It is hard to guess what a Brown fur seal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brown fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus) on average weights 178.75 kg (394.08 lbs).
The Brown fur seal is from the family Otariidae (genus: Arctocephalus). It is usually born with about 5.75 kg (12.68 lbs). They can live for up to 21 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.91 meter (6′ 3″). Usually, Brown 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 brown fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus), also known as the Cape fur seal, South African fur seal and Australian fur seal, is a species of fur seal.
Animals of the same family as a Brown fur seal
We found other animals of the Otariidae family:
- Guadalupe fur seal bringing 101.03 kilos (222.73 lbs) to the scale
- South American sea lion bringing 194 kilos (427.7 lbs) to the scale
- Northern fur seal bringing 55.58 kilos (122.53 lbs) to the scale
- Juan Fernández fur seal bringing 95 kilos (209.44 lbs) to the scale
- California sea lion bringing 137.6 kilos (303.36 lbs) to the scale
- Steller sea lion bringing 383.23 kilos (844.88 lbs) to the scale
- Australian sea lion bringing 189.14 kilos (416.98 lbs) to the scale
- South American fur seal bringing 68.14 kilos (150.22 lbs) to the scale
- Subantarctic fur seal bringing 92.21 kilos (203.29 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 Brown fur seal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Arctocephalus pusillus:
- Anoa with a weight of 180.86 kilos (398.73 lbs)
- Bluebuck with a weight of 150 kilos (330.69 lbs)
- Black wildebeest with a weight of 156.55 kilos (345.13 lbs)
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin with a weight of 186.76 kilos (411.73 lbs)
- White-beaked dolphin with a weight of 186.82 kilos (411.87 lbs)
- Philippine warty pig with a weight of 189.4 kilos (417.56 lbs)
- Dwarf sperm whale with a weight of 183 kilos (403.45 lbs)
- South American tapir with a weight of 167.75 kilos (369.83 lbs)
- South American sea lion with a weight of 194 kilos (427.7 lbs)
- Lion with a weight of 158.75 kilos (349.98 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Brown fur seal
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Brown fur seal:
- Harp seal with a size of 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Giant forest hog with a size of 2.03 meter (6′ 8″)
- Pygmy hippopotamus with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Gemsbok with a size of 1.62 meter (5′ 4″)
- Takin with a size of 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Hawaiian monk seal with a size of 2.24 meter (7′ 5″)
- Sloth bear with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Arctocephalus forsteri with a size of 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Australian sea lion with a size of 1.8 meter (5′ 11″)
- Western gorilla with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Brown fur seal
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Brown fur seal:
- Lesser sheath-tailed bat
- Little bent-wing bat
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat
- Red-bellied titi
- Walia ibex
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- Rio Mayo titi
- Painted ringtail possum
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo
- Hottentot golden mole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Brown fur seal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Brown fur seal:
- Dama gazelle with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Red-rumped agouti with an average maximal age of 17.75 years
- Nilgai with an average maximal age of 21.67 years
- Mountain gazelle with an average maximal age of 18.25 years
- Reindeer with an average maximal age of 20.17 years
- Bechstein’s bat with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Western barbastelle with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Sitatunga with an average maximal age of 21.5 years
- Eastern grey kangaroo with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Sheep with an average maximal age of 19.17 years