It is hard to guess what a Afghan pika weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Afghan pika (Ochotona rufescens) on average weights 250 grams (0.55 lbs).
The Afghan pika is from the family Ochotonidae (genus: Ochotona). It is usually born with about 11 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.7 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Afghan pikas can have babies 4 times per year with a litter size of 6.
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 Afghan pika (Ochotona rufescens) is a species of small mammal in the pika family, Ochotonidae. It is found in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Turkmenistan and the IUCN lists it as being of “least concern”.
Animals of the same family as a Afghan pika
We found other animals of the Ochotonidae family:
- Nubra pika with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Plateau pika with a weight of 160 grams
- Collared pika with a weight of 129 grams
- Gansu pika with a weight of 69 grams
- Chinese red pika with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Himalayan pika with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tsing-ling pika with a weight of 105 grams
- Koslov’s pika with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Northern pika with a weight of 120 grams
- American pika with a weight of 158 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Afghan pika
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ochotona rufescens:
- Brown rat bringing 282 grams to the scale
- Squirrel glider bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Simons’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot bringing 220 grams to the scale
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Fire-footed rope squirrel bringing 243 grams to the scale
- Large-eared pika bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Pacific spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Afghan pika
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Afghan pika:
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Painted treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tropical pocket gopher with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Japen rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Camas pocket gopher with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bryant’s woodrat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-footed treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Afghan pika
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Afghan pika: