It is hard to guess what a Guadalupe fur seal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi) on average weights 101.03 kg (222.74 lbs).
The Guadalupe fur seal is from the family Otariidae (genus: Arctocephalus). They can live for up to 24 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.71 meter (5′ 8″). Usually, Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe fur seal (Arctocephalus townsendi) is one of six members of the fur seal genus Arctocephalus. Sealers reduced the population to just a few dozen by the late 19th century, but the species had recovered to 10,000 in number by the late 1990s. Many individuals can be found on Mexico’s Guadalupe Island.
Animals of the same family as a Guadalupe fur seal
We found other animals of the Otariidae family:
- Subantarctic fur seal bringing 92.21 kilos (203.29 lbs) to the scale
- Galápagos fur seal bringing 39.47 kilos (87.02 lbs) to the scale
- New Zealand sea lion bringing 273.67 kilos (603.34 lbs) to the scale
- Steller sea lion bringing 383.23 kilos (844.88 lbs) to the scale
- South American sea lion bringing 193.67 kilos (426.97 lbs) to the scale
- Arctocephalus forsteri bringing 101.13 kilos (222.95 lbs) to the scale
- Australian sea lion bringing 189.14 kilos (416.98 lbs) to the scale
- Brown fur seal bringing 178.75 kilos (394.08 lbs) to the scale
- California sea lion bringing 137.6 kilos (303.36 lbs) to the scale
- South American sea lion bringing 194 kilos (427.7 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Guadalupe fur seal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Arctocephalus townsendi:
- Northern right whale dolphin with a weight of 113 kilos (249.12 lbs)
- Barbary sheep with a weight of 93.7 kilos (206.57 lbs)
- Llama with a weight of 107.66 kilos (237.35 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 93.49 kilos (206.11 lbs)
- Baikal seal with a weight of 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs)
- Javan warty pig with a weight of 89.2 kilos (196.65 lbs)
- Saola with a weight of 97.84 kilos (215.7 lbs)
- Common warthog with a weight of 82.5 kilos (181.88 lbs)
- Sumatran serow with a weight of 110.94 kilos (244.58 lbs)
- Addax with a weight of 95.39 kilos (210.3 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Guadalupe fur seal
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Guadalupe fur seal:
- Spotted seal with a size of 1.64 meter (5′ 5″)
- Giant forest hog with a size of 2.03 meter (6′ 8″)
- Brown fur seal with a size of 1.91 meter (6′ 3″)
- Tiger with a size of 1.83 meter (6′ 0″)
- Polar bear with a size of 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Barasingha with a size of 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Black wildebeest with a size of 1.82 meter (6′ 0″)
- Markhor with a size of 1.59 meter (5′ 3″)
- Calamian deer with a size of 1.39 meter (4′ 7″)
- Sambar deer with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Guadalupe fur seal
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Guadalupe fur seal:
- Waterbuck
- Sooty mangabey
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest
- Hispaniolan solenodon
- Common brushtail possum
- Northern brushtail possum
- Eastern woolly lemur
- Madagascan large free-tailed bat
- Caribbean monk seal
- Bonnet macaque
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Guadalupe fur seal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Guadalupe fur seal:
- Muskox with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Indian hog deer with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Daubenton’s bat with an average maximal age of 28 years
- Kit fox with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Bharal with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Waterbuck with an average maximal age of 19.92 years
- Arabian oryx with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Sunda slow loris with an average maximal age of 26.5 years
- Leopard seal with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Proboscis monkey with an average maximal age of 21 years