It is hard to guess what a Baikal seal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Baikal seal (Phoca sibirica) on average weights 89.5 kg (197.31 lbs).
The Baikal seal is from the family Phocidae (genus: Phoca). 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 1.28 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:
- Ringed seal bringing 71.1 kilos (156.75 lbs) to the scale
- Northern elephant seal bringing 1116.2 kilos (2460.8 lbs) to the scale
- Ringed seal bringing 70.96 kilos (156.44 lbs) to the scale
- Hooded seal bringing 278.95 kilos (614.98 lbs) to the scale
- Ribbon seal bringing 90 kilos (198.42 lbs) to the scale
- Leopard seal bringing 352.84 kilos (777.88 lbs) to the scale
- Caribbean monk seal bringing 198.38 kilos (437.35 lbs) to the scale
- Harbor seal bringing 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs) to the scale
- Bearded seal bringing 280 kilos (617.29 lbs) to the scale
- Weddell seal bringing 400 kilos (881.85 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 Phoca sibirica:
- Eld’s deer with a weight of 94.7 kilos (208.78 lbs)
- Bighorn sheep with a weight of 74.63 kilos (164.53 lbs)
- White-tailed deer with a weight of 75.6 kilos (166.67 lbs)
- Nile lechwe with a weight of 85.5 kilos (188.5 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 75.99 kilos (167.53 lbs)
- Subantarctic fur seal with a weight of 92.21 kilos (203.29 lbs)
- Saola with a weight of 97.84 kilos (215.7 lbs)
- Guadalupe fur seal with a weight of 101.03 kilos (222.73 lbs)
- Hirola with a weight of 78.6 kilos (173.28 lbs)
- Ribbon seal with a weight of 90 kilos (198.42 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:
- Springbok with a size of 1.06 meter (3′ 6″)
- Oribi with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Caspian seal with a size of 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Black duiker with a size of 1.04 meter (3′ 6″)
- Calamian deer with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Rhim gazelle with a size of 1.03 meter (3′ 5″)
- Bawean deer with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Common warthog with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Sitatunga with a size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″)
- Philippine warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
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:
- Micronomus
- South Andean deer
- Dwarf sperm whale
- Alpaca
- Pygmy tarsier
- Angolan free-tailed bat
- Large slit-faced bat
- Dwarf musk deer
- Silvery lutung
- Striped possum
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Baikal seal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Baikal seal:
- Melon-headed whale with an average maximal age of 47 years
- Black rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 47 years
- Caspian seal with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Colombian white-faced capuchin with an average maximal age of 54.75 years
- Tufted capuchin with an average maximal age of 45.08 years
- Ringed seal with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Western gorilla with an average maximal age of 54 years
- Common bottlenose dolphin with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Grey seal with an average maximal age of 46.67 years
- Hippopotamus with an average maximal age of 54.5 years