What is the maximal age a Antarctic fur seal reaches?
An adult Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) usually gets as old as 23 years.
Antarctic fur seals are around 295 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 5.8 kg (12.78 lbs) and measure 6.27 meter (20′ 7″). As a member of the Otariidae family (genus: Arctocephalus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 1.57 meter (5′ 2″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella), is one of eight seals in the genus Arctocephalus, and one of nine fur seals in the subfamily Arctocephalinae. Despite what its name suggests, the Antarctic fur seal is mostly distributed in Subantarctic islands and its scientific name is thought to have come from the German vessel SMS Gazelle, which was the first to collect specimens of this species from Kerguelen Islands.
Animals of the same family as a Antarctic fur seal
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Otariidae):
- Galápagos fur seal becoming 22 years old
- Subantarctic fur seal becoming 23 years old
- Northern fur seal becoming 35 years old
- California sea lion becoming 30 years old
- Juan Fernández fur seal with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Australian sea lion becoming 16 years old
- South American sea lion becoming 24.75 years old
- Guadalupe fur seal becoming 24 years old
- Brown fur seal becoming 21 years old
- New Zealand sea lion with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that reach the same age as Antarctic fur seal
With an average age of 23 years, Antarctic fur seal are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Northern elephant seal usually reaching 20.25 years
- Japanese serow usually reaching 18.5 years
- Mountain goat usually reaching 19.17 years
- Roan antelope usually reaching 20 years
- Jaguar usually reaching 23 years
- Canada lynx usually reaching 26.75 years
- Townsend’s big-eared bat usually reaching 21.17 years
- Emperor tamarin usually reaching 20.17 years
- Red river hog usually reaching 20 years
- Patas monkey usually reaching 23.83 years
Animals with the same number of babies Antarctic fur seal
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat
- Prehensile-tailed hutia
- Black duiker
- Pennant’s colobus
- Gray brocket
- Lesser spot-nosed monkey
- Australian sea lion
- Grey-headed flying fox
- Central American squirrel monkey
- Polar bear
Weighting as much as Antarctic fur seal
A fully grown Antarctic fur seal reaches around 96.6 kg (212.97 lbs). So do these animals:
- Baikal seal weighting 89.5 kilos (197.31 lbs) on average
- Atlantic spotted dolphin weighting 110 kilos (242.51 lbs) on average
- Walia ibex weighting 99.77 kilos (219.95 lbs) on average
- Barbary sheep weighting 93.7 kilos (206.57 lbs) on average
- Hirola weighting 79.13 kilos (174.45 lbs) on average
- Marsh deer weighting 111.76 kilos (246.39 lbs) on average
- Ribbon seal weighting 90 kilos (198.42 lbs) on average
- Jaguar weighting 84.26 kilos (185.76 lbs) on average
- Lechwe weighting 88.02 kilos (194.05 lbs) on average
- Addax weighting 95.39 kilos (210.3 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Antarctic fur seal
Those animals grow as big as a Antarctic fur seal:
- Australian sea lion with 1.8 meter (5′ 11″)
- Philippine warty pig with 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Wild boar with 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Baiji with 1.7 meter (5′ 8″)
- White-tailed deer with 1.51 meter (5′ 0″)
- Javan rusa with 1.63 meter (5′ 5″)
- Ribbon seal with 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Jentink’s duiker with 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Eld’s deer with 1.65 meter (5′ 5″)
- Pronghorn with 1.31 meter (4′ 4″)