It is hard to guess what a Hooded seal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) on average weights 278.95 kg (614.97 lbs).
The Hooded seal is from the family Phocidae (genus: Cystophora). It is usually born with about 22 kg (48.49 lbs). They can live for up to 35 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.33 meter (7′ 8″). Usually, Hooded 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 hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) is a large phocid found only in the central and western North Atlantic, ranging from Svalbard in the east to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the west. The seals are typically silver-grey or white in Color, with black spots that vary in size covering most of the body. Hooded seal pups are known as “blue-backs” because their coats are blue-grey on the back with whitish bellies, though this coat is shed after 14 months of age when the pups molt.
Animals of the same family as a Hooded seal
We found other animals of the Phocidae family:
- Caspian seal bringing 62.33 kilos (137.41 lbs) to the scale
- Harp seal bringing 132 kilos (291.01 lbs) to the scale
- Southern elephant seal bringing 1600 kilos (3527.39 lbs) to the scale
- Ringed seal bringing 71.1 kilos (156.75 lbs) to the scale
- Grey seal bringing 197.29 kilos (434.95 lbs) to the scale
- Caspian seal bringing 62.3 kilos (137.35 lbs) to the scale
- Bearded seal bringing 280 kilos (617.29 lbs) to the scale
- Baikal seal bringing 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs) to the scale
- Leopard seal bringing 352.84 kilos (777.88 lbs) to the scale
- Harbor seal bringing 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Hooded seal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Cystophora cristata:
- Burchell’s zebra with a weight of 278.08 kilos (613.06 lbs)
- Muskox with a weight of 312.67 kilos (689.32 lbs)
- Red deer with a weight of 240.43 kilos (530.06 lbs)
- Bongo (antelope) with a weight of 269.5 kilos (594.15 lbs)
- Pygmy hippopotamus with a weight of 231 kilos (509.27 lbs)
- Common bottlenose dolphin with a weight of 281.02 kilos (619.54 lbs)
- Crabeater seal with a weight of 225 kilos (496.04 lbs)
- Bearded seal with a weight of 280 kilos (617.29 lbs)
- New Zealand sea lion with a weight of 273.67 kilos (603.34 lbs)
- Sable antelope with a weight of 235.2 kilos (518.53 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Hooded seal
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hooded seal:
- Moose with a size of 2.1 meter (6′ 11″)
- Spinner dolphin with a size of 2.13 meter (7′ 0″)
- Grey seal with a size of 2.08 meter (6′ 10″)
- Ross seal with a size of 2.07 meter (6′ 10″)
- Bongo (antelope) with a size of 2.27 meter (7′ 6″)
- Sambar deer with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- Striped dolphin with a size of 2.3 meter (7′ 7″)
- New Zealand sea lion with a size of 2.02 meter (6′ 8″)
- Polar bear with a size of 2 meter (6′ 7″)
- Mediterranean monk seal with a size of 2.6 meter (8′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hooded seal
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Hooded seal:
- Raffray’s bandicoot
- Formosan rock macaque
- Dugong
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Western woolly lemur
- Southeast Asian shrew
- Speke’s gazelle
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
- Short-eared rock-wallaby
- Lesser tree mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Hooded seal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Hooded seal:
- Common genet with an average maximal age of 34 years
- Angolan talapoin with an average maximal age of 30.83 years
- South Asian river dolphin with an average maximal age of 28 years
- Crested servaline genet with an average maximal age of 34 years
- Cuvier’s beaked whale with an average maximal age of 36 years
- Silvery lutung with an average maximal age of 31.08 years
- Guanaco with an average maximal age of 28.25 years
- Wedge-capped capuchin with an average maximal age of 41 years
- Wolf with an average maximal age of 29.5 years
- Greater horseshoe bat with an average maximal age of 30 years