It is hard to guess what a Striped bandicoot weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Striped bandicoot (Microperoryctes longicauda) on average weights 542 grams (1.19 lbs).
The Striped bandicoot is from the family Peroryctidae (genus: Microperoryctes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26.7 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Striped bandicoots 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 striped bandicoot (Microperoryctes longicauda) is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. The Striped bandicoot is a host of the Acanthocephalan intestinal parasite Australiformis semoni.
Animals of the same family as a Striped bandicoot
We found other animals of the Peroryctidae family:
- Papuan bandicoot with a weight of 158 grams
- Menzies’ echymipera bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Common echymipera with a weight of 825 grams
- Raffray’s bandicoot with a weight of 905 grams
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Clara’s echymipera bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- David’s echymipera with a weight of 817 grams
- Giant bandicoot bringing 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs) to the scale
- Long-nosed echymipera bringing 1.05 kilos (2.31 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Striped bandicoot
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microperoryctes longicauda:
- Cotton-top tamarin bringing 463 grams to the scale
- Brazilian yellow-toothed cavy bringing 450 grams to the scale
- Black-mantled tamarin bringing 450 grams to the scale
- Painted tree-rat bringing 518 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat bringing 439 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed armored tree-rat bringing 439 grams to the scale
- European mink bringing 567 grams to the scale
- Epixerus bringing 559 grams to the scale
- Arizona gray squirrel bringing 647 grams to the scale
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat bringing 502 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Striped bandicoot
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Striped bandicoot:
- Sardinian pika with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Stoat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Mountain beaver with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat with a size of 26.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Cotton-top tamarin with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Siberian weasel with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black jackrabbit with a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 28.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Koslov’s pika with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Great flying fox with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Striped bandicoot
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Striped bandicoot: