It is hard to guess what a Asian black bear weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus) on average weights 99.81 kg (220.04 lbs).
The Asian black bear is from the family Ursidae (genus: Ursus). It is usually born with about 362 grams (0.8 lbs). They can live for up to 35.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.51 meter (5′ 0″). Usually, Asian black bears have 2 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 Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus, previously known as Selenarctos thibetanus), also known as the Asiatic black bear, moon bear and white-chested bear, is a medium-sized bear species native to Asia that is largely adapted to an arboreal lifestyle. It lives in the Himalayas, in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, the Korean Peninsula, northeastern China, the Russian Far East, the Honshū and Shikoku islands of Japan, and Taiwan. It is classified as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), mostly because of deforestation and hunting for its body parts. Although largely herbivorous, Asian black bears can be very aggressive toward humans, who frequently trap or kill them for traditional medicine.
Animals of the same family as a Asian black bear
We found other animals of the Ursidae family:
- Sun bear bringing 57.04 kilos (125.75 lbs) to the scale
- Spectacled bear bringing 123.09 kilos (271.37 lbs) to the scale
- Brown bear bringing 196.14 kilos (432.41 lbs) to the scale
- Sloth bear bringing 99.45 kilos (219.25 lbs) to the scale
- Red panda bringing 5.17 kilos (11.4 lbs) to the scale
- Polar bear bringing 373.35 kilos (823.09 lbs) to the scale
- Giant panda bringing 118 kilos (260.15 lbs) to the scale
- American black bear bringing 110.75 kilos (244.16 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Asian black bear
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ursus thibetanus:
- Hourglass dolphin with a weight of 110 kilos (242.51 lbs)
- American black bear with a weight of 110.75 kilos (244.16 lbs)
- Eld’s deer with a weight of 95.47 kilos (210.48 lbs)
- Dall’s porpoise with a weight of 106.03 kilos (233.76 lbs)
- Argali with a weight of 113.67 kilos (250.6 lbs)
- Antarctic fur seal with a weight of 96.6 kilos (212.97 lbs)
- Sloth bear with a weight of 99.45 kilos (219.25 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)
- Baiji with a weight of 112.07 kilos (247.07 lbs)
- Ribbon seal with a weight of 90 kilos (198.42 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Asian black bear
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Asian black bear:
- Ribbon seal with a size of 1.54 meter (5′ 1″)
- Impala with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Leopard with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Bornean bearded pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Bawean deer with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Antarctic fur seal with a size of 1.57 meter (5′ 2″)
- Javan rusa with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Guadalupe fur seal with a size of 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Vicuña with a size of 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Dama gazelle with a size of 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Asian black bear
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Asian black bear:
- Red tree vole
- Greater bilby
- White-lipped peccary
- Jaguarundi
- Mexican woodrat
- Indian grey mongoose
- Highveld gerbil
- True’s vole
- Himalayan striped squirrel
- Common genet
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Asian black bear
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Asian black bear:
- Crested servaline genet with an average maximal age of 34 years
- Crabeater seal with an average maximal age of 39 years
- Lar gibbon with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Northern fur seal with an average maximal age of 35 years
- Japanese macaque with an average maximal age of 33 years
- Ribbon seal with an average maximal age of 31 years
- Anoa with an average maximal age of 36 years
- Wolf with an average maximal age of 29.5 years
- Mona monkey with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Sumatran rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 35 years