It is hard to guess what a White-lipped peccary weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) on average weights 31.6 kg (69.66 lbs).
The White-lipped peccary is from the family Tayassuidae (genus: Tayassu). It is usually born with about 1000 grams (2.2 lbs). They can live for up to 21 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 1.11 meter (3′ 8″). Usually, White-lipped peccarys have 2 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 white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari) is a peccary found in Central and South America. Most of its range is in rainforests, but it is also known from a wide range of other habitats such as dry forests, grasslands, mangrove, Cerrado, and dry xerophytic areas. It lives in herds of 20–300 individuals that typically take up about 120 km2 (46 sq mi) to fully function. Members of this species are omnivorous, feeding mostly on fruit, and are usually found traveling great distances to obtain it. If this resource is in demand and difficult to find, peccaries eat leaves, stems, or animal parts. White-lipped peccaries have several unique attributes that allow them to stay with and identify their herd, which is essential for their survival in the wild.
Animals of the same family as a White-lipped peccary
We found other animals of the Tayassuidae family:
- Chacoan peccary bringing 35.38 kilos (78 lbs) to the scale
- Collared peccary bringing 21.19 kilos (46.72 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a White-lipped peccary
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tayassu pecari:
- Long-tailed goral with a weight of 27 kilos (59.52 lbs)
- Red-fronted gazelle with a weight of 27 kilos (59.52 lbs)
- Pyrenean chamois with a weight of 30 kilos (66.14 lbs)
- Goitered gazelle with a weight of 26.84 kilos (59.17 lbs)
- Wolf with a weight of 33.38 kilos (73.59 lbs)
- Finless porpoise with a weight of 32.5 kilos (71.65 lbs)
- Przewalski’s gazelle with a weight of 27.5 kilos (60.63 lbs)
- Eastern grey kangaroo with a weight of 33.51 kilos (73.88 lbs)
- Chacoan peccary with a weight of 35.38 kilos (78 lbs)
- Antilopine kangaroo with a weight of 27.28 kilos (60.14 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-lipped peccary
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-lipped peccary:
- Aardvark with a size of 1.26 meter (4′ 2″)
- Queen of Sheba’s gazelle with a size of 99.9 cm (3′ 4″)
- Common duiker with a size of 96.1 cm (3′ 2″)
- Falkland Islands wolf with a size of 96 cm (3′ 2″)
- Mountain gazelle with a size of 1.01 meter (3′ 4″)
- Indian muntjac with a size of 99.5 cm (3′ 4″)
- Asian golden cat with a size of 89 cm (3′ 0″)
- Sheep with a size of 1.3 meter (4′ 4″)
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat with a size of 1 meter (3′ 4″)
- Striped hyena with a size of 1.11 meter (3′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a White-lipped peccary
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a White-lipped peccary:
- Tasmanian devil
- Bottego’s shrew
- Angoni vlei rat
- Moupin pika
- Least pygmy squirrel
- Desmarest’s hutia
- White-tailed mongoose
- Particolored flying squirrel
- Greater mole-rat
- Big-eared climbing rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a White-lipped peccary
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a White-lipped peccary:
- Bohor reedbuck with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Moustached guenon with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Gray-bellied night monkey with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Nabarlek with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Buru babirusa with an average maximal age of 24 years
- Sable antelope with an average maximal age of 22.25 years
- Geoffroy’s bat with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Japanese serow with an average maximal age of 18.5 years
- Masked palm civet with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Jaguar with an average maximal age of 23 years