It is hard to guess what a Common ringtail possum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus) on average weights 895 grams (1.97 lbs).
The Common ringtail possum is from the family Pseudocheiridae (genus: Pseudocheirus). They can live for up to 8 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.9 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Common ringtail possums can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus, Greek for “false hand” and Latin for “pilgrim” or “alien”) is an Australian marsupial. It lives in a variety of habitats and eats a variety of leaves of both native and introduced plants, as well as flowers, fruits and sap. This possum also consumes a special type of faeces that is produced during the daytime when it is resting in a nest. This behaviour is called caecotrophy and is similar to that seen in rabbits.
Animals of the same family as a Common ringtail possum
We found other animals of the Pseudocheiridae family:
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum bringing 1.88 kilos (4.14 lbs) to the scale
- Greater glider bringing 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) to the scale
- Plush-coated ringtail possum bringing 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) to the scale
- Pygmy ringtail possum with a weight of 151 grams
- Lowland ringtail possum with a weight of 300 grams
- Green ringtail possum bringing 1.15 kilos (2.54 lbs) to the scale
- Weyland ringtail possum with a weight of 458 grams
- Pygmy ringtail possum with a weight of 152 grams
- Vogelkop ringtail possum with a weight of 255 grams
- Herbert River ringtail possum bringing 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Common ringtail possum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudocheirus peregrinus:
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine bringing 751 grams to the scale
- Chestnut-bellied titi bringing 992 grams to the scale
- Azara’s night monkey bringing 929 grams to the scale
- Guinea pig bringing 728 grams to the scale
- Bengal mongoose bringing 741 grams to the scale
- Black-headed night monkey with a weight of 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs)
- Striped polecat bringing 812 grams to the scale
- Ring-tailed vontsira bringing 815 grams to the scale
- Indian flying fox bringing 822 grams to the scale
- Tapeti bringing 988 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Common ringtail possum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Common ringtail possum:
- Big-eared woolly bat
- Tickell’s bat
- Hoolock gibbon
- Nyala
- Six-banded armadillo
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
- Rio Mayo titi
- Soemmerring’s gazelle
- Ruwenzori otter shrew
- Long-tongued nectar bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Common ringtail possum
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Common ringtail possum:
- Kowari with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Nathusius’s pipistrelle with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Crowned lemur with an average maximal age of 9.17 years
- Eastern quoll with an average maximal age of 6.75 years
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with an average maximal age of 6.75 years
- Black dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Northern tamandua with an average maximal age of 9.5 years
- Common degu with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- Mongolian gazelle with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Yuma myotis with an average maximal age of 8.75 years