It is hard to guess what a White rhinoceros weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) on average weights 2272.97 kg (5011.04 lbs).
The White rhinoceros is from the family Rhinocerotidae (genus: Ceratotherium). It is usually born with about 48.5 kg (106.92 lbs). They can live for up to 50 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.59 meter (8′ 6″). Usually, White rhinoceross 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 white rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is the largest extant species of rhinoceros. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhinoceros consists of two subspecies: the southern white rhinoceros, with an estimated 19,682–21,077 wild-living animals in the year 2015, and the much rarer northern white rhinoceros. The northern subspecies has very few remaining individuals, with only two confirmed left in 2018 (two females; Fatu, 18 and Najin, 29), both in captivity. Sudan, the world’s last known male northern white rhinoceros, died in Kenya on 19 March 2018.
Animals of the same family as a White rhinoceros
We found other animals of the Rhinocerotidae family:
- Black rhinoceros bringing 986.47 kilos (2174.79 lbs) to the scale
- Javan rhinoceros bringing 1740 kilos (3836.04 lbs) to the scale
- Sumatran rhinoceros bringing 1038.08 kilos (2288.57 lbs) to the scale
- Indian rhinoceros bringing 1839.1 kilos (4054.52 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a White rhinoceros
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ceratotherium simum:
- Blainville’s beaked whale with a weight of 2300 kilos (5070.63 lbs)
- Indian rhinoceros with a weight of 1839.1 kilos (4054.52 lbs)
- Tropical bottlenose whale with a weight of 2200 kilos (4850.16 lbs)
- Shepherd’s beaked whale with a weight of 2500 kilos (5511.55 lbs)
- Andrews’ beaked whale with a weight of 2600 kilos (5732.01 lbs)
- True’s beaked whale with a weight of 2100 kilos (4629.7 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White rhinoceros
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White rhinoceros:
- Irrawaddy dolphin with a size of 2.5 meter (8′ 3″)
- Atlantic white-sided dolphin with a size of 2.29 meter (7′ 6″)
- Mediterranean monk seal with a size of 2.6 meter (8′ 7″)
- Amazon river dolphin with a size of 2.12 meter (7′ 0″)
- Malayan tapir with a size of 2.22 meter (7′ 4″)
- Common eland with a size of 2.66 meter (8′ 9″)
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with a size of 2.21 meter (7′ 3″)
- Sumatran rhinoceros with a size of 2.77 meter (9′ 2″)
- American bison with a size of 2.85 meter (9′ 5″)
- Moose with a size of 2.1 meter (6′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a White rhinoceros
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a White rhinoceros:
- Pale-throated sloth
- Thomas’s rope squirrel
- Caribbean monk seal
- Brown fur seal
- Günther’s dik-dik
- Taiwan vole
- Four-striped ground squirrel
- Argentine brown bat
- Long-footed potoroo
- Rahm’s brush-furred rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a White rhinoceros
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a White rhinoceros:
- Pantropical spotted dolphin with an average maximal age of 46 years
- Javan rhinoceros with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Guinea baboon with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Hippopotamus with an average maximal age of 54.5 years
- Dromedary with an average maximal age of 40 years
- Short-beaked echidna with an average maximal age of 50 years
- Black capuchin with an average maximal age of 44 years
- Chacma baboon with an average maximal age of 45 years
- Wedge-capped capuchin with an average maximal age of 41 years
- Spotted hyena with an average maximal age of 41.08 years