It is hard to guess what a Striped dolphin weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) on average weights 142.05 kg (313.17 lbs).
The Striped dolphin is from the family Delphinidae (genus: Stenella). It is usually born with about 11.3 kg (24.91 lbs). They can live for up to 50 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.3 meter (7′ 7″). Usually, Striped dolphins 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 striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) is an extensively studied dolphin found in temperate and tropical waters of all the world’s oceans. It is a member of the oceanic dolphin family, Delphinidae.
Animals of the same family as a Striped dolphin
We found other animals of the Delphinidae family:
- Northern right whale dolphin bringing 113 kilos (249.12 lbs) to the scale
- Southern right whale dolphin bringing 116 kilos (255.74 lbs) to the scale
- Chilean dolphin bringing 45 kilos (99.21 lbs) to the scale
- Short-finned pilot whale bringing 726 kilos (1600.55 lbs) to the scale
- Pygmy killer whale bringing 170 kilos (374.79 lbs) to the scale
- Dusky dolphin bringing 127.25 kilos (280.54 lbs) to the scale
- Rough-toothed dolphin bringing 130 kilos (286.6 lbs) to the scale
- Hector’s dolphin bringing 50 kilos (110.23 lbs) to the scale
- Irrawaddy dolphin bringing 190 kilos (418.88 lbs) to the scale
- Pantropical spotted dolphin bringing 65.72 kilos (144.89 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Striped dolphin
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Stenella coeruleoalba:
- Spectacled bear with a weight of 123.09 kilos (271.37 lbs)
- Harp seal with a weight of 132.25 kilos (291.56 lbs)
- Eastern gorilla with a weight of 149.33 kilos (329.22 lbs)
- Pygmy killer whale with a weight of 170 kilos (374.79 lbs)
- Tiger with a weight of 162.28 kilos (357.77 lbs)
- Black wildebeest with a weight of 156.55 kilos (345.13 lbs)
- Mountain tapir with a weight of 155.46 kilos (342.73 lbs)
- Harp seal with a weight of 132 kilos (291.01 lbs)
- South American tapir with a weight of 167.75 kilos (369.83 lbs)
- Thorold’s deer with a weight of 161.68 kilos (356.44 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Striped dolphin
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Striped dolphin:
- Crabeater seal with a size of 2.27 meter (7′ 6″)
- Sable antelope with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- Spinner dolphin with a size of 2.13 meter (7′ 0″)
- Reindeer with a size of 2.23 meter (7′ 4″)
- Moose with a size of 2.1 meter (6′ 11″)
- Scimitar oryx with a size of 1.91 meter (6′ 4″)
- Sambar deer with a size of 2.04 meter (6′ 9″)
- Brown fur seal with a size of 1.91 meter (6′ 3″)
- South American sea lion with a size of 2.12 meter (7′ 0″)
- Mountain zebra with a size of 2.35 meter (7′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Striped dolphin
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Striped dolphin:
- Pygmy killer whale
- Banana pipistrelle
- Oribi
- Chinese pangolin
- Bactrian camel
- Reeves’s muntjac
- Northern common cuscus
- Dwarf brocket
- Sun-tailed monkey
- Barbary sheep
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Striped dolphin
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Striped dolphin:
- Chimpanzee with an average maximal age of 60 years
- Bactrian camel with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Western gorilla with an average maximal age of 54 years
- Humboldt’s white-fronted capuchin with an average maximal age of 44 years
- Yellow baboon with an average maximal age of 45 years
- Ringed seal with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Black capuchin with an average maximal age of 44 years
- Common minke whale with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Narwhal with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Grey seal with an average maximal age of 46.67 years