How big does a Horsfield’s tarsier get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Horsfield’s tarsier (Tarsius bancanus) reaches an average size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 12 years, they grow from 24 grams (0.05 lbs) to 114 grams (0.25 lbs). A Horsfield’s tarsier has 1 babies at once. The Horsfield’s tarsier (genus: Tarsius) is a member of the family Tarsiidae.
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.
Horsfield’s tarsier (Cephalopachus bancanus), also known as the western tarsier, is the only species of tarsier in the genus Cephalopachus. It occurs on Borneo, Sumatra and nearby islands and is, like other members of the group, entirely nocturnal.
Animals of the same family as a Horsfield’s tarsier
We found other animals of the Tarsiidae family:
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pygmy tarsier with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Peleng tarsier with 1 babies per litter
- Sangihe tarsier with 1 babies per litter
- Spectral tarsier with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Philippine tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spectral tarsier with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same size as a Horsfield’s tarsier
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Horsfield’s tarsier:
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed dasyure with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rock vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western chestnut mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Singing vole with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese mountain mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-eared squirrel with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Horsfield’s tarsier
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Horsfield’s tarsier:
- Siamang
- Mongoose lemur
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat
- Reeves’s muntjac
- Insular flying fox
- Senegal bushbaby
- Black wallaroo
- Tana River mangabey
- Lowlands tree-kangaroo
- Small bent-winged bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Horsfield’s tarsier
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Horsfield’s tarsier:
- Rhim gazelle with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Malabar large-spotted civet with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Jaguarundi with an average maximal age of 10.58 years
- Bengal fox with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Maxwell’s duiker with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
- Speke’s pectinator with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Bat-eared fox with an average maximal age of 13.75 years
- Banded mongoose with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Jamaican fruit bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Short-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 10 years
Animals with the same weight as a Horsfield’s tarsier
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tarsius bancanus:
- Vinogradov’s jird bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Coruro bringing 101 grams to the scale
- Angoni vlei rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Giant roundleaf bat bringing 115 grams to the scale
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Guinean gerbil bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Romanian hamster bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Kowari bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 125 grams to the scale