How big does a Vaquita get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Vaquita (Phocoena sinus) reaches an average size of 1.52 meter (5′ 0″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 43.11 kg (95.05 lbs). The Vaquita (genus: Phocoena) is a member of the family Phocoenidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
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:
- Dall’s porpoise with a size of 1.97 meter (6′ 6″)
- Spectacled porpoise bringing 65 kilos (143.3 lbs) to the scale
- Harbour porpoise with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Finless porpoise with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Burmeister’s porpoise bringing 60 kilos (132.28 lbs) to the scale
- Australophocaena dioptrica bringing 65 kilos (143.3 lbs) to the scale
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:
- Sloth bear with a size of 1.6 meter (5′ 3″)
- Bawean deer with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Javan warty pig with a size of 1.25 meter (4′ 2″)
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis with a size of 1.45 meter (4′ 10″)
- Sea otter with a size of 1.44 meter (4′ 9″)
- Giant panda with a size of 1.35 meter (4′ 6″)
- Grant’s gazelle with a size of 1.53 meter (5′ 1″)
- Anoa with a size of 1.73 meter (5′ 9″)
- Leopard with a size of 1.38 meter (4′ 7″)
- Saola with a size of 1.75 meter (5′ 9″)
Animals with the same weight as a Vaquita
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phocoena sinus:
- Brown hyena with a weight of 43.4 kilos (95.68 lbs)
- Chacoan peccary with a weight of 35.38 kilos (78 lbs)
- Siberian roe deer with a weight of 41.19 kilos (90.81 lbs)
- Calamian deer with a weight of 39.66 kilos (87.44 lbs)
- Brown hyena with a weight of 42.98 kilos (94.75 lbs)
- Pronghorn with a weight of 47.18 kilos (104.01 lbs)
- Striped hyena with a weight of 35.09 kilos (77.36 lbs)
- La Plata dolphin with a weight of 40.5 kilos (89.29 lbs)
- Soemmerring’s gazelle with a weight of 41.58 kilos (91.67 lbs)
- Japanese serow with a weight of 42.6 kilos (93.92 lbs)