It is hard to guess what a Hector’s beaked whale weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hector’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon hectori) on average weights 1000 kg (2204.62 lbs).
The Hector’s beaked whale is from the family Ziphiidae (genus: Mesoplodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4.88 meter (16′ 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.
Hector’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon hectori), is a small mesoplodont living in the Southern Hemisphere. This whale is named after Sir James Hector, a founder of the colonial museum in Wellington, New Zealand. The species has rarely been seen in the wild.Some data supposedly referring to this species, especially juveniles and males, turned out to be based on the misidentified specimens of Perrin’s beaked whale – especially since the adult male of Hector’s beaked whale was only more recently described.
Animals of the same family as a Hector’s beaked whale
We found other animals of the Ziphiidae family:
- 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
- Southern bottlenose whale bringing 3000 kilos (6613.86 lbs) to the scale
- Hubbs’ beaked whale bringing 3400 kilos (7495.71 lbs) to the scale
- Gervais’ beaked whale bringing 5600 kilos (12345.87 lbs) to the scale
- Strap-toothed whale bringing 1500 kilos (3306.93 lbs) to the scale
- 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
- Pygmy beaked whale with a size of 3.72 meter (12′ 3″)
- Blainville’s beaked whale bringing 2300 kilos (5070.63 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Hector’s beaked whale
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mesoplodon hectori:
- Sumatran rhinoceros with a weight of 1038.08 kilos (2288.57 lbs)
- Northern elephant seal with a weight of 1116.2 kilos (2460.8 lbs)
- Long-finned pilot whale with a weight of 800 kilos (1763.7 lbs)
- Narwhal with a weight of 938.06 kilos (2068.07 lbs)
- Gayal with a weight of 800.07 kilos (1763.85 lbs)
- Black rhinoceros with a weight of 986.47 kilos (2174.79 lbs)
- Northern giraffe with a weight of 959.83 kilos (2116.06 lbs)
- Walrus with a weight of 1045.33 kilos (2304.56 lbs)
- Water buffalo with a weight of 924.25 kilos (2037.62 lbs)