal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) on average weights 96.6 kg (212.97 lbs).
The Antarctic fur seal is from the family Otariidae (genus: Arctocephalus). It is usually born with about 5.8 kg (12.78 lbs). They can live for up to 23 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.57 meter (5′ 2″). Usually, Antarctic fur 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 Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella), is one of eight seals in the genus Arctocephalus, and one of nine fur seals in the subfamily Arctocephalinae. Despite what its name suggests, the Antarctic fur seal is mostly distributed in Subantarctic islands and its scientific name is thought to have come from the German vessel SMS Gazelle, which was the first to collect specimens of this species from Kerguelen Islands.
Animals of the same family as a Antarctic fur seal
We found other animals of the Otariidae family:
- New Zealand sea lion bringing 273.67 kilos (603.34 lbs) to the scale
- South American fur seal bringing 68.14 kilos (150.22 lbs) to the scale
- Galápagos fur seal bringing 39.47 kilos (87.02 lbs) to the scale
- Steller sea lion bringing 383.23 kilos (844.88 lbs) to the scale
- Guadalupe fur seal bringing 101.03 kilos (222.73 lbs) to the scale
- Northern fur seal bringing 55.58 kilos (122.53 lbs) to the scale
- Australian sea lion bringing 189.14 kilos (416.98 lbs) to the scale
- California sea lion bringing 137.6 kilos (303.36 lbs) to the scale
- Juan Fernández fur seal bringing 95 kilos (209.44 lbs) to the scale
- South American sea lion bringing 193.67 kilos (426.97 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Antarctic fur seal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Arctocephalus gazella:
- Marsh deer with a weight of 111.76 kilos (246.39 lbs)
- Nile lechwe with a weight of 85.5 kilos (188.5 lbs)
- Subantarctic fur seal with a weight of 92.21 kilos (203.29 lbs)
- Spotted seal with a weight of 99.02 kilos (218.3 lbs)
- Eld’s deer with a weight of 95.47 kilos (210.48 lbs)
- Lesser kudu with a weight of 93.81 kilos (206.82 lbs)
- Javan warty pig with a weight of 89.2 kilos (196.65 lbs)
- Ribbon seal with a weight of 90 kilos (198.42 lbs)
- Baiji with a weight of 112.07 kilos (247.07 lbs)
- Western gorilla with a weight of 113.29 kilos (249.76 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Antarctic fur seal
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Antarctic fur seal:
- Guadalupe fur seal with a size of 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Harbor seal with a size of 1.61 meter (5′ 4″)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Saola with a size of 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
- Ribbon seal with a size of 1.54 meter (5′ 1″)
- Ringed seal with a size of 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Hirola with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Barbary sheep with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Lesser kudu with a size of 1.68 meter (5′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Antarctic fur seal
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Antarctic fur seal:
- Red giant flying squirrel
- Taphozous philippinensis
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat
- Barasingha
- Niceforo’s big-eared bat
- Bohor reedbuck
- South Asian river dolphin
- Mexican free-tailed bat
- Peale’s free-tailed bat
- Subantarctic fur seal
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Antarctic fur seal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Antarctic fur seal:
- Chital with an average maximal age of 20.75 years
- Margay with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Lesser mouse-eared bat with an average maximal age of 19.75 years
- Tiger with an average maximal age of 26.25 years
- Anoa with an average maximal age of 22.5 years
- Sheep with an average maximal age of 19.17 years
- Scimitar oryx with an average maximal age of 20.42 years
- Indian hog deer with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Reindeer with an average maximal age of 20.17 years
- Nile lechwe with an average maximal age of 18.67 years