It is hard to guess what a Maned sloth weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Maned sloth (Bradypus torquatus) on average weights 4.47 kg (9.86 lbs).
The Maned sloth is from the family Bradypodidae (genus: Bradypus). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 54.9 cm (1′ 10″). Usually, Maned sloths 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 maned sloth (Bradypus torquatus), also known as the ai (), is a three-toed sloth that lives only in Brazil. It is one of four species of three-toed sloth.
Animals of the same family as a Maned sloth
We found other animals of the Bradypodidae family:
- Pale-throated sloth bringing 4.33 kilos (9.55 lbs) to the scale
- Brown-throated sloth bringing 4 kilos (8.82 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Maned sloth
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bradypus torquatus:
- Plains viscacha with a weight of 4.66 kilos (10.27 lbs)
- Blue duiker with a weight of 4.86 kilos (10.71 lbs)
- Sechuran fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
- Toque macaque with a weight of 4.66 kilos (10.27 lbs)
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo with a weight of 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs)
- Bicolored-spined porcupine with a weight of 4.49 kilos (9.9 lbs)
- Alpine marmot with a weight of 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs)
- Gray fox with a weight of 3.83 kilos (8.44 lbs)
- Greater spot-nosed monkey with a weight of 5.26 kilos (11.6 lbs)
- Northern tamandua with a weight of 4.11 kilos (9.06 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Maned sloth
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Maned sloth:
- Arctic fox with a size of 56.4 cm (1′ 11″)
- Delacour’s langur with a size of 57.7 cm (1′ 11″)
- Maroon leaf monkey with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Ethiopian highland hare with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Ursine tree-kangaroo with a size of 62.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- François’ langur with a size of 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Brown howler with a size of 51.4 cm (1′ 9″)
- Arabian gazelle with a size of 50 cm (1′ 8″)
- Flat-headed cat with a size of 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- White-tailed mongoose with a size of 57.3 cm (1′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Maned sloth
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Maned sloth:
- Red bush squirrel
- Pygmy hippopotamus
- Sooty mustached bat
- South Asian river dolphin
- Agile wallaby
- Western woolly lemur
- Pig-tailed langur
- Sheep
- Grey-headed flying fox
- Asian small-clawed otter
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Maned sloth
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Maned sloth:
- Markhor with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Chinese ferret-badger with an average maximal age of 10.5 years
- Desmarest’s hutia with an average maximal age of 11.33 years
- Sharpe’s grysbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Northern treeshrew with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Salt’s dik-dik with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Tammar wallaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Spectral tarsier with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Fisher (animal) with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 10 years