It is hard to guess what a Caspian seal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Caspian seal (Pusa caspica) on average weights 62.33 kg (137.41 lbs).
The Caspian seal is from the family Phocidae (genus: Pusa). 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:
- Northern elephant seal bringing 1116.2 kilos (2460.8 lbs) to the scale
- Caspian seal bringing 62.3 kilos (137.35 lbs) to the scale
- Southern elephant seal bringing 1600 kilos (3527.39 lbs) to the scale
- Mediterranean monk seal bringing 294.94 kilos (650.23 lbs) to the scale
- Harp seal bringing 132 kilos (291.01 lbs) to the scale
- Leopard seal bringing 352.84 kilos (777.88 lbs) to the scale
- Spotted seal bringing 99.02 kilos (218.3 lbs) to the scale
- Ringed seal bringing 70.96 kilos (156.44 lbs) to the scale
- Bearded seal bringing 280 kilos (617.29 lbs) to the scale
- Baikal seal bringing 89.5 kilos (197.31 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 Pusa caspica:
- Red river hog with a weight of 70 kilos (154.32 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 65.8 kilos (145.06 lbs)
- Aardvark with a weight of 56.85 kilos (125.33 lbs)
- Bharal with a weight of 52.16 kilos (114.99 lbs)
- Caspian seal with a weight of 62.3 kilos (137.35 lbs)
- Alpaca with a weight of 64.9 kilos (143.08 lbs)
- Mountain goat with a weight of 71.84 kilos (158.38 lbs)
- Southern reedbuck with a weight of 57.94 kilos (127.74 lbs)
- Cheetah with a weight of 50.54 kilos (111.42 lbs)
- South Andean deer with a weight of 69.02 kilos (152.16 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:
- Javan warty pig with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Spotted hyena with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Eld’s deer with a size of 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Mountain goat with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Maned wolf with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Javan rusa with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Gerenuk with a size of 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Capybara with a size of 1.22 meter (4′ 0″)
- Southern reedbuck with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Dibatag with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
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:
- Black-shanked douc
- Harnessed bushbuck
- Black giant squirrel
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
- Aye-aye
- Japanese serow
- Nilgiri tahr
- Gray brocket
- Little yellow bat
- Jalapan pine vole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Caspian seal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Caspian seal:
- Short-beaked echidna with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Lar gibbon with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Ringed seal with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Mandrill with an average maximal age of 46.25 years
- Yellow baboon with an average maximal age of 45 years
- Caspian seal with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin with an average maximal age of 44 years
- Black capuchin with an average maximal age of 44 years
- Harp seal with an average maximal age of 42 years
- Pantropical spotted dolphin with an average maximal age of 46 years