It is hard to guess what a Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur (Mirza coquereli) on average weights 326 grams (0.72 lbs).
The Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur is from the family Cheirogaleidae (genus: Mirza). It is usually born with about 12 grams (0.03 lbs). They can live for up to 15.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.1 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, Coquerel’s giant mouse lemurs 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.
Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur (Mirza coquereli), also known as Coquerel’s dwarf lemur or the southern giant mouse lemur, is a small nocturnal lemur endemic to Madagascar. This species can be found in parts of the Madagascar dry deciduous forests.
Animals of the same family as a Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur
We found other animals of the Cheirogaleidae family:
- Gray mouse lemur with a weight of 68 grams
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur with a weight of 70 grams
- Pygmy mouse lemur with a weight of 31 grams
- Brown mouse lemur with a weight of 48 grams
- Greater dwarf lemur with a weight of 447 grams
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with a weight of 197 grams
- Northern rufous mouse lemur with a weight of 68 grams
- Golden-brown mouse lemur with a weight of 58 grams
- Microcebus coquereli with a weight of 328 grams
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with a weight of 409 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Mirza coquereli:
- Southern mountain cavy bringing 261 grams to the scale
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat bringing 291 grams to the scale
- Japen rat bringing 380 grams to the scale
- Temotu flying fox bringing 274 grams to the scale
- Borneo black-banded squirrel bringing 324 grams to the scale
- Wyoming ground squirrel bringing 325 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s squirrel bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Camas pocket gopher bringing 360 grams to the scale
- Golden-mantled tamarin bringing 385 grams to the scale
- Southern African hedgehog bringing 337 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur:
- Jentink’s squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Bougainville monkey-faced bat with a size of 26.2 cm (0′ 11″)
- Russian desman with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lowland ringtail possum with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-bellied Luzon tree rat with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Busuanga squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Franklin’s ground squirrel with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur:
- Long-footed treeshrew
- Allen’s swamp monkey
- Common wallaroo
- Silky anteater
- Crab-eating macaque
- Koala
- Woodlark cuscus
- Goeldi’s marmoset
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox
- Rüppell’s pipistrelle
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur:
- Brown hyena with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Asian golden cat with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Speke’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Red forest duiker with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Microcebus coquereli with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Cape ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Impala with an average maximal age of 17.75 years
- Common marmoset with an average maximal age of 16.75 years
- Celebes crested macaque with an average maximal age of 18 years