It is hard to guess what a Eastern common cuscus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern common cuscus (Phalanger intercastellanus) on average weights 1.75 kg (3.85 lbs).
The Eastern common cuscus is from the family Phalangeridae (genus: Phalanger). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 38.4 cm (1′ 4″). Usually, Eastern common cuscuss have 2 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 eastern common cuscus (Phalanger intercastellanus) is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae found in eastern Papua New Guinea. Until recently, it was considered conspecific with P. mimicus, and before that also with P. orientalis.The eastern common cuscus was introduced by humans into the Aru Islands and parts of northern Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern common cuscus
We found other animals of the Phalangeridae family:
- Short-eared possum bringing 3.13 kilos (6.9 lbs) to the scale
- Stein’s cuscus bringing 1.85 kilos (4.08 lbs) to the scale
- Northern brushtail possum bringing 1.55 kilos (3.42 lbs) to the scale
- Sulawesi bear cuscus bringing 10 kilos (22.05 lbs) to the scale
- Woodlark cuscus bringing 1.63 kilos (3.59 lbs) to the scale
- Ornate cuscus bringing 1.79 kilos (3.95 lbs) to the scale
- Black-spotted cuscus bringing 6 kilos (13.23 lbs) to the scale
- Ground cuscus bringing 2.6 kilos (5.73 lbs) to the scale
- Telefomin cuscus bringing 1.44 kilos (3.17 lbs) to the scale
- Admiralty Island cuscus with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern common cuscus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phalanger intercastellanus:
- Manchurian hare with a weight of 1.84 kilos (4.06 lbs)
- Southern long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- Nilgiri marten with a weight of 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a weight of 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs)
- Beech marten with a weight of 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs)
- Black giant squirrel with a weight of 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs)
- Yunnan hare with a weight of 2.02 kilos (4.45 lbs)
- Yarkand hare with a weight of 1.47 kilos (3.24 lbs)
- Greater bamboo lemur with a weight of 2.03 kilos (4.48 lbs)
- Rufous hare-wallaby with a weight of 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Eastern common cuscus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern common cuscus:
- Japanese marten with a size of 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Cape hare with a size of 42.6 cm (1′ 5″)
- Ring-tailed vontsira with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Long-nosed echymipera with a size of 45.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Malagasy civet with a size of 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
- Smith’s red rock hare with a size of 43.8 cm (1′ 6″)
- Grandidier’s mongoose with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a size of 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Weyland ringtail possum with a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Coppery titi with a size of 35.5 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern common cuscus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Eastern common cuscus: