It is hard to guess what a Brown hyena weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brown hyena (Hyaena brunnea) on average weights 42.98 kg (94.75 lbs).
The Brown hyena is from the family Hyaenidae (genus: Hyaena). It is usually born with about 693 grams (1.53 lbs). They can live for up to 17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.2 meter (4′ 0″). Usually, Brown hyenas 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 brown hyena (Hyaena brunnea), also called strandwolf, is a species of hyena found in Namibia, Botswana, western and southern Zimbabwe, southern Mozambique and South Africa. It is currently the rarest species of hyena. The largest remaining brown hyena population is located in the southern Kalahari Desert and coastal areas in Southwest Africa. The global population of brown hyena is estimated by IUCN at a number between 4,000 and 10,000 and its conservation status is marked as near threatened in the IUCN Red List.
Animals of the same family as a Brown hyena
We found other animals of the Hyaenidae family:
- Aardwolf bringing 8.14 kilos (17.95 lbs) to the scale
- Aardwolf bringing 8.29 kilos (18.28 lbs) to the scale
- Striped hyena bringing 35.09 kilos (77.36 lbs) to the scale
- Brown hyena bringing 43.4 kilos (95.68 lbs) to the scale
- Spotted hyena bringing 63.69 kilos (140.41 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Brown hyena
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hyaena brunnea:
- Red kangaroo with a weight of 38.98 kilos (85.94 lbs)
- Pampas deer with a weight of 34.55 kilos (76.17 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer with a weight of 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs)
- Capybara with a weight of 47.5 kilos (104.72 lbs)
- Bohor reedbuck with a weight of 43.09 kilos (95 lbs)
- Vaquita with a weight of 43.11 kilos (95.04 lbs)
- Brown hyena with a weight of 43.4 kilos (95.68 lbs)
- Heaviside’s dolphin with a weight of 40 kilos (88.18 lbs)
- Vicuña with a weight of 47.5 kilos (104.72 lbs)
- Tucuxi with a weight of 42.82 kilos (94.4 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Brown hyena
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Brown hyena:
- Bohor reedbuck with a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Common wombat with a size of 98.6 cm (3′ 3″)
- Iberian ibex with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Philippine warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Wild boar with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Harnessed bushbuck with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a size of 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Bharal with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Ringed seal with a size of 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Brown hyena
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Brown hyena:
- Trinidad spiny pocket mouse
- Highland tuco-tuco
- Jaguarundi
- Brown hyena
- Mexican woodrat
- Chinese ferret-badger
- Eastern common cuscus
- Gray-bellied caenolestid
- African marsh rat
- Armored rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Brown hyena
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Brown hyena:
- Black-striped wallaby with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Kirk’s dik-dik with an average maximal age of 16.5 years
- Dhole with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Yellow-throated marten with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Nine-banded armadillo with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.5 years
- Pond bat with an average maximal age of 19.5 years
- Nabarlek with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Black howler with an average maximal age of 20.25 years
- Gray-bellied night monkey with an average maximal age of 18 years