It is hard to guess what a Bornean orangutan weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) on average weights 52.97 kg (116.78 lbs).
The Bornean orangutan is from the family Hominidae (genus: Pongo). It is usually born with about 1.65 kg (3.63 lbs). They can live for up to 60 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 89 cm (3′ 0″). Usually, Bornean orangutans 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 Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) is a species of orangutan native to the island of Borneo. Together with the Sumatran orangutan and Tapanuli orangutan, it belongs to the only genus of great apes native to Asia. Like the other great apes, orangutans are highly intelligent, displaying tool use and distinct cultural patterns in the wild. Orangutans share approximately 97% of their DNA with humans.The Bornean orangutan is a critically endangered species, with deforestation, palm oil plantations, and hunting posing a serious threat to its continued existence.
Animals of the same family as a Bornean orangutan
We found other animals of the Hominidae family:
- Sumatran orangutan bringing 39.7 kilos (87.52 lbs) to the scale
- Chimpanzee bringing 45.03 kilos (99.27 lbs) to the scale
- Bonobo bringing 35.15 kilos (77.49 lbs) to the scale
- Homo sapiens bringing 58.62 kilos (129.23 lbs) to the scale
- Western gorilla bringing 113.29 kilos (249.76 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern gorilla bringing 149.33 kilos (329.22 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Bornean orangutan
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pongo pygmaeus:
- Cougar with a weight of 53.93 kilos (118.9 lbs)
- Abbott’s duiker with a weight of 56.68 kilos (124.96 lbs)
- Brown hyena with a weight of 42.98 kilos (94.75 lbs)
- Homo sapiens with a weight of 58.62 kilos (129.23 lbs)
- Japanese serow with a weight of 42.6 kilos (93.92 lbs)
- Sun bear with a weight of 57.04 kilos (125.75 lbs)
- Vaquita with a weight of 43.11 kilos (95.04 lbs)
- Iberian ibex with a weight of 60.55 kilos (133.49 lbs)
- Burmeister’s porpoise with a weight of 60 kilos (132.28 lbs)
- Vicuña with a weight of 47.5 kilos (104.72 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Bornean orangutan
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bornean orangutan:
- Large Indian civet with a size of 81.9 cm (2′ 9″)
- Common duiker with a size of 96.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Fisher (animal) with a size of 75.1 cm (2′ 6″)
- African civet with a size of 79.2 cm (2′ 8″)
- Fishing cat with a size of 77.9 cm (2′ 7″)
- Maxwell’s duiker with a size of 84.5 cm (2′ 10″)
- Siamang with a size of 82.4 cm (2′ 9″)
- Falkland Islands wolf with a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Beira (antelope) with a size of 77.9 cm (2′ 7″)
- Hairy-nosed otter with a size of 76.5 cm (2′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bornean orangutan
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Bornean orangutan:
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- Silvery gibbon
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Crowned lemur
- Mindanao treeshrew
- Western long-tongued bat
- Whiskered bat
- Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
- Soemmerring’s gazelle
- Dwarf sperm whale
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Bornean orangutan
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Bornean orangutan:
- Horse with an average maximal age of 62 years
- Hippopotamus with an average maximal age of 54.5 years
- Short-finned pilot whale with an average maximal age of 63 years
- Colombian white-faced capuchin with an average maximal age of 54.75 years
- Caspian seal with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Common minke whale with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Caspian seal with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Brown bear with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Striped dolphin with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Bryde’s whale with an average maximal age of 72 years