It is hard to guess what a Ground pangolin weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ground pangolin (Manis temminckii) on average weights 11.92 kg (26.28 lbs).
The Ground pangolin is from the family Manidae (genus: Manis). It is usually born with about 345 grams (0.76 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 48.9 cm (1′ 8″). On average, Ground pangolins can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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.
The ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), also known as Temminck’s pangolin or Cape pangolin, is one of four species of pangolins which can be found in Africa, and the only one in southern and eastern Africa. The animal was named for the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. As a group, pangolins are among the most critically endangered animals in the world.
Animals of the same family as a Ground pangolin
We found other animals of the Manidae family:
- Giant pangolin bringing 33 kilos (72.75 lbs) to the scale
- Chinese pangolin bringing 4.67 kilos (10.3 lbs) to the scale
- Sunda pangolin bringing 4.86 kilos (10.71 lbs) to the scale
- Tree pangolin bringing 1.54 kilos (3.4 lbs) to the scale
- Indian pangolin bringing 8.02 kilos (17.68 lbs) to the scale
- Long-tailed pangolin bringing 2.75 kilos (6.06 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Ground pangolin
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Manis temminckii:
- Mantled guereza with a weight of 9.96 kilos (21.96 lbs)
- Black-shanked douc with a weight of 10.33 kilos (22.77 lbs)
- African golden cat with a weight of 11.29 kilos (24.89 lbs)
- Black-footed gray langur with a weight of 10.03 kilos (22.11 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 12.27 kilos (27.05 lbs)
- Gray snub-nosed monkey with a weight of 12.3 kilos (27.12 lbs)
- Pudú with a weight of 9.61 kilos (21.19 lbs)
- African civet with a weight of 12.09 kilos (26.65 lbs)
- Dwarf musk deer with a weight of 12.39 kilos (27.32 lbs)
- Siamang with a weight of 10.9 kilos (24.03 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Ground pangolin
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ground pangolin:
- Crested mona monkey with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Olive colobus with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Dusky leaf monkey with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a size of 57.9 cm (1′ 11″)
- Lesser grison with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- African savanna hare with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Geoffroy’s cat with a size of 57.6 cm (1′ 11″)
- Northern white-cheeked gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Stein’s cuscus with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Crested servaline genet with a size of 51.5 cm (1′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Ground pangolin
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Ground pangolin: