It is hard to guess what a Gray-backed sportive lemur weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gray-backed sportive lemur (Lepilemur dorsalis) on average weights 506 grams (1.12 lbs).
The Gray-backed sportive lemur is from the family Megaladapidae (genus: Lepilemur). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 25.5 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Gray-backed sportive lemurs have 1 babies per litter.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The gray-backed sportive lemur (Lepilemur dorsalis), also known as Gray’s sportive lemur or back-striped sportive lemur, is a species of lemur in the family Lepilemuridae. It is endemic to Madagascar. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Gray-backed sportive lemur
We found other animals of the Megaladapidae family:
- Red-tailed sportive lemur with a weight of 763 grams
- Weasel sportive lemur with a weight of 670 grams
- Small-toothed sportive lemur with a weight of 955 grams
- Milne-Edwards’ sportive lemur with a weight of 822 grams
- White-footed sportive lemur with a weight of 600 grams
- Northern sportive lemur with a weight of 760 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gray-backed sportive lemur
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Lepilemur dorsalis:
- Kashmir flying squirrel bringing 510 grams to the scale
- Yellow-crowned brush-tailed rat bringing 445 grams to the scale
- Red-handed tamarin bringing 541 grams to the scale
- Gilliard’s flying fox bringing 406 grams to the scale
- Painted tree-rat bringing 519 grams to the scale
- Masoala fork-marked lemur bringing 409 grams to the scale
- Peruvian tuco-tuco bringing 489 grams to the scale
- Emperor tamarin bringing 409 grams to the scale
- Slender mongoose bringing 530 grams to the scale
- Greater guinea pig bringing 460 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gray-backed sportive lemur
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gray-backed sportive lemur:
- Derby’s woolly opossum with a size of 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Grey-headed flying fox with a size of 27.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Prevost’s squirrel with a size of 24.7 cm (0′ 10″)
- Colombian weasel with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Water opossum with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Hispaniolan solenodon with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Western gray squirrel with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Forest giant squirrel with a size of 29.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Saharan striped polecat with a size of 24.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Painted ringtail possum with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gray-backed sportive lemur
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Gray-backed sportive lemur: