It is hard to guess what a Gansu pika weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gansu pika (Ochotona cansus) on average weights 69 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Gansu pika is from the family Ochotonidae (genus: Ochotona). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.4 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Gansu pikas can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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 Gansu pika (Ochotona cansus) is a species of mammal in the pika family, Ochotonidae. It is endemic to China.
Animals of the same family as a Gansu pika
We found other animals of the Ochotonidae family:
- Tsing-ling pika with a weight of 105 grams
- Chinese red pika with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Northern pika with a weight of 120 grams
- Gaoligong pika with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Royle’s pika with a weight of 260 grams
- Moupin pika with a weight of 35 grams
- Ili pika with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Koslov’s pika with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Daurian pika with a weight of 131 grams
- Steppe pika with a weight of 143 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gansu pika
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ochotona cansus:
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Nephelomys keaysi bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys megacephalus bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Abyssinian grass rat bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys russatus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Arctic lemming bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat bringing 56 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gansu pika
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gansu pika:
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Garden dormouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- False water rat with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Siberian flying squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hairy-tailed mole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Slender rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Marajó short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gansu pika
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Gansu pika:
- Arizona gray squirrel
- Southern big-eared mouse
- Savanna gerbil
- Major’s pine vole
- North American beaver
- Cape gerbil
- Striped hog-nosed skunk
- Xerus erythropus
- Northern collared lemming
- Northern grasshopper mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Gansu pika
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Gansu pika:
- Black rat with an average maximal age of 4.17 years
- Numbat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Rufous horseshoe bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Eurasian harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Greater grison with an average maximal age of 5.25 years
- Xerus erythropus with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Greater cane rat with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- White-tailed rat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Desert hedgehog with an average maximal age of 4.5 years