It is hard to guess what a Vaquita weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Vaquita (Phocoena sinus) on average weights 43.11 kg (95.05 lbs).
The Vaquita is from the family Phocoenidae (genus: Phocoena). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.52 meter (5′ 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 vaquita (Phocoena sinus) is a species of porpoise endemic to the Gulf of California. Averaging 150 cm (for females) or 140 cm (for males) in length, it is the smallest of all living cetaceans. Today, the species is on the brink of extinction. Recent research estimates the population at fewer than 19 individuals. The steep decline in abundance is primarily due to bycatch in gillnets from the illegal totoaba fishery.
Animals of the same family as a Vaquita
We found other animals of the Phocoenidae family:
- Finless porpoise bringing 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs) to the scale
- Dall’s porpoise bringing 106.03 kilos (233.76 lbs) to the scale
- Spectacled porpoise bringing 65 kilos (143.3 lbs) to the scale
- Harbour porpoise bringing 52.72 kilos (116.23 lbs) to the scale
- Australophocaena dioptrica bringing 65 kilos (143.3 lbs) to the scale
- Burmeister’s porpoise bringing 60 kilos (132.28 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Vaquita
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phocoena sinus:
- Heaviside’s dolphin with a weight of 40 kilos (88.18 lbs)
- Nubian ibex with a weight of 47.68 kilos (105.12 lbs)
- Red kangaroo with a weight of 38.98 kilos (85.94 lbs)
- Striped hyena with a weight of 35.09 kilos (77.36 lbs)
- Indian hog deer with a weight of 37.27 kilos (82.17 lbs)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a weight of 48.5 kilos (106.92 lbs)
- Philippine deer with a weight of 49.1 kilos (108.25 lbs)
- Cheetah with a weight of 50.54 kilos (111.42 lbs)
- Capybara with a weight of 47.5 kilos (104.72 lbs)
- Siberian roe deer with a weight of 41.19 kilos (90.81 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Vaquita
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Vaquita:
- Mountain reedbuck with a size of 1.23 meter (4′ 1″)
- White-tailed deer with a size of 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Northern fur seal with a size of 1.74 meter (5′ 9″)
- Gerenuk with a size of 1.5 meter (5′ 0″)
- Sea otter with a size of 1.44 meter (4′ 9″)
- Bawean deer with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Baiji with a size of 1.7 meter (5′ 8″)
- Vicuña with a size of 1.58 meter (5′ 3″)
- Alpaca with a size of 1.72 meter (5′ 8″)
- Guanaco with a size of 1.47 meter (4′ 11″)