It is hard to guess what a David’s echymipera weights. But we have the answer:
An adult David’s echymipera (Echymipera davidi) on average weights 817 grams (1.8 lbs).
The David’s echymipera is from the family Peroryctidae (genus: Echymipera). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 37.6 cm (1′ 3″).
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.
David’s echymipera (Echymipera davidi), or David’s spiny bandicoot, is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is found on the island of Kiriwina, in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea, and may be present on other nearby islands also.
Animals of the same family as a David’s echymipera
We found other animals of the Peroryctidae family:
- Menzies’ echymipera bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Common echymipera with a weight of 825 grams
- Striped bandicoot with a weight of 542 grams
- Clara’s echymipera bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Raffray’s bandicoot with a weight of 905 grams
- Long-nosed echymipera bringing 1.05 kilos (2.31 lbs) to the scale
- Giant bandicoot bringing 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs) to the scale
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Papuan bandicoot with a weight of 158 grams
Animals with the same weight as a David’s echymipera
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Echymipera davidi:
- Red-bellied titi bringing 962 grams to the scale
- Stump-tailed porcupine bringing 832 grams to the scale
- American mink bringing 904 grams to the scale
- Black-footed tree-rat bringing 716 grams to the scale
- Common ringtail possum bringing 895 grams to the scale
- New England cottontail bringing 814 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum bringing 765 grams to the scale
- Black squirrel monkey bringing 784 grams to the scale
- Eastern white-eared giant rat bringing 867 grams to the scale
- Central American squirrel monkey bringing 714 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a David’s echymipera
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as David’s echymipera:
- Black capuchin with a size of 43.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- Black dwarf porcupine with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Sunda flying lemur with a size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Raffray’s bandicoot with a size of 34.6 cm (1′ 2″)
- Golden bandicoot with a size of 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Cream-coloured giant squirrel with a size of 34.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- De Vis’s woolly rat with a size of 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- Short-tailed mongoose with a size of 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Malagasy giant rat with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black-footed cat with a size of 40.1 cm (1′ 4″)