It is hard to guess what a Daurian pika weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Daurian pika (Ochotona dauurica) on average weights 131 grams (0.29 lbs).
The Daurian pika is from the family Ochotonidae (genus: Ochotona). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18 cm (0′ 8″). On average, Daurian pikas can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 Daurian pika (Ochotona dauurica) is a small relative of rabbits and hares in the order Lagomorpha. It is well known for its “barking” alarm call, and for its peculiar habit of making hay to help survive the winter. There are 4 recognized subspecies, Ochotona dauurica annectens, O.d. bedfordi, O.d. dauurica, and O.d. mursavi. Daurian pikas, like other lagomorphs, are characterized by a secondary set of incisor teeth. They are sexually monomorphic, with thick reddish coats. Pikas have no external tail, and their ears are large and rounded. The auditory bullae, a feature of the skull of daurian pikas are small in comparison to many other pikas. This is thought to be related to their fairly low altitude habitat preference. They are considered keystone species within their habitat.
Animals of the same family as a Daurian pika
We found other animals of the Ochotonidae family:
- Chinese red pika with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Koslov’s pika with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Afghan pika with a weight of 250 grams
- Moupin pika with a weight of 35 grams
- American pika with a weight of 158 grams
- Pallas’s pika with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Alpine pika with a weight of 150 grams
- Tsing-ling pika with a weight of 105 grams
- Nubra pika with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Steppe pika with a weight of 143 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Daurian pika
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ochotona dauurica:
- Tuft-tailed spiny tree-rat bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Blick’s grass rat bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- Giant kangaroo rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew bringing 124 grams to the scale
- Buller’s pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Chilean rock rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Dian’s tarsier bringing 111 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Daurian pika
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Daurian pika:
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Small sun squirrel with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Greater fairy armadillo with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Desert woodrat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Giant kangaroo rat with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy marmoset with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Egyptian fruit bat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Daurian pika
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Daurian pika: