It is hard to guess what a Galápagos fur seal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Galápagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) on average weights 39.47 kg (87.03 lbs).
The Galápagos fur seal is from the family Otariidae (genus: Arctocephalus). It is usually born with about 3.5 kg (7.72 lbs). They can live for up to 22 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.36 meter (4′ 6″). Usually, Galápagos fur 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 Galápagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis) breeds on the Galápagos Islands in the eastern Pacific, west of mainland Ecuador.
Animals of the same family as a Galápagos fur seal
We found other animals of the Otariidae family:
- Antarctic fur seal bringing 96.6 kilos (212.97 lbs) to the scale
- South American fur seal bringing 68.14 kilos (150.22 lbs) to the scale
- South American sea lion bringing 194 kilos (427.7 lbs) to the scale
- Brown fur seal bringing 178.75 kilos (394.08 lbs) to the scale
- Australian sea lion bringing 189.14 kilos (416.98 lbs) to the scale
- Arctocephalus forsteri bringing 101.13 kilos (222.95 lbs) to the scale
- Subantarctic fur seal bringing 92.21 kilos (203.29 lbs) to the scale
- Juan Fernández fur seal bringing 95 kilos (209.44 lbs) to the scale
- Northern fur seal bringing 55.58 kilos (122.53 lbs) to the scale
- South American sea lion bringing 193.67 kilos (426.97 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Galápagos fur seal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Arctocephalus galapagoensis:
- Tibetan antelope with a weight of 32.66 kilos (72 lbs)
- Japanese serow with a weight of 43.03 kilos (94.86 lbs)
- Giant armadillo with a weight of 41.33 kilos (91.12 lbs)
- Red gazelle with a weight of 40 kilos (88.18 lbs)
- Chilean dolphin with a weight of 45 kilos (99.21 lbs)
- Finless porpoise with a weight of 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a weight of 41 kilos (90.39 lbs)
- Sumatran orangutan with a weight of 39.7 kilos (87.52 lbs)
- Bonobo with a weight of 35.15 kilos (77.49 lbs)
- Visayan spotted deer with a weight of 45.8 kilos (100.97 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Galápagos fur seal
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Galápagos fur seal:
- Sumatran serow with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Saiga antelope with a size of 1.16 meter (3′ 10″)
- Ribbon seal with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Caspian seal with a size of 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Barbary sheep with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Pronghorn with a size of 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Harnessed bushbuck with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Argali with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Caspian seal with a size of 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Galápagos fur seal
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Galápagos fur seal:
- Cape serotine
- Guadalupe fur seal
- Large-eared pied bat
- Delacour’s langur
- Long-tailed fruit bat
- Stump-tailed macaque
- Tana River red colobus
- Western woolly lemur
- Hershkovitz’s titi
- Bald uakari
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Galápagos fur seal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Galápagos fur seal:
- Fossa (animal) with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Reindeer with an average maximal age of 20.17 years
- Tana River mangabey with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Purple-faced langur with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Bechstein’s bat with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Desert warthog with an average maximal age of 18.75 years
- Short-beaked common dolphin with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Celebes crested macaque with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Black wildebeest with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Bontebok with an average maximal age of 21.67 years