It is hard to guess what a Cameroon scaly-tail weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cameroon scaly-tail (Zenkerella insignis) on average weights 200 grams (0.44 lbs).
The Cameroon scaly-tail is from the family Anomaluridae (genus: Zenkerella). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.8 cm (0′ 4″).
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 Cameroon scaly-tail (Zenkerella insignis), also referred to as the Cameroon anomalure, flightless anomalure or flightless scaly-tail, is a rodent species endemic to West Central Africa. The scientific literature has never (or possibly only obscurely) reported observations of live individuals. The taxonomic classification of the species has been subject to recent revision.
Animals of the same family as a Cameroon scaly-tail
We found other animals of the Anomaluridae family:
- Pel’s flying squirrel bringing 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs) to the scale
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel with a weight of 250 grams
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel with a weight of 665 grams
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel with a weight of 100 grams
- Beecroft’s flying squirrel with a weight of 479 grams
- Long-eared flying mouse with a weight of 27 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cameroon scaly-tail
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Zenkerella insignis:
- Haig’s tuco-tuco bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Lesser mole-rat bringing 189 grams to the scale
- Middle East blind mole-rat bringing 180 grams to the scale
- Piute ground squirrel bringing 165 grams to the scale
- Mzab gundi bringing 194 grams to the scale
- Mountain treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat bringing 196 grams to the scale
- Mohave ground squirrel bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Salta tuco-tuco bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Bridges’s degu bringing 162 grams to the scale