It is hard to guess what a Spinner dolphin weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) on average weights 50.5 kg (111.33 lbs).
The Spinner dolphin is from the family Delphinidae (genus: Stenella). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.13 meter (7′ 0″).
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 spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) is a small dolphin found in off-shore tropical waters around the world. It is famous for its acrobatic displays in which it spins along its longitudinal axis as it leaps through the air. It is a member of the family Delphinidae of toothed whales.
Animals of the same family as a Spinner dolphin
We found other animals of the Delphinidae family:
- Short-beaked common dolphin bringing 79.29 kilos (174.8 lbs) to the scale
- Irrawaddy dolphin bringing 190 kilos (418.88 lbs) to the scale
- Fraser’s dolphin bringing 164 kilos (361.56 lbs) to the scale
- Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin bringing 280 kilos (617.29 lbs) to the scale
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin bringing 186.76 kilos (411.73 lbs) to the scale
- False killer whale bringing 1360 kilos (2998.28 lbs) to the scale
- Short-finned pilot whale bringing 726 kilos (1600.55 lbs) to the scale
- Killer whale bringing 5629.17 kilos (12410.18 lbs) to the scale
- Peale’s dolphin bringing 120 kilos (264.55 lbs) to the scale
- Northern right whale dolphin bringing 113 kilos (249.12 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Spinner dolphin
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Stenella longirostris:
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a weight of 41 kilos (90.39 lbs)
- Burmeister’s porpoise with a weight of 60 kilos (132.28 lbs)
- Goat with a weight of 47.14 kilos (103.93 lbs)
- Nubian ibex with a weight of 47.68 kilos (105.12 lbs)
- Harbour porpoise with a weight of 52.72 kilos (116.23 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a weight of 41.58 kilos (91.67 lbs)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a weight of 48.5 kilos (106.92 lbs)
- Capybara with a weight of 47.5 kilos (104.72 lbs)
- Fallow deer with a weight of 56.71 kilos (125.02 lbs)
- Japanese serow with a weight of 43.03 kilos (94.86 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Spinner dolphin
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Spinner dolphin:
- Tiger with a size of 1.83 meter (6′ 0″)
- Nyala with a size of 1.94 meter (6′ 5″)
- New Zealand sea lion with a size of 2.02 meter (6′ 8″)
- Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin with a size of 2.37 meter (7′ 10″)
- Mountain nyala with a size of 2.25 meter (7′ 5″)
- Hartebeest with a size of 1.98 meter (6′ 6″)
- Dwarf sperm whale with a size of 2.16 meter (7′ 2″)
- Sambar deer with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- Weddell seal with a size of 2.55 meter (8′ 5″)
- Sambar deer with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)