It is hard to guess what a Caspian seal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Caspian seal (Phoca caspica) on average weights 62.3 kg (137.35 lbs).
The Caspian seal is from the family Phocidae (genus: Phoca). It is usually born with about 4.18 kg (9.22 lbs). They can live for up to 50 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.41 meter (4′ 8″). Usually, Caspian 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 Caspian seal (Pusa caspica) is one of the smallest members of the earless seal family and unique in that it is found exclusively in the brackish Caspian Sea. They are found not only along the shorelines, but also on the many rocky islands and floating blocks of ice that dot the Caspian Sea. In winter, and cooler parts of the spring and autumn season, these marine mammals populate the Northern Caspian. As the ice melts in the warmer season, they can be found on the mouths of the Volga and Ural Rivers, as well as the southern latitudes of the Caspian where cooler waters can be found due to greater depth.Evidence suggests the seals are descended from Arctic ringed seals that reached the area from the north during an earlier part of the Quaternary period and became isolated in the landlocked Caspian Sea when continental ice sheets melted.
Animals of the same family as a Caspian seal
We found other animals of the Phocidae family:
- Grey seal bringing 197.29 kilos (434.95 lbs) to the scale
- Caribbean monk seal bringing 198.38 kilos (437.35 lbs) to the scale
- Ribbon seal bringing 90 kilos (198.42 lbs) to the scale
- Weddell seal bringing 400 kilos (881.85 lbs) to the scale
- Hawaiian monk seal bringing 223 kilos (491.63 lbs) to the scale
- Ringed seal bringing 71.1 kilos (156.75 lbs) to the scale
- Ribbon seal bringing 90 kilos (198.42 lbs) to the scale
- Caspian seal bringing 62.33 kilos (137.41 lbs) to the scale
- Harp seal bringing 132.25 kilos (291.56 lbs) to the scale
- Leopard seal bringing 352.84 kilos (777.88 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Caspian seal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phoca caspica:
- Jentink’s duiker with a weight of 68 kilos (149.91 lbs)
- Cheetah with a weight of 50.54 kilos (111.42 lbs)
- Persian fallow deer with a weight of 74.4 kilos (164.02 lbs)
- Abbott’s duiker with a weight of 56.68 kilos (124.96 lbs)
- Yellow-backed duiker with a weight of 61.65 kilos (135.91 lbs)
- South Andean deer with a weight of 69.02 kilos (152.16 lbs)
- Ringed seal with a weight of 71.1 kilos (156.75 lbs)
- Bornean orangutan with a weight of 52.97 kilos (116.78 lbs)
- Southern reedbuck with a weight of 57.94 kilos (127.74 lbs)
- West Caucasian tur with a weight of 60.73 kilos (133.89 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Caspian seal
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Caspian seal:
- Sloth bear with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Anoa with a size of 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Brown bear with a size of 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- Brown hyena with a size of 1.2 meter (4′ 0″)
- Pronghorn with a size of 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Dibatag with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Spotted seal with a size of 1.64 meter (5′ 5″)
- Cheetah with a size of 1.48 meter (4′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Caspian seal
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Caspian seal:
- Lesser long-fingered bat
- Plains viscacha
- Sloggett’s vlei rat
- Parti-coloured bat
- Hector’s dolphin
- Southern muriqui
- Small flying fox
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox
- Servaline genet
- Long-tailed fruit bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Caspian seal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Caspian seal:
- Black crested gibbon with an average maximal age of 44.08 years
- Caspian seal with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Bonobo with an average maximal age of 48 years
- Burchell’s zebra with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Harp seal with an average maximal age of 42 years
- Ringed seal with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Walrus with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Pantropical spotted dolphin with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Narwhal with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Chimpanzee with an average maximal age of 60 years