It is hard to guess what a Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew (Dendrogale melanura) on average weights 60 grams (0.13 lbs).
The Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew is from the family Tupaiidae (genus: Dendrogale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.5 cm (0′ 5″).
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 Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew (Dendrogale melanura) is a species of treeshrew in the family Tupaiidae. It is endemic to Borneo. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Animals of the same family as a Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew
We found other animals of the Tupaiidae family:
- Palawan treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Painted treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Pygmy treeshrew with a weight of 70 grams
- Madras treeshrew with a weight of 160 grams
- Northern treeshrew with a weight of 200 grams
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with a weight of 42 grams
- Large treeshrew with a weight of 182 grams
- Mindanao treeshrew with a weight of 301 grams
- Long-footed treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Common treeshrew with a weight of 132 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dendrogale melanura:
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Indian desert jird bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Highland brush mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Heath mouse bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Sumichrast’s vesper rat bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Mashona mole-rat bringing 65 grams to the scale
- Southern red-sided opossum bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Natal multimammate mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew:
- Townsend’s vole with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Shaw Mayer’s brush mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Beach vole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malagasy slit-faced bat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bunny rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mozambique thicket rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Luzon Cordillera forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut tree mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern short-tailed shrew with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)