How much does an orangutan weigh?
80 kg176 lbWhich one: wild adult male Bornean orangutan
An orangutan weighs about 80 kg (176 lb).
Animals vary, so Tilt always names a specific, common adult: a worker bee, a house mouse, a Labrador, a bull rather than a calf. The label tells you which one. Source for this figure: Rayadin and Spehar 2015, Am. J. Phys. Anthropol..
How heavy is that?
- An orangutan weighs about as much as 18 cats.
- An orangutan weighs about as much as 390 smartphones.
- An orangutan weighs about as much as 80,000 paperclips.
- It takes about 6.3 orangutans to balance a horse.
- It takes about 1,900 orangutans to balance a blue whale.
About the same weight
More animals
- White-tailed deer 63.5 kg
- Great Dane 71.4 kg
- Red kangaroo 72 kg
- Giant panda 100 kg
- Black bear 113 kg
- Pig 130 kg
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