It is hard to guess what a Eastern lowland olingo weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Eastern lowland olingo (Bassaricyon beddardi) on average weights 1.24 kg (2.73 lbs).
The Eastern lowland olingo is from the family Procyonidae (genus: Bassaricyon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 4 cm (0′ 2″).
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 lowland olingo (Bassaricyon alleni) is a species of olingo from South America, where it is known from the lowlands east of the Andes in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Venezuela. It is the only olingo species found east of the Andes. The Latin species name honors Joel Asaph Allen, the American zoologist who first described the genus Bassaricyon.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern lowland olingo
We found other animals of the Procyonidae family:
- Raccoon bringing 6.37 kilos (14.04 lbs) to the scale
- Northern olingo bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Nasuella olivacea bringing 1.34 kilos (2.95 lbs) to the scale
- Northern olingo bringing 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs) to the scale
- White-nosed coati bringing 4.58 kilos (10.1 lbs) to the scale
- Kinkajou bringing 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs) to the scale
- Bahamian raccoon with a size of 46.2 cm (1′ 7″)
- Northern olingo bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Cacomistle with a weight of 906 grams
- South American coati bringing 3.78 kilos (8.33 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern lowland olingo
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Bassaricyon beddardi:
- Fennec fox with a weight of 1.32 kilos (2.91 lbs)
- Telefomin cuscus with a weight of 1.44 kilos (3.17 lbs)
- Greater grison with a weight of 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs)
- Hodgson’s giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.48 kilos (3.26 lbs)
- Northern olingo with a weight of 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs)
- Common opossum with a weight of 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with a weight of 1.16 kilos (2.56 lbs)
- Rio Beni titi bringing 992 grams to the scale
- European pine marten with a weight of 1.3 kilos (2.87 lbs)
- Spotted giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.04 kilos (2.29 lbs)