Mammals sorted by adult weight

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The mammals listed on this page are sorted by their birth weight. Not all mammals are listed, only the ones where we know their weight at birth. You can for example get the answer to 'how much does a ... weigh at birth?'. If you want to add anything to this list, pls contact us ( contact form below )

Mammal	Birth weight (kilograms)
Blue whale	2,000
Fin whale	1,800
Humpback whale	1,350
Bryde's whale	1,000
Southern right whale	910
Bowhead	900
Northern right whale	794
Sei whale	680
Gray whale	500
Minke whale	320
Killer whale	180
Long-finned pilot whale	110
Asian elephant	107
African elephant	105
Pygmy sperm whale	82
Narwhal	80
Beluga	66
Walrus	60
Short-finned pilot whale	60
Giraffe	59
Indian rhinoceros	58
White rhinoceros	53
African buffalo	44
Southern elephant seal	43
Grevy's zebra	40
Hippopotamus	40
Northern elephant seal	38
Water buffalo	38
Black rhinoceros	37
Bactrian camel	36
Mountain zebra	35
Bearded seal	35
Burchell's zebra	32
Caribbean manatee	32
Leopard seal	30
Weddell seal	29
Dugong	28
Atlantic white-sided dolphin	24
European bison	23
Sumatran rhinoceros	23
Gaur	23
Ross seal	20
American bison	20
Bongo	20
Bottlenosed dolphin	19
Mediterranean monk seal	19
Northern sea lion	19
Blue wildebeest	18
Hooded seal	18
Yak	18
Hawaiian monk seal	17
Sable antelope	16
Okapi	16
Roan antelope	15
Greater kudu	15
Pacific white-sided dolphin	14
Gray seal	14
Moose	13
Southern sea lion	13
Amazonian manatee	13
Irrawaddy dolphin	12
Gemsbok	12
Guanaco	12
Muskox	11
Topi	11
Black wildebeest	11
Pere David's deer	11
Harbor seal	11
Ribbon seal	11
Scimitar-horned oryx	10
Red deer	10
Pantropical spotted dolphin	10
Striped dolphin	10
Sambar	10
Baird's tapir	9
Hartebeest	9
Waterbuck	9
Harp seal	9
Franciscana	8
Spotted seal	7
Australian sea lion	7
New Zealand sea lion	7
California sea lion	7
Harbor porpoise	7
Short-beaked saddleback dolphin	7
Finless porpoise	7
Amazon dolphin	7
Sassaby or blesbok	7
Commerson's dolphin	7
Caribou and reindeer	7
Malayan tapir	7
South African fur seal	6
Takin	6
Lesser kudu	6
Brazilian tapir	6
Antarctic fur seal	6
Ringed seal	6
Nilgai	6
Sika deer	6
Vicugna	6
Grant's gazelle	6
Addax	6
Impala	6
Kob	5
Northern fur seal	5
Nyala	5
Lechwe	5
Nile lechwe	5
Caspian seal	5
Pygmy hippopotamus	5
Eld's deer	5
Rhim gazelle	5
Southern reedbuck	5
Fallow deer	5
Aoudad	5
Sub-Antarctic fur seal	4
Bighorn sheep	4
Mountain tapir	4
South American fur seal	4
Marsh deer	4
Springbok	4
Sitatunga	4
Blackbuck	4
West Caucasian tur	4
New Zealand fur seal	4
Bushbuck	4
East Caucasian tur	4
Southern fur seal	4
Saiga	4
Argali	3
Mountain goat	3
Chital	3
Baikal seal	3
White-tailed deer	3
Mountain reedbuck	3
Pronghorn	3
Mule deer	3
Mongolian gazelle	3
Ibex	3
Dall's sheep	3
Goitered gazelle	3
Thomson's gazelle	3
Chamois	2
Yellow-backed duiker	2
Mountain gazelle	2
Oribi	2
Pampas deer	2
Gorilla	2
Himalayan tahr	2
Goral	2
Sea otter	2
