It is hard to guess what a Aye-aye weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) on average weights 2.74 kg (6.04 lbs).
The Aye-aye is from the family Daubentoniidae (genus: Daubentonia). It is usually born with about 122 grams (0.27 lbs). They can live for up to 24.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 40 cm (1′ 4″). Usually, Aye-ayes 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 aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is a long-fingered lemur, a strepsirrhine primate native to Madagascar with rodent-like teeth that perpetually grow and a special thin middle finger.It is the world’s largest nocturnal primate. It is characterized by its unusual method of finding food: it taps on trees to find grubs, then gnaws holes in the wood using its forward-slanting incisors to create a small hole in which it inserts its narrow middle finger to pull the grubs out. This foraging method is called percussive foraging, and takes up 5–41% of foraging time. The only other animal species known to find food in this way is the striped possum. From an ecological point of view, the aye-aye fills the niche of a woodpecker, as it is capable of penetrating wood to extract the invertebrates within.The aye-aye is the only extant member of the genus Daubentonia and family Daubentoniidae. It is currently classified as Endangered by the IUCN; and a second species, Daubentonia robusta, appears to have become extinct at some point within the last 1000 years.
Animals with the same weight as a Aye-aye
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Daubentonia madagascariensis:
- African brush-tailed porcupine with a weight of 2.88 kilos (6.35 lbs)
- Smith’s red rock hare with a weight of 2.25 kilos (4.96 lbs)
- Bates’s pygmy antelope with a weight of 2.96 kilos (6.53 lbs)
- Ethiopian highland hare with a weight of 2.77 kilos (6.11 lbs)
- Eastern hare-wallaby with a weight of 3 kilos (6.61 lbs)
- Hispid hare with a weight of 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs)
- Burmese hare with a weight of 2.27 kilos (5 lbs)
- White-footed saki with a weight of 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs)
- Ground cuscus with a weight of 2.6 kilos (5.73 lbs)
- Hoary marmot with a weight of 2.25 kilos (4.96 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Aye-aye
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Aye-aye:
- Smith’s red rock hare with a size of 43.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Sable with a size of 45.1 cm (1′ 6″)
- Desert cottontail with a size of 32.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Rio Tapajós saki with a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a size of 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Common spotted cuscus with a size of 45.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- Cozumel raccoon with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Meller’s mongoose with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Mongoose lemur with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Aye-aye
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Aye-aye:
- Delicate mouse
- Bornean orangutan
- Highland brush mouse
- Tamaraw
- Blyth’s vole
- Big-eared woolly bat
- Mediterranean horseshoe bat
- Ribbon seal
- Roosevelt’s muntjac
- Gerenuk
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Aye-aye
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Aye-aye:
- Guatemalan black howler with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroo with an average maximal age of 21 years
- Galápagos fur seal with an average maximal age of 22 years
- African brush-tailed porcupine with an average maximal age of 22.83 years
- American badger with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Dusky leaf monkey with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Indian hog deer with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Large Indian civet with an average maximal age of 20 years
- Malayan porcupine with an average maximal age of 27.25 years
- Addax with an average maximal age of 25.67 years