It is hard to guess what a Spotted seal weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Spotted seal (Phoca largha) on average weights 99.02 kg (218.3 lbs).
The Spotted seal is from the family Phocidae (genus: Phoca). It is usually born with about 7.1 kg (15.65 lbs). They can live for up to 35.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.64 meter (5′ 5″). Usually, Spotted 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 spotted seal (Phoca largha), also known as the larga seal or largha seal, is a member of the family Phocidae, and is considered a “true seal”. It inhabits ice floes and waters of the north Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas. It is primarily found along the continental shelf of the Beaufort, Chukchi, Bering and Okhotsk Seas and south to the northern Yellow Sea and it migrates south as far as northern Huanghai and the western Sea of Japan. It is also found in Alaska from the southeastern Bristol Bay to Demarcation Point during the ice-free seasons of summer and autumn when spotted seals mate and have pups. Smaller numbers are found in the Beaufort Sea. It is sometimes mistaken for the harbor seal to which it is closely related and spotted seals and harbor seals often mingle together in areas where their habitats overlap.The reduction in arctic ice floes due to global warming led to concerns that the spotted seal was threatened with extinction. Studies were conducted on its population numbers, with the conclusion, as of October 15, 2009, that the spotted seal population in Alaskan waters is not currently to be listed as endangered by NOAA.
Animals of the same family as a Spotted seal
We found other animals of the Phocidae family:
- Harp seal bringing 132.25 kilos (291.56 lbs) to the scale
- Baikal seal bringing 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs) to the scale
- Ribbon seal bringing 90 kilos (198.42 lbs) to the scale
- Bearded seal bringing 280 kilos (617.29 lbs) to the scale
- Harp seal bringing 132 kilos (291.01 lbs) to the scale
- Caribbean monk seal bringing 198.38 kilos (437.35 lbs) to the scale
- Baikal seal bringing 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs) to the scale
- Northern elephant seal bringing 1116.2 kilos (2460.8 lbs) to the scale
- Hawaiian monk seal bringing 223 kilos (491.63 lbs) to the scale
- Mediterranean monk seal bringing 294.94 kilos (650.23 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Spotted seal
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phoca largha:
- Short-beaked common dolphin with a weight of 79.29 kilos (174.8 lbs)
- Ribbon seal with a weight of 90 kilos (198.42 lbs)
- South Asian river dolphin with a weight of 93.49 kilos (206.11 lbs)
- Eld’s deer with a weight of 95.47 kilos (210.48 lbs)
- Guadalupe fur seal with a weight of 101.03 kilos (222.73 lbs)
- Wild boar with a weight of 84.49 kilos (186.27 lbs)
- Harbor seal with a weight of 87.31 kilos (192.49 lbs)
- Argali with a weight of 113.67 kilos (250.6 lbs)
- Hourglass dolphin with a weight of 110 kilos (242.51 lbs)
- Buru babirusa with a weight of 92.33 kilos (203.55 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Spotted seal
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Spotted seal:
- Pronghorn with a size of 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)
- Javan rusa with a size of 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Hirola with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Ribbon seal with a size of 1.54 meter (5′ 1″)
- Caspian seal with a size of 1.41 meter (4′ 8″)
- Harp seal with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Bornean bearded pig with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Siberian roe deer with a size of 1.32 meter (4′ 4″)
- Anoa with a size of 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Western gorilla with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Spotted seal
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Spotted seal:
- Hoolock gibbon
- Masoala fork-marked lemur
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Addax
- Japanese macaque
- Dusky leaf-nosed bat
- Mahogany glider
- Dwarf free-tailed bat
- Cape serotine
- Climbing shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Spotted seal
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Spotted seal:
- Sea otter with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Kinkajou with an average maximal age of 29 years
- Crab-eating macaque with an average maximal age of 38 years
- Burchell’s zebra with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Common brown lemur with an average maximal age of 37 years
- Siamang with an average maximal age of 38 years
- Northern bottlenose whale with an average maximal age of 37 years
- Dromedary with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur with an average maximal age of 32 years
- Spotted hyena with an average maximal age of 41.08 years