Weigh It Up · Animals
How heavy is Sperm whale?
50 tweight
Britannica puts a full-grown male sperm whale at up to 50 tonnes.
Enter your height to compare yourself with Sperm whale.
- 4.17× the city bus (12 t)
- 8.33× the african elephant (6 t)
- 38.5× the family car (1.3 t)
How to picture 50 t
Start from something you can see right now. Sperm whale is about 4.17× city bus. That is exactly the estimate the board asks you to draw: pick a reference, decide the ratio, resize the silhouette.
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