Chimpanzee	2
Aardvark	2
Eastern roe deer	2
Orangutan	2
Zebra duiker	2
Dorcas gazelle	2
Bush duiker	2
Bay duiker	2
Giant anteater	2
Capybara	2
Spotted hyena	1
Pygmy chimpanzee or bonono	1
Lion	1
Speke's gazelle	1
Giant forest hog	1
Indian muntjac	1
Tiger	1
Klipspringer	1
African clawless otter	1
Reeves's muntjac	1
Four-horned antelope	1
Chinese water deer	1
Western roe deer	1
African porcupine	1
Javan pig	1
Wild boar	1
Red-flanked duiker	1
Steenbok	1
Gray brocket	1
Southern pudu	1
Pacarana	1
Maxwell's duiker	1
Jaguar	1
Hamadryas baboon	1
Blue duiker	1
Alpine musk deer	1
Red river hog	1
Drill	1
Babirusa	1
King colobus	1
Collared peccary	1
White-lipped peccary	1
Striped hyena	1
Brown hyena	1
Gunther's dik-dik	1
Paca	1
Polar bear	1
Wart hog	1
Mandrill	1
Chacoan peccary	1
Kirk's dik-dik	1
Patagonian cavy	1
Leopard	1
Red brocket	1
European beaver	1
Tibetan macaque	1
Chinese forest musk deer	1
Brown bear and grizzly bear	1
Patas monkey	1
Hanuman langur	1
North American porcupine	1
Japanese macaque	0
Proboscis monkey	0
Cheetah	0
Mexican black howler monkey	0
Stump-tailed macaque	0
Snow leopard	0
Diana monkey	0
Gelada baboon	0
Rhesus monkey	0
Asiatic black bear	0
Pigtail macaque	0
Celebes crested macaque	0
Siberian musk deer	0
Francois' langur	0
Black spider monkey	0
Barbary macaque	0
Gray wolf	0
Toque macaque	0
Old World porcupine	0
Purple-faced leaf monkey	0
American beaver	0
Central American spider monkey	0
Gray-cheeked mangabey	0
Mantled howler monkey	0
Prehensile-tailed porcupine	0
Liontail macaque	0
White-nosed guenon	0
Hoffmann's two-toed sloth	0
Sloth bear	0
Cougar	0
Guereza	0
Douc langur	0
Bonnet macaque	0
African civet	0
Tree hyrax	0
Greater mouse-deer	0
Black-cheeked white-nosed monkey	0
Lesser mouse-deer	0
Maned wolf	0
Blue monkey	0
Linne's two-toed sloth	0
Cape porcupine	0
Indian pangolin	0
Moustached monkey	0
Crowned guenon	0
Sun bear	0
Spectacled bear	0
Long-tailed macaque	0
Indian spotted chevrotain	0
African wild dog	0
Binturong	0
White-handed gibbon	0
Dusky leaf monkey	0
Mona monkey	0
American black bear	0
Dhole	0
Springhare	0
Bobcat	0
Serval	0
Red howler monkey	0
De Brazza's monkey	0
Mountain viscacha	0
Ocelot	0
Coyote	0
Asiatic golden cat	0
African golden cat	0
Lynx	0
Brown capuchin	0
Cuban hutia	0
White-fronted capuchin	0
White-faced capuchin	0
Central American agouti	0
Bush hyrax	0
Nutria	0
Allen's swamp monkey	0
Honey badger	0
Golden jackal	0
Rock hyrax	0
Giant otter	0
Canada lynx	0
Talapoin	0
Plains viscacha	0
Pygmy hog	0
Black howler monkey	0
Peruvian mountain viscacha	0
Kinkajou	0
Fishing cat	0
Clouded leopard	0
Margay	0
Caracal	0
Bush dog	0
Black-backed jackal	0
Brush-tailed porcupine	0
Diademed sifaka	0
Northern river otter	0
Crab-eating fox	0
Coatimundi	0
White-nosed coati	0
Jungle cat	0
Cane rat	0
Hairy armadillo	0
Banded palm civet	0
Bat-eared fox	0
Monk saki	0
European hare	0
Cape hare	0
Eurasian river otter	0
Giant panda	0
Aye-aye	0
Mountain hare	0
South American squirrel monkey	0
Hispaniolan hutia	0
Pichi	0
Six-banded armadillo	0
Red fox	0
Lesser panda	0
Marsh mongoose	0
Wild cat	0
Haitian solenodon	0
Fossa	0
Acouchi	0
Lemurine night monkey	0
Golden-crowned sifaka	0
Leopard cat	0
Wolverine	0
Gray fox	0
White-tailed jackrabbit	0
American badger	0
Chinese pangolin	0
Common palm civet	0
Northern night monkey	0
Ruffed lemur	0
Dusky titi	0
Red-bellied lemur	0
Marbled cat	0
Guinea pig	0
Black-tailed jack rabbit	0
Tayra	0
Brown lemur	0
Owston's palm civet	0
Golden-rumped elephant shrew	0
Old World badger	0
Gray-headed flying fox	0
Bahamian hutia	0
Common raccoon	0
La Plata three-banded armadillo	0
Small-spotted genet	0
Black giant squirrel	0
Rock cavy	0
Raccoon dog	0
Pale fox	0
Black lemur	0
Coppery titi	0
Large-spotted genet	0
Verreaux's sifaka	0
Black-footed cat	0
Ring-tailed lemur	0
Crab-eating raccoon	0
Crowned lemur	0
Malagasy civet	0
Common long-nosed armadillo	0
Corsac fox	0
Giant armadillo	0
Snowshoe rabbit	0
Brazilian guinea pig	0
Indian fox	0
Hog badger	0
Oriental small-clawed otter	0
Sand cat	0
Indian giant flying squirrel	0
African palm civet	0
Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat	0
Golden lion tamarin	0
Olingo	0
Mongoose lemur	0
Straw-colored fruit bat	0
Malagasy ring-tailed mongoose	0
Narrow-striped mongoose	0
Slow loris	0
Goeldi's monkey	0
Black-chested mustached tamarin	0
Emperor tamarin	0
Geoffroy's tamarin	0
Small-eared galago	0
Indian flying fox	0
Riverine or bushman rabbit	0
Old World rabbit	0
Rodriguez flying fox	0
Bamboo lemur	0
Potto	0
Silvery-brown bare-face tamarin	0
Black-mantled tamarin	0
Greater galago	0
Red-chested mustached tamarin	0
Midas tamarin	0
Saddlebacked tamarin	0
Eastern cottontail	0
Banded linsang	0
Yellow-toothed cavy	0
Kit fox	0
Swift fox	0
Hammer-headed fruit bat	0
Cotton-top tamarin	0
Flying lemur (glider)	0
Banded mongoose	0
Common yellow-toothed cavy	0
Bobak marmot	0
Chinchilla	0
Fisher	0
Black-footed tree rat	0
Audubon's cottontail rabbit	0
Striped skunk	0
Yellow-bellied marmot	0
Four-toed elephant shrew	0
American marten	0
European pine marten	0
New England cottontail rabbit	0
Ringtail	0
Alpine marmot	0
Sable	0
Gundi	0
Blanford's fox	0
Meerkat	0
Brush rabbit	0
White-tufted-ear marmoset	0
Woodchuck	0
Weasel sportive lemur	0
Philippine tarsier	0
Mountain beaver	0
Javan mongoose	0
Gambian rat	0
Fennec	0
Calabar angwantibo	0
Cacomistle	0
Greater hedgehog tenrec	0
Cayenne spiny rat	0
Western tarsier	0
Spectral tarsier	0
Allen's squirrel galago	0
Golden-bellied water rat	0
Armored rat	0
Spiny rat	0
Pygmy loris	0
Muskrat	0
Eastern European hedgehog	0
Brazilian spiny rat	0
Tenrec	0
Quaira spiny rat	0
East African mole rat	0
Philippine tree shrew	0
Giant mole-rat	0
South African ground squirrel	0
Fat-tailed dwarf lemur	0
Chozchoz	0
Greater dwarf lemur	0
Peters's climbing rat	0
Prevost's squirrel	0
Black-tailed prairie dog	0
Vlei rat	0
Eastern gray squirrel	0
Western European hedgehog	0
Eastern fox squirrel	0
Moonrat	0
Striped polecat, zorilla	0
Degus	0
Bushy-tailed woodrat	0
Smith's bush squirrel	0
Tree shrew	0
Eastern woodrat	0
White-throated woodrat	0
Leschenault's rousette	0
Streaked tenrec	0
Southern plains woodrat	0
Abert's squirrel	0
Senegal galago	0
Slender loris	0
South African galago	0
Rufous elephant shrew	0
Great fruit-eating bat	0
Greater short-nosed fruit bat	0
Pen-tailed tree shrew	0
Congo rope squirrel	0
Red-tailed squirrel	0
Long-eared desert hedgehog	0
Hairy-tailed mole	0
European polecat	0
Northern tree shrew	0
African pygmy (four-toed) hedgehog	0
Spotted skunk	0
Long-eared elephant shrew	0
Green bush squirrel	0
South African hedgehog	0
African mole rat	0
Small pika	0
Eurasian red squirrel	0
Collared pika	0
Damaraland mole-rat	0
North American pika	0
European mink	0
Banner-tailed kangaroo rat	0
Lesser hedgehog tenrec	0
Vampire bat	0
Desert woodrat	0
Rock squirrel	0
Greater false vampire bat	0
Tuco-tuco	0
Cape mole-rat	0
Golden spiny mouse	0
Red squirrel	0
Silvery mole-rat	0
Black-bellied hamster	0
Belding's ground squirrel	0
Brown mouse lemur	0
White-tailed mouse	0
Lesser bamboo rat	0
Northern palm squirrel	0
Pale spear-nosed bat	0
Short-eared elephant shrew	0
Hoary bat	0
Yellow-faced pocket gopher	0
Norway rat	0
Gray mouse lemur	0
Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel	0
Jamaican fruit-eating bat	0
Fat sand rat	0
Hispid cotton rat	0
Northern flying squirrel	0
Golden-mantled ground squirrel	0
Greater horseshoe bat	0
Mouse-eared bat	0
Richardson's ground squirrel	0
Long-tailed mouse	0
Mohave ground squirrel	0
Nelson's antelope squirrel	0
Libyan jird	0
Noctule	0
Serotine	0
European water vole	0
Rat	0
Eastern aquatic mole	0
Plains pocket gopher	0
Persian jird	0
Japanese giant flying squirrel	0
Great gerbil	0
Bush rat	0
Water vole	0
Cape gerbil	0
Geoffroy's tailless bat	0
Spiny mouse	0
Vesper rat	0
Seba's short-tailed bat	0
Ord's kangaroo rat	0
Australian swamp rat	0
Heermann's kangaroo rat	0
Talazaci's long-tailed tenrec	0
Nile kusu	0
Shaw's jird	0
Round-tailed ground squirrel	0
Woodland mouse	0
Collared lemming	0
Siberian chipmunk	0
White-naped weasel	0
Big brown bat	0
Woodland dormouse	0
Harris's antelope squirrel	0
Australian native mouse	0
Richardson's collared lemming	0
Norway lemming	0
California mouse	0
Dobson's long-tailed tenrec	0
Townsend's chipmunk	0
Prairie vole	0
Mongolian jird	0
Pallid bat	0
Rafinesque's big-eared bat	0
Brazilian free-tailed bat	0
Cape short-eared gerbil	0
Southern grasshopper mouse	0
Acacia rat	0
Wood lemming	0
Desert kangaroo rat	0
Four-striped grass mouse	0
Rock mouse	0
Cave myotis	0
Pencil-tailed tree mouse	0
Vinogradov's jird	0
Common weasel	0
Colorado chipmunk	0
Arctic lemming	0
Southern bog lemming	0
Tullberg's rock rat	0
Merriam's kangaroo rat	0
Thirteen-lined ground squirrel	0
Greater Egyptian gerbil	0
House shrew	0
Gray myotis	0
Eastern chipmunk	0
Botta's pocket gopher	0
European mole, common mole	0
Northern pocket gopher	0
Tamarisk jird	0
Yellow-pine chipmunk	0
Pouched mouse	0
Southern flying squirrel	0
Golden mouse	0
Flat-headed vole	0
Vole	0
New Zealand lesser short-tailed bat	0
Northern grasshopper mouse	0
Indian gerbil	0
Australian hopping mouse	0
Sundevall's jird	0
Fresno kangaroo rat	0
Long-tailed weasel	0
White-tailed antelope squirrel	0
Striped dwarf hamster	0
Typical striped grass mouse	0
Field vole	0
Least chipmunk	0
Evening bat	0
Canyon mouse	0
Eastern heather vole	0
Common vole	0
Pinyon mouse	0
Korean field mouse	0
Pale gerbil	0
Woodland vole	0
Tundra vole	0
Great Basin pocket mouse	0
Dzhungarian hamster	0
Cactus mouse	0
European pine vole	0
Brandt's vole	0
Little brown bat	0
Highland gerbil mouse	0
Naked mole-rat	0
Old World wood and field mouse	0
Fawn-colored mouse	0
Greater red musk shrew	0
Meadow vole	0
Red-backed mouse	0
Forest dormouse	0
White-footed mouse	0
Striped field mouse	0
Mediterranean pine vole	0
Lesser Egyptian jerboa	0
Silver-haired bat	0
Western broad-nosed bat	0
Townsend's big-eared bat	0
Ermine	0
Western heather vole	0
Golden hamster	0
Florida mouse	0
Fat mouse	0
Deer mouse	0
Yellow-necked mouse	0
Oldfield mouse	0
Fringed myotis	0
Ornate shrew	0
Desert hamster	0
Red-necked wallaby	0
Bicolored white-toothed shrew	0
Hairy-nosed wombat	0
House mouse	0
Large-eared tenrec	0
Western jumping mouse	0
Steppe lemming	0
Western long-eared myotis	0
Long-tailed pocket mouse	0
Eurasian water shrew	0
Black-striped scrub wallaby	0
Common pipistrelle	0
Ryukyu mouse	0
Ringtailed rock wallaby	0
Vagrant shrew	0
Red kangaroo	0
Hazel dormouse	0
White-toothed shrew	0
Coarse-haired wombat	0
Forest shrew	0
Western gray kangaroo	0
Little pocket mouse	0
Eastern pipistrelle	0
Woodland jumping mouse	0
Lesser shrew	0
Agile wallaby	0
Parma wallaby	0
Old World harvest mouse	0
Black myotis	0
Crowned shrew	0
Wallaroo	0
Mouse	0
Short-tailed shrew	0
Meadow jumping mouse	0
Swamp wallaby	0
Eastern gray kangaroo	0
Alston's brown mouse	0
Northern pygmy mouse	0
Southern water shrew	0
Antilopine wallaroo	0
Western harvest mouse	0
Sugar glider	0
Brown antechinus	0
Southern opossum	0
Honey possum	0
Eurasian pygmy shrew	0
Fat-tailed marsupial mouse	0
Quoll	0
Shorttailed opossum	0
Least shrew	0
Dormouse possum	0
Woolly opossum	0
Brindled bandicoot	0
Tasmanian bettong	0
Wongai ningaui	0
Virginia opossum	0
Pygmy gliding possum	0
White-toothed pygmy shrew	0
Potoroo	0
Tasmanian devil	0
Gray four-eyed opossum	0
Greater gliding possum	0
Eurasian shrew	0
Southern brown bandicoot	0
Koala	0
Burrowing bettong	0
Quokka	0
Pilbara ningaui	0
Murine mouse opossum	0
Brush-tailed possum	0
Tasmanian red-bellied pademelon	0
Tammar wallaby	0
Fat-tailed dunnart	0
Long-nosed bandicoot	0
Swamp antechinus	0
Cinereus shrew	0
Ring-tailed possum	0
Short-nosed echidna	0
Greater long-nosed bandicoot	0
Woylie	0
Paucident planigale	0
Western quoll	0
Robinson's mouse opossum	0
Cinnamon antechinus	0
Stripe-faced dunnart	0