It is hard to guess what a Clara’s echymipera weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Clara’s echymipera (Echymipera clara) on average weights 1.2 kg (2.65 lbs).
The Clara’s echymipera is from the family Peroryctidae (genus: Echymipera). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 34.1 cm (1′ 2″). Usually, Clara’s echymiperas have 2 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.
Clara’s echymipera (Echymipera clara), or Clara’s spiny bandicoot or white-lipped bandicoot, is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.It is hunted for human consumption in New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Clara’s echymipera
We found other animals of the Peroryctidae family:
- David’s echymipera with a weight of 817 grams
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Menzies’ echymipera bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Papuan bandicoot with a weight of 158 grams
- Long-nosed echymipera bringing 1.05 kilos (2.31 lbs) to the scale
- Raffray’s bandicoot with a weight of 905 grams
- Giant bandicoot bringing 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs) to the scale
- Common echymipera with a weight of 825 grams
- Striped bandicoot with a weight of 542 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Clara’s echymipera
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Echymipera clara:
- Spotted giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.04 kilos (2.29 lbs)
- Bristle-spined rat with a weight of 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs)
- Black jackrabbit with a weight of 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs)
- Western quoll with a weight of 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs)
- Red-bellied titi bringing 962 grams to the scale
- European polecat bringing 980 grams to the scale
- Rio Mayo titi bringing 992 grams to the scale
- Haussa genet with a weight of 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs)
- Banded mongoose with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
- Atlantic titi with a weight of 1.39 kilos (3.06 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Clara’s echymipera
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Clara’s echymipera:
- Long-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black-capped squirrel monkey with a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Crowned lemur with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black giant squirrel with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Dice’s cottontail with a size of 37.4 cm (1′ 3″)
- Mountain beaver with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Menzies’ echymipera with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Black-footed cat with a size of 40.1 cm (1′ 4″)
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey with a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Brown greater galago with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Clara’s echymipera
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Clara’s echymipera: