It is hard to guess what a Common warthog weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) on average weights 82.5 kg (181.88 lbs).
The Common warthog is from the family Suidae (genus: Phacochoerus). They can live for up to 15 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.36 meter (4′ 6″).
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 common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) is a wild member of the pig family (Suidae) found in grassland, savanna, and woodland in sub-Saharan Africa. In the past, it was commonly treated as a subspecies of P. aethiopicus, but today that scientific name is restricted to the desert warthog of northern Kenya, Somalia, and eastern Ethiopia.
Animals of the same family as a Common warthog
We found other animals of the Suidae family:
- Giant forest hog bringing 196.57 kilos (433.36 lbs) to the scale
- Javan warty pig bringing 89.2 kilos (196.65 lbs) to the scale
- Wild boar bringing 84.49 kilos (186.27 lbs) to the scale
- Pygmy hog bringing 7.92 kilos (17.46 lbs) to the scale
- Celebes warty pig bringing 53.46 kilos (117.86 lbs) to the scale
- Bornean bearded pig bringing 135.4 kilos (298.51 lbs) to the scale
- Visayan warty pig bringing 189.4 kilos (417.56 lbs) to the scale
- Desert warthog bringing 75.61 kilos (166.69 lbs) to the scale
- Bushpig bringing 68.91 kilos (151.92 lbs) to the scale
- Philippine warty pig bringing 189.4 kilos (417.56 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Common warthog
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phacochoerus africanus:
- Saola with a weight of 97.84 kilos (215.7 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 66.38 kilos (146.34 lbs)
- Arabian oryx with a weight of 75.43 kilos (166.29 lbs)
- Jaguar with a weight of 84.26 kilos (185.76 lbs)
- Dama gazelle with a weight of 70.4 kilos (155.21 lbs)
- Red river hog with a weight of 70 kilos (154.32 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 93.49 kilos (206.11 lbs)
- Mountain goat with a weight of 71.84 kilos (158.38 lbs)
- Harbor seal with a weight of 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Common warthog
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common warthog:
- American black bear with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Sumatran serow with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Nilgiri tahr with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Spotted hyena with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Philippine deer with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Caspian seal with a size of 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Roan antelope with a size of 1.15 meter (3′ 10″)
- Ringed seal with a size of 1.29 meter (4′ 3″)
- Maned wolf with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Common warthog
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Common warthog:
- Southern reedbuck with an average maximal age of 16.75 years
- Short-eared possum with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Nilgiri tahr with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Black-footed cat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Capybara with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Speke’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with an average maximal age of 14.33 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- North American porcupine with an average maximal age of 18 years