It is hard to guess what a Common spotted cuscus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus) on average weights 4.06 kg (8.95 lbs).
The Common spotted cuscus is from the family Phalangeridae (genus: Spilocuscus). They can live for up to 11 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 45.8 cm (1′ 7″). Usually, Common spotted cuscuss have 1 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 spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus maculatus), also known as the white cuscus, is a cuscus, a marsupial that lives in the Cape York region of Australia, New Guinea, and nearby smaller islands.
Animals of the same family as a Common spotted cuscus
We found other animals of the Phalangeridae family:
- Silky cuscus bringing 2 kilos (4.41 lbs) to the scale
- Northern common cuscus bringing 2.33 kilos (5.14 lbs) to the scale
- Ground cuscus bringing 2.61 kilos (5.75 lbs) to the scale
- Black-spotted cuscus bringing 6 kilos (13.23 lbs) to the scale
- Mountain cuscus bringing 1.82 kilos (4.01 lbs) to the scale
- Telefomin cuscus bringing 1.44 kilos (3.17 lbs) to the scale
- Common brushtail possum bringing 2.69 kilos (5.93 lbs) to the scale
- Scaly-tailed possum bringing 1.81 kilos (3.99 lbs) to the scale
- Short-eared possum bringing 3.13 kilos (6.9 lbs) to the scale
- Rothschild’s cuscus bringing 1.37 kilos (3.02 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Common spotted cuscus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Spilocuscus maculatus:
- Southern tamandua with a weight of 4.73 kilos (10.43 lbs)
- Northern tamandua with a weight of 4.11 kilos (9.06 lbs)
- Günther’s dik-dik with a weight of 4.61 kilos (10.16 lbs)
- Masked palm civet with a weight of 4.3 kilos (9.48 lbs)
- Gray fox with a weight of 3.83 kilos (8.44 lbs)
- Spotted-necked otter with a weight of 4.18 kilos (9.22 lbs)
- Black agouti with a weight of 3.5 kilos (7.72 lbs)
- Owston’s palm civet with a weight of 3.27 kilos (7.21 lbs)
- Yellow-bellied marmot with a weight of 3.71 kilos (8.18 lbs)
- Asian small-clawed otter with a weight of 3.53 kilos (7.78 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Common spotted cuscus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Common spotted cuscus:
- Smith’s red rock hare with a size of 43.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Tehuantepec jackrabbit with a size of 54.9 cm (1′ 10″)
- Yellow-bellied marmot with a size of 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
- Asian palm civet with a size of 53.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Rock hyrax with a size of 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Menzbier’s marmot with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Cozumel raccoon with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Japanese hare with a size of 49.9 cm (1′ 8″)
- Central African oyan with a size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Chinese pangolin with a size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Common spotted cuscus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Common spotted cuscus:
- Harnessed bushbuck
- Rio Mayo titi
- Painted bat
- Verreaux’s sifaka
- Formosan rock macaque
- Dent’s mona monkey
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey
- Puna mouse
- Ground cuscus
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Common spotted cuscus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Common spotted cuscus:
- Muskrat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Red-necked pademelon with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Black-footed ferret with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Speke’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Dice’s cottontail with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Long-tailed porcupine with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Barbary ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Water deer with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Saiga antelope with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Ring-tailed vontsira with an average maximal age of 13.17 years