It is hard to guess what a Dusky bushbaby weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dusky bushbaby (Galago matschiei) on average weights 213 grams (0.47 lbs).
The Dusky bushbaby is from the family Galagonidae (genus: Galago). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16 cm (0′ 7″).
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 dusky bushbaby (Galago matschiei) is a species of primate in the family Galagidae. It is also known as Matschie’s galago, in honour of the German zoologist Paul Matschie, curator of mammals at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. Native to tropical Central Africa, it is found in forests in Burundi, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The species is small with a long tail, and has an arboreal, nocturnal and omnivorous lifestyle.
Animals of the same family as a Dusky bushbaby
We found other animals of the Galagonidae family:
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with a weight of 268 grams
- Somali bushbaby with a weight of 250 grams
- Northern needle-clawed bushbaby with a weight of 278 grams
- Brown greater galago bringing 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs) to the scale
- Northern greater galago with a weight of 812 grams
- Zanzibar bushbaby with a weight of 148 grams
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a weight of 67 grams
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with a weight of 296 grams
- Mohol bushbaby with a weight of 193 grams
- Senegal bushbaby with a weight of 216 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dusky bushbaby
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Galago matschiei:
- Long-haired rat bringing 221 grams to the scale
- Plantain squirrel bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Four-toed elephant shrew bringing 201 grams to the scale
- Red slender loris bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Southwestern water vole bringing 220 grams to the scale
- Cape York rat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Arizona cotton rat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Tamaulipan woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Dusky bushbaby
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Dusky bushbaby:
- Townsend’s ground squirrel with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- New Caledonia flying fox with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gilliard’s flying fox with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tiny tuco-tuco with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Small sun squirrel with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sikkim rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)