It is hard to guess what a Common echymipera weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common echymipera (Echymipera kalubu) on average weights 825 grams (1.82 lbs).
The Common echymipera is from the family Peroryctidae (genus: Echymipera). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 27 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Common 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.
The common echymipera (Echymipera kalubu), or common spiny bandicoot, is a bandicoot. It is long-snouted even by bandicoot standards. The upper parts are a coarse reddish brown, flecked with spiny buff and black hairs. The tail is short and almost hairless. Length varies between 300 and 400 mm, with the tail accounting for an additional 80 to 100 mm; weight is from 600 to 2000 g.
Animals of the same family as a Common echymipera
We found other animals of the Peroryctidae family:
- Giant bandicoot bringing 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs) to the scale
- Long-nosed echymipera bringing 1.05 kilos (2.31 lbs) to the scale
- Papuan bandicoot with a weight of 158 grams
- Clara’s echymipera bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Menzies’ echymipera bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Striped bandicoot with a weight of 542 grams
- Raffray’s bandicoot with a weight of 905 grams
- David’s echymipera with a weight of 817 grams
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same weight as a Common echymipera
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Echymipera kalubu:
- Grey-headed flying fox bringing 702 grams to the scale
- Rock squirrel bringing 715 grams to the scale
- Bolivian bamboo rat bringing 729 grams to the scale
- Red acouchi bringing 949 grams to the scale
- Desert cottontail bringing 882 grams to the scale
- Ring-tailed vontsira bringing 815 grams to the scale
- Brown-tailed mongoose bringing 711 grams to the scale
- Western white-eared giant rat bringing 932 grams to the scale
- Hispaniolan solenodon bringing 893 grams to the scale
- Black-footed ferret bringing 907 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Common echymipera
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common echymipera:
- Saharan striped polecat with a size of 24.2 cm (0′ 10″)
- Javan mongoose with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Pygmy rabbit with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Giant white-tailed rat with a size of 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Great flying fox with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Epixerus with a size of 28.8 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-tailed prairie dog with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- White-faced spiny tree-rat with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Grey-headed flying fox with a size of 27.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black giant squirrel with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Common echymipera
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Common echymipera: