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Ocean Giants - Weight Statistics

Whales

  • Blue Whale 150,000 kgs (largest whale, largest known animal ever)
  • Sperm Whale 50,000 kgs (largest toothed whale)
  • Beards Beake Whale 11,000 kgs (second largest toothed whale?)
  • Killer Whale 8,000 kgs (largest whale eating whale)

    • Seals

  • Elephant Seal 3,400 kgs (largest bull measured)
  • Walrus 1,800 kgs
  • Steller's Sea Lion 1,100 kgs

    • Sirenia

  • Steller's Sea Cow 10,000 kgs (recently extinct)
  • West Indian Manatee 1,500 kgs (very large ones)

    • Reptiles

  • Saltwater Crocodile 770 kgs (typical healthy adult male
    1500 kgs and more possible
  • Leather Back Turtle 900 kgs

    • Bony Fish

  • Ocean Sunfish 2300 kgs
  • Atlantic Blue Marlin 820 kgs (largest bony fish that feeds on bony fish)

    Sharks and Rays

  • Whale Shark 21,000 kgs (largest reliably measured)
  • Basking Shark 16,000 kgs (largest reliably measured)
  • Manta Ray 3,000 kgs
  • Great White Shark 2,0000 kgs (largest preditory shark)

    • Squid

  • Colossal Squid somewhat larger than a Giant Squid
  • Giant Squid 100s not 1000s of Kgs

    • I am writing an essay on why whales can grow so large. I am also planning several other web pages on why animals are the size they are.

    In the process I am collecting statistics, so why not put them on the Internet. I have given you freely rounded, ball park figures. I am roughly changing figures from pounds or tons to killograms, kgs.

    My sources are the American Cetacean Society and Wikipedia. You can go to these and other sources for better figures, but this will give you the rough size ratios.
     

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