It is hard to guess what a Pygmy hog weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pygmy hog (Sus salvanius) on average weights 7.92 kg (17.45 lbs).
The Pygmy hog is from the family Suidae (genus: Sus). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 59.9 cm (2′ 0″). Usually, Pygmy hogs have 3 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 pygmy hog (Porcula salvania) is a suid native to alluvial grasslands in the foothills of the Himalayas at elevations of up to 300 m (980 ft). Today, the only known population lives in southern Bhutan and in Assam, India. As the population is estimated at less than 250 mature individuals, it is listed as Endangered on the IUCN Red List.
Animals of the same family as a Pygmy hog
We found other animals of the Suidae family:
- Wild boar bringing 84.49 kilos (186.27 lbs) to the scale
- Red river hog bringing 70 kilos (154.32 lbs) to the scale
- Celebes warty pig bringing 53.46 kilos (117.86 lbs) to the scale
- Bushpig bringing 68.91 kilos (151.92 lbs) to the scale
- Javan warty pig bringing 89.2 kilos (196.65 lbs) to the scale
- Philippine warty pig bringing 189.4 kilos (417.56 lbs) to the scale
- Bornean bearded pig bringing 135.4 kilos (298.51 lbs) to the scale
- Visayan warty pig bringing 189.4 kilos (417.56 lbs) to the scale
- Desert warthog bringing 75.61 kilos (166.69 lbs) to the scale
- Giant forest hog bringing 196.57 kilos (433.36 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Pygmy hog
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sus salvanius:
- Coypu with a weight of 6.36 kilos (14.02 lbs)
- Eurasian otter with a weight of 8.86 kilos (19.53 lbs)
- Pig-tailed langur with a weight of 7.39 kilos (16.29 lbs)
- Purple-faced langur with a weight of 7.53 kilos (16.6 lbs)
- Venezuelan red howler with a weight of 6.41 kilos (14.13 lbs)
- Red-faced spider monkey with a weight of 8.7 kilos (19.18 lbs)
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo with a weight of 8.98 kilos (19.8 lbs)
- Celebes crested macaque with a weight of 7.37 kilos (16.25 lbs)
- Fossa (animal) with a weight of 9.5 kilos (20.94 lbs)
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with a weight of 6.94 kilos (15.3 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Pygmy hog
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Pygmy hog:
- Purple-faced langur with a size of 58.5 cm (2′ 0″)
- Eastern falanouc with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Brown dorcopsis with a size of 67.9 cm (2′ 3″)
- Brown palm civet with a size of 58.9 cm (2′ 0″)
- Red-handed howler with a size of 55.1 cm (1′ 10″)
- Thollon’s red colobus with a size of 57 cm (1′ 11″)
- Aders’s duiker with a size of 69 cm (2′ 4″)
- Black crested gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Southern muriqui with a size of 57.8 cm (1′ 11″)
- Common genet with a size of 55.4 cm (1′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Pygmy hog
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Pygmy hog:
- Hairy-footed gerbil
- Holochilus brasiliensis
- Great jerboa
- Brandt’s hedgehog
- Atlantic Forest climbing mouse
- Woodland dormouse
- Greater Egyptian gerbil
- Water deer
- Blanford’s jerboa
- Sado mole
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Pygmy hog
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Pygmy hog:
- Chinese ferret-badger with an average maximal age of 10.5 years
- Hispaniolan solenodon with an average maximal age of 11.33 years
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Central American agouti with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Pampas fox with an average maximal age of 13.67 years
- Zebra duiker with an average maximal age of 12.17 years
- Brush-tailed rock-wallaby with an average maximal age of 14.33 years
- Blanford’s fox with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Groundhog with an average maximal age of 10 years