It is hard to guess what a Giant bandicoot weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Giant bandicoot (Peroryctes broadbenti) on average weights 4.8 kg (10.58 lbs).
The Giant bandicoot is from the family Peroryctidae (genus: Peroryctes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 51.5 cm (1′ 9″). Usually, Giant 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 giant bandicoot (Peroryctes broadbenti) is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae endemic to Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.The type locality is Papua New Guinea, Central Prov., banks of Goldie River (a tributary of the Laloki River) inland from Port Moresby.
Animals of the same family as a Giant bandicoot
We found other animals of the Peroryctidae family:
- Clara’s echymipera bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- David’s echymipera with a weight of 817 grams
- Menzies’ echymipera bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Papuan bandicoot with a weight of 158 grams
- Common echymipera with a weight of 825 grams
- Striped bandicoot with a weight of 542 grams
- Raffray’s bandicoot with a weight of 905 grams
- Long-nosed echymipera bringing 1.05 kilos (2.31 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Giant bandicoot
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peroryctes broadbenti:
- Hairy long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 4.44 kilos (9.79 lbs)
- Crab-eating fox with a weight of 5.74 kilos (12.65 lbs)
- Hoary fox with a weight of 4.23 kilos (9.33 lbs)
- Arctic hare with a weight of 4.42 kilos (9.74 lbs)
- Masked palm civet with a weight of 4.3 kilos (9.48 lbs)
- Blue duiker with a weight of 4.86 kilos (10.71 lbs)
- Brown’s pademelon with a weight of 5.48 kilos (12.08 lbs)
- Pagai Island macaque with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- Günther’s dik-dik with a weight of 4.61 kilos (10.16 lbs)
- Black howler with a weight of 5.58 kilos (12.3 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Giant bandicoot
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Giant bandicoot:
- White-bellied spider monkey with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- White-thighed surili with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Lesser grison with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Mentawai langur with a size of 51 cm (1′ 9″)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Coypu with a size of 52.1 cm (1′ 9″)
- Marbled cat with a size of 51.7 cm (1′ 9″)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with a size of 52.5 cm (1′ 9″)
- African savanna hare with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Tufted capuchin with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Giant bandicoot
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Giant bandicoot: