It is hard to guess what a Gervais’ beaked whale weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gervais’ beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus) on average weights 5600 kg (12345.87 lbs).
The Gervais’ beaked whale is from the family Ziphiidae (genus: Mesoplodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 6.71 meter (22′ 1″).
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.
Gervais’ beaked whale (Mesoplodon europaeus), sometimes known as the Antillian beaked whale, Gulf Stream beaked whale, or European beaked whale (from which its scientific name is derived) is the most frequently stranding type of mesoplodont whale off the coast of North America. It has also stranded off South America and Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Gervais’ beaked whale
We found other animals of the Ziphiidae family:
- True’s beaked whale bringing 2100 kilos (4629.7 lbs) to the scale
- Stejneger’s beaked whale bringing 4800 kilos (10582.18 lbs) to the scale
- Blainville’s beaked whale bringing 2300 kilos (5070.63 lbs) to the scale
- Hubbs’ beaked whale bringing 3400 kilos (7495.71 lbs) to the scale
- Cuvier’s beaked whale bringing 4772.5 kilos (10521.55 lbs) to the scale
- Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale bringing 1500 kilos (3306.93 lbs) to the scale
- Southern bottlenose whale bringing 3000 kilos (6613.86 lbs) to the scale
- Hector’s beaked whale bringing 1000 kilos (2204.62 lbs) to the scale
- Tropical bottlenose whale bringing 2200 kilos (4850.16 lbs) to the scale
- Gray’s beaked whale bringing 2900 kilos (6393.4 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Gervais’ beaked whale
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mesoplodon europaeus:
- African forest elephant with a weight of 4750 kilos (10471.95 lbs)
- Common minke whale with a weight of 5588.55 kilos (12320.63 lbs)
- Cuvier’s beaked whale with a weight of 4772.5 kilos (10521.55 lbs)
- Stejneger’s beaked whale with a weight of 4800 kilos (10582.18 lbs)
- Killer whale with a weight of 5629.17 kilos (12410.18 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Gervais’ beaked whale
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gervais’ beaked whale:
- Southern bottlenose whale with a size of 6.7 meter (22′ 0″)
- Stejneger’s beaked whale with a size of 6.09 meter (20′ 0″)
- Common minke whale with a size of 5.53 meter (18′ 2″)
- Long-finned pilot whale with a size of 5.69 meter (18′ 9″)
- Short-finned pilot whale with a size of 6.1 meter (20′ 1″)
- Hubbs’ beaked whale with a size of 5.4 meter (17′ 9″)
- Steller’s sea cow with a size of 7.63 meter (25′ 1″)