It is hard to guess what a Biak glider weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Biak glider (Petaurus biacensis) on average weights 90 grams (0.2 lbs).
The Biak glider is from the family Petauridae (genus: Petaurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.5 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Biak gliders 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 Biak glider (Petaurus biacensis) is a species of marsupial in the family Petauridae. It is endemic to the Schouten Islands in the western region of Papua Province, Indonesia. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of Petaurus breviceps (sugar glider).
Animals of the same family as a Biak glider
We found other animals of the Petauridae family:
- Tate’s triok with a weight of 252 grams
- Striped possum with a weight of 413 grams
- Long-fingered triok with a weight of 370 grams
- Great-tailed triok with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Leadbeater’s possum with a weight of 137 grams
- Northern glider with a weight of 278 grams
- Mahogany glider with a weight of 361 grams
- Sugar glider with a weight of 120 grams
- Squirrel glider with a weight of 230 grams
- Yellow-bellied glider with a weight of 568 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Biak glider
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Petaurus biacensis:
- Sloggett’s vlei rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Greater spear-nosed bat bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Oecomys rex bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Long-eared chipmunk bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s thicket rat bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Spotted ground squirrel bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Central rock rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Diminutive woodrat bringing 80 grams to the scale
- Northern pocket gopher bringing 105 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Biak glider
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Biak glider:
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Central Texas pocket gopher with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Web-footed tenrec with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sado mole with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Highland brush mouse with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Japanese water shrew with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Biak glider
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Biak glider: