It is hard to guess what a Sowerby’s beaked whale weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sowerby’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens) on average weights 3400 kg (7495.71 lbs).
The Sowerby’s beaked whale is from the family Ziphiidae (genus: Mesoplodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.03 meter (16′ 7″). Usually, Sowerby’s beaked whales 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.
Sowerby’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens), also known as the North Atlantic or North Sea beaked whale, is a species of toothed whale. It was the first mesoplodont whale to be described. James Sowerby, an English naturalist and artist, first described the species in 1804 from a skull obtained from a male that had stranded in the Moray Firth, Scotland, in 1800. He named it bidens, which derives from the two teeth present in the jaw, now known to be a very common feature among the genus.
Animals of the same family as a Sowerby’s beaked whale
We found other animals of the Ziphiidae family:
- Berardius bringing 11390 kilos (25110.62 lbs) to the scale
- Stejneger’s beaked whale bringing 4800 kilos (10582.18 lbs) to the scale
- Blainville’s beaked whale bringing 2300 kilos (5070.63 lbs) to the scale
- Hector’s beaked whale bringing 1000 kilos (2204.62 lbs) to the scale
- Cuvier’s beaked whale bringing 4772.5 kilos (10521.55 lbs) to the scale
- Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale bringing 1500 kilos (3306.93 lbs) to the scale
- Strap-toothed whale bringing 1500 kilos (3306.93 lbs) to the scale
- Gervais’ beaked whale bringing 5600 kilos (12345.87 lbs) to the scale
- Hubbs’ beaked whale bringing 3400 kilos (7495.71 lbs) to the scale
- Andrews’ beaked whale bringing 2600 kilos (5732.01 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Sowerby’s beaked whale
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mesoplodon bidens:
- African bush elephant with a weight of 3882.27 kilos (8558.93 lbs)
- Asian elephant with a weight of 3294.9 kilos (7264 lbs)
- Hubbs’ beaked whale with a weight of 3400 kilos (7495.71 lbs)
- Gray’s beaked whale with a weight of 2900 kilos (6393.4 lbs)
- Steller’s sea cow with a weight of 4000 kilos (8818.48 lbs)
- Southern bottlenose whale with a weight of 3000 kilos (6613.86 lbs)
- Northern bottlenose whale with a weight of 3391.68 kilos (7477.37 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Sowerby’s beaked whale
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sowerby’s beaked whale:
- Andrews’ beaked whale with a size of 4.26 meter (14′ 0″)
- Blainville’s beaked whale with a size of 4.59 meter (15′ 1″)
- Long-finned pilot whale with a size of 5.69 meter (18′ 9″)
- Narwhal with a size of 5.1 meter (16′ 9″)
- Northern giraffe with a size of 4.18 meter (13′ 9″)
- True’s beaked whale with a size of 5.18 meter (17′ 0″)
- Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale with a size of 4.88 meter (16′ 1″)
- Common minke whale with a size of 5.53 meter (18′ 2″)
- Beluga whale with a size of 4.25 meter (14′ 0″)
- Hubbs’ beaked whale with a size of 5.4 meter (17′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sowerby’s beaked whale
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Sowerby’s beaked whale: