It is hard to guess what a Spectacled bear weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) on average weights 123.09 kg (271.36 lbs).
The Spectacled bear is from the family Ursidae (genus: Tremarctos). It is usually born with about 320 grams (0.71 lbs). They can live for up to 36.42 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.77 meter (5′ 10″). Usually, Spectacled bears 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 spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), also known as the Andean bear, Andean short-faced bear, or mountain bear and locally as jukumari (Aymara and Quechua), ukumari (Quechua) or ukuku, is the last remaining short-faced bear (subfamily Tremarctinae). Its closest relatives are the extinct Florida spectacled bear, and the giant short-faced bears of the Middle to Late Pleistocene age (Arctodus and Arctotherium). Spectacled bears are the only surviving species of bear native to South America, and the only surviving member of the subfamily Tremarctinae. The species is classified as Vulnerable by the IUCN because of habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Spectacled bear
We found other animals of the Ursidae family:
- Sun bear bringing 57.04 kilos (125.75 lbs) to the scale
- Sloth bear bringing 99.45 kilos (219.25 lbs) to the scale
- Giant panda bringing 118 kilos (260.15 lbs) to the scale
- American black bear bringing 110.75 kilos (244.16 lbs) to the scale
- Brown bear bringing 196.14 kilos (432.41 lbs) to the scale
- Polar bear bringing 373.35 kilos (823.09 lbs) to the scale
- Asian black bear bringing 99.81 kilos (220.04 lbs) to the scale
- Red panda bringing 5.17 kilos (11.4 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Spectacled bear
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tremarctos ornatus:
- Siberian ibex with a weight of 130 kilos (286.6 lbs)
- Northern right whale dolphin with a weight of 113 kilos (249.12 lbs)
- Sumatran serow with a weight of 110.94 kilos (244.58 lbs)
- Peale’s dolphin with a weight of 120 kilos (264.55 lbs)
- Atlantic spotted dolphin with a weight of 110 kilos (242.51 lbs)
- Hourglass dolphin with a weight of 110 kilos (242.51 lbs)
- Giant panda with a weight of 118 kilos (260.15 lbs)
- Arctocephalus forsteri with a weight of 101.13 kilos (222.95 lbs)
- California sea lion with a weight of 137.6 kilos (303.36 lbs)
- Asian black bear with a weight of 99.81 kilos (220.04 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Spectacled bear
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Spectacled bear:
- Dama gazelle with a size of 1.46 meter (4′ 10″)
- Javan rusa with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Dall sheep with a size of 1.42 meter (4′ 8″)
- Sable antelope with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- Western gorilla with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Harbour porpoise with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Baiji with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 8″)
- Guadalupe fur seal with a size of 1.71 meter (5′ 8″)
- Brown fur seal with a size of 1.91 meter (6′ 3″)
- Kob with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Spectacled bear
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Spectacled bear:
- Common bottlenose dolphin
- Rufous soft-furred spiny rat
- Sykes’ monkey
- Pampas deer
- Polar bear
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Southeastern pocket gopher
- Narrow-striped mongoose
- Horse
- Gelada
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Spectacled bear
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Spectacled bear:
- Javan rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 40 years
- American bison with an average maximal age of 33 years
- Giant panda with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Western long-beaked echidna with an average maximal age of 31 years
- African buffalo with an average maximal age of 29.5 years
- Onager with an average maximal age of 38.75 years
- Black lemur with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Southern pig-tailed macaque with an average maximal age of 34.25 years
- Crabeater seal with an average maximal age of 39 years
- Siamang with an average maximal age of 38 years