How big does a Chinese pangolin get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) reaches an average size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 4.67 kg (10.3 lbs). On birth they have a weight of 88 grams (0.19 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Chinese pangolins have 1 babies about 1 times per year. The Chinese pangolin (genus: Manis) is a member of the family Manidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) is a pangolin native to the northern Indian subcontinent, northern parts of Southeast Asia and southern China. It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2014, as the wild population is estimated to have declined by more than 80% in three pangolin generations, equal to 21 years. It is threatened by poaching for the illegal wildlife trade.
Animals of the same family as a Chinese pangolin
We found other animals of the Manidae family:
- Tree pangolin with 1 babies per litter
- Long-tailed pangolin with 1 babies per litter
- Indian pangolin with a size of 54.3 cm (1′ 10″)
- Sunda pangolin with a size of 59 cm (2′ 0″)
- Ground pangolin with a size of 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Giant pangolin bringing 33 kilos (72.75 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Chinese pangolin
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Chinese pangolin:
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with a size of 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat with a size of 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Cape hare with a size of 42.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Northern brown bandicoot with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Red-bellied titi with a size of 35.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Malagasy giant rat with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Hispaniolan solenodon with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Ring-tailed cat with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Red giant flying squirrel with a size of 41.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Golden bamboo lemur with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Chinese pangolin
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Chinese pangolin:
- Bennett’s tree-kangaroo
- Baikal seal
- African manatee
- Cuvier’s gazelle
- Doria’s tree-kangaroo
- Kerivoula hardwickei
- Southern elephant seal
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
- Muskox
- Gray snub-nosed monkey
Animals with the same weight as a Chinese pangolin
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Manis pentadactyla:
- Pileated gibbon with a weight of 5.57 kilos (12.28 lbs)
- Bridled nail-tail wallaby with a weight of 4.95 kilos (10.91 lbs)
- Sulawesi palm civet with a weight of 5.15 kilos (11.35 lbs)
- European wildcat with a weight of 4.53 kilos (9.99 lbs)
- Hairy long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 4.44 kilos (9.79 lbs)
- Tammar wallaby with a weight of 5.28 kilos (11.64 lbs)
- Northern naked-tailed armadillo with a weight of 3.74 kilos (8.25 lbs)
- Spotted-necked otter with a weight of 4.19 kilos (9.24 lbs)
- Crab-eating macaque with a weight of 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs)
- Blue monkey with a weight of 5.04 kilos (11.11 lbs)