It is hard to guess what a Ringed seal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ringed seal (Phoca hispida) on average weights 71.1 kg (156.75 lbs).
The Ringed seal is from the family Phocidae (genus: Phoca). It is usually born with about 4.5 kg (9.92 lbs). They can live for up to 46 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.29 meter (4′ 3″). Usually, Ringed 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 ringed seal (Pusa hispida or Phoca hispida), also known as the jar seal, as netsik or nattiq by the Inuit, is an earless seal inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The ringed seal is a relatively small seal, rarely greater than 1.5 m in length, with a distinctive patterning of dark spots surrounded by light grey rings, hence its common name. It is the most abundant and wide-ranging ice seal in the Northern Hemisphere: ranging throughout the Arctic Ocean, into the Bering Sea and Okhotsk Sea as far south as the northern coast of Japan in the Pacific, and throughout the North Atlantic coasts of Greenland and Scandinavia as far south as Newfoundland, and include two freshwater subspecies in northern Europe. Ringed seals are one of the primary prey of polar bears and killer whales, and have long been a component of the diet of indigenous people of the Arctic.
Animals of the same family as a Ringed seal
We found other animals of the Phocidae family:
- Ribbon seal bringing 90 kilos (198.42 lbs) to the scale
- Baikal seal bringing 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs) to the scale
- Southern elephant seal bringing 1600 kilos (3527.39 lbs) to the scale
- Baikal seal bringing 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs) to the scale
- Harp seal bringing 132.25 kilos (291.56 lbs) to the scale
- Ribbon seal bringing 90 kilos (198.42 lbs) to the scale
- Ross seal bringing 208.63 kilos (459.95 lbs) to the scale
- Harp seal bringing 132 kilos (291.01 lbs) to the scale
- Bearded seal bringing 280 kilos (617.29 lbs) to the scale
- Mediterranean monk seal bringing 294.94 kilos (650.23 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Ringed seal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phoca hispida:
- Hirola with a weight of 78.6 kilos (173.28 lbs)
- Mountain goat with a weight of 71.84 kilos (158.38 lbs)
- Bushpig with a weight of 68.91 kilos (151.92 lbs)
- Javan rusa with a weight of 65.8 kilos (145.06 lbs)
- Homo sapiens with a weight of 58.62 kilos (129.23 lbs)
- South American fur seal with a weight of 68.14 kilos (150.22 lbs)
- Common warthog with a weight of 82.5 kilos (181.88 lbs)
- Sitatunga with a weight of 75.28 kilos (165.96 lbs)
- Caspian seal with a weight of 62.3 kilos (137.35 lbs)
- South Andean deer with a weight of 69.02 kilos (152.16 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Ringed seal
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ringed seal:
- Philippine warty pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Brown bear with a size of 1.49 meter (4′ 11″)
- Mountain reedbuck with a size of 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)
- Sea otter with a size of 1.44 meter (4′ 9″)
- Puku with a size of 1.34 meter (4′ 5″)
- Giant panda with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Bharal with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Red river hog with a size of 1.37 meter (4′ 6″)
- Spotted hyena with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Sheep with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Ringed seal
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Ringed seal:
- Southern viscacha
- Three-striped night monkey
- Moustached guenon
- Black flying fox
- Black capuchin
- Barasingha
- Lowland paca
- Père David’s deer
- Sharpe’s grysbok
- Short-beaked echidna
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Ringed seal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Ringed seal:
- Indian rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 49 years
- Crabeater seal with an average maximal age of 39 years
- Onager with an average maximal age of 38.75 years
- Long-finned pilot whale with an average maximal age of 45 years
- Lion-tailed macaque with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Melon-headed whale with an average maximal age of 47 years
- Brown bear with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Hamadryas baboon with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Tufted capuchin with an average maximal age of 45.08 years
- Black capuchin with an average maximal age of 44 years