It is hard to guess what a Northern giraffe weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) on average weights 959.83 kg (2116.05 lbs).
The Northern giraffe is from the family Giraffidae (genus: Giraffa). It is usually born with about 55.22 kg (121.74 lbs). They can live for up to 36.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4.18 meter (13′ 9″). On average, Northern giraffes 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.
See Giraffe for details of how this proposed taxonomy fits with the currently accepted taxonomy of giraffes.The northern giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis), also known as three-horned giraffe, is the type species of giraffe native to North Africa.In the current IUCN taxonomic scheme, there is only one species of giraffe with the name G. camelopardalis and nine subspecies, but alternative taxonomic hypotheses have proposed two to eleven species.Once abundant throughout Africa since the 19th century, it ranged from Senegal, Mali and Nigeria from West Africa to up north in Egypt. The West African giraffes once lived in Algeria and Morocco in ancient periods until their extinctions due to the Saharan dry climate. It is isolated in South Sudan, Kenya, Chad and Niger.All giraffes are considered Vulnerable to extinction by the IUCN. In 2016, around 97,000 individuals from all subspecies were present in the wild. There are currently 5,195 northern giraffes.
Animals of the same family as a Northern giraffe
We found other animals of the Giraffidae family:
- Okapi bringing 230 kilos (507.06 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Northern giraffe
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Giraffa camelopardalis:
- Narwhal with a weight of 938.06 kilos (2068.07 lbs)
- Long-finned pilot whale with a weight of 800 kilos (1763.7 lbs)
- Kouprey with a weight of 788.66 kilos (1738.7 lbs)
- Hector’s beaked whale with a weight of 1000 kilos (2204.62 lbs)
- Gayal with a weight of 800.07 kilos (1763.85 lbs)
- Sumatran rhinoceros with a weight of 1038.08 kilos (2288.57 lbs)
- Walrus with a weight of 1045.33 kilos (2304.56 lbs)
- Black rhinoceros with a weight of 986.47 kilos (2174.79 lbs)
- Water buffalo with a weight of 924.25 kilos (2037.62 lbs)
- Northern elephant seal with a weight of 1116.2 kilos (2460.8 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Northern giraffe
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern giraffe:
- Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale with a size of 4.88 meter (16′ 1″)
- Blainville’s beaked whale with a size of 4.59 meter (15′ 1″)
- Beluga whale with a size of 4.25 meter (14′ 0″)
- Indian rhinoceros with a size of 3.74 meter (12′ 4″)
- West Indian manatee with a size of 3.5 meter (11′ 6″)
- Andrews’ beaked whale with a size of 4.26 meter (14′ 0″)
- Southern elephant seal with a size of 3.69 meter (12′ 2″)
- Northern elephant seal with a size of 3.72 meter (12′ 3″)
- Pygmy beaked whale with a size of 3.72 meter (12′ 3″)
- African manatee with a size of 3.5 meter (11′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern giraffe
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Northern giraffe:
- Silver fruit-eating bat
- Crowned lemur
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Dryas monkey
- Attwater’s pocket gopher
- Kloss’s gibbon
- Gemsbok
- Cuban solenodon
- Heart-nosed bat
- Olive colobus
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Northern giraffe
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Northern giraffe:
- Guinea baboon with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Walrus with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Common genet with an average maximal age of 34 years
- American bison with an average maximal age of 33 years
- Western long-beaked echidna with an average maximal age of 31 years
- Harbor seal with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Silvery lutung with an average maximal age of 31.08 years
- South American tapir with an average maximal age of 35 years
- Rodrigues flying fox with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Sea otter with an average maximal age of 30 years