It is hard to guess what a Brown hyena weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea) on average weights 43.4 kg (95.68 lbs).
The Brown hyena is from the family Hyaenidae (genus: Parahyaena). 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 8.29 kilos (18.28 lbs) to the scale
- Spotted hyena bringing 63.69 kilos (140.41 lbs) to the scale
- Brown hyena bringing 42.98 kilos (94.75 lbs) to the scale
- Striped hyena bringing 35.09 kilos (77.36 lbs) to the scale
- Aardwolf bringing 8.14 kilos (17.95 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 Parahyaena brunnea:
- Japanese serow with a weight of 42.6 kilos (93.92 lbs)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a weight of 48.5 kilos (106.92 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer with a weight of 46.48 kilos (102.47 lbs)
- Sheep with a weight of 37.47 kilos (82.61 lbs)
- Nubian ibex with a weight of 47.68 kilos (105.12 lbs)
- Calamian deer with a weight of 39.66 kilos (87.44 lbs)
- Philippine deer with a weight of 49.46 kilos (109.04 lbs)
- Chilean dolphin with a weight of 45 kilos (99.21 lbs)
- Capybara with a weight of 48.14 kilos (106.13 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:
- Striped hyena with a size of 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
- Yellow-backed duiker with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 5″)
- Capybara with a size of 1.21 meter (4′ 0″)
- Leopard with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a size of 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Saiga antelope with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Ringed seal with a size of 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Galápagos fur seal with a size of 1.36 meter (4′ 6″)
- Spotted hyena with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Baikal seal with a size of 1.27 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:
- Oecomys bicolor
- Chinese ferret-badger
- Siberian flying squirrel
- Moss-forest rat
- Volcano rabbit
- Eurasian lynx
- Western gray squirrel
- Red hocicudo
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Peters’s musk shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Brown hyena
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Brown hyena:
- Greater dwarf lemur with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Hartebeest with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Black-striped wallaby with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Pampas fox with an average maximal age of 13.67 years
- Beira (antelope) with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Tricolored bat with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Golden jackal with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Weyns’s duiker with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Royal antelope with an average maximal age of 14 years