It is hard to guess what a Palawan treeshrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Palawan treeshrew (Tupaia palawanensis) on average weights 168 grams (0.37 lbs).
The Palawan treeshrew is from the family Tupaiidae (genus: Tupaia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.5 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Palawan treeshrew (Tupaia palawanensis) is a treeshrew species endemic to the Palawan Island, Philippines, where it occurs from sea level to an elevation of 1,400 m (4,600 ft). The population is considered steady.Formerly, it was considered a subspecies of the common treeshrew.
Animals of the same family as a Palawan treeshrew
We found other animals of the Tupaiidae family:
- Slender treeshrew with a weight of 112 grams
- Pygmy treeshrew with a weight of 70 grams
- Long-footed treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew with a weight of 60 grams
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with a weight of 42 grams
- Painted treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Ruddy treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Common treeshrew with a weight of 132 grams
- Northern treeshrew with a weight of 200 grams
- Nicobar treeshrew with a weight of 170 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Palawan treeshrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tupaia palawanensis:
- Bolivian chinchilla rat bringing 158 grams to the scale
- Moon-toothed degu bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Greater Egyptian jerboa bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Plains pocket gopher bringing 179 grams to the scale
- Red-crested tree-rat bringing 145 grams to the scale
- Mendoza tuco-tuco bringing 179 grams to the scale
- Three-striped ground squirrel bringing 175 grams to the scale
- Mohol bushbaby bringing 193 grams to the scale
- Little ground squirrel bringing 174 grams to the scale
- Harpy fruit bat bringing 135 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Palawan treeshrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Palawan treeshrew:
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Siberian flying squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Slender squirrel with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Vinogradov’s jird with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Palawan spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gray short-tailed opossum with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Giluwe rat with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)