It is hard to guess what a Golden bamboo lemur weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus) on average weights 1.57 kg (3.45 lbs).
The Golden bamboo lemur is from the family Lemuridae (genus: Hapalemur). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30.5 cm (1′ 1″). Usually, Golden bamboo lemurs have 1 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 golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus), bokombolomena or varibolomena in Malagasy, is a medium-sized bamboo lemur endemic to south-eastern Madagascar.
Animals of the same family as a Golden bamboo lemur
We found other animals of the Lemuridae family:
- Mongoose lemur bringing 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs) to the scale
- Greater bamboo lemur bringing 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs) to the scale
- Ring-tailed lemur bringing 2.63 kilos (5.8 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with a weight of 936 grams
- Red-bellied lemur bringing 2.03 kilos (4.48 lbs) to the scale
- Crowned lemur bringing 1.7 kilos (3.75 lbs) to the scale
- Black lemur bringing 2.48 kilos (5.47 lbs) to the scale
- Common brown lemur bringing 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs) to the scale
- Red ruffed lemur bringing 3.87 kilos (8.53 lbs) to the scale
- Greater bamboo lemur bringing 2.03 kilos (4.48 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Golden bamboo lemur
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Hapalemur aureus:
- Brazilian three-banded armadillo with a weight of 1.49 kilos (3.28 lbs)
- Rock-haunting ringtail possum with a weight of 1.88 kilos (4.14 lbs)
- De Vis’s woolly rat with a weight of 1.66 kilos (3.66 lbs)
- Common genet with a weight of 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs)
- Abyssinian genet with a weight of 1.41 kilos (3.11 lbs)
- Indian giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.68 kilos (3.7 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a weight of 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs)
- Ruddy mongoose with a weight of 1.7 kilos (3.75 lbs)
- Banded palm civet with a weight of 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs)
- Red and white giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Golden bamboo lemur
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Golden bamboo lemur:
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with a size of 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Livingstone’s fruit bat with a size of 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Siberian weasel with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Western quoll with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Amazon bamboo rat with a size of 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)
- Yellow mongoose with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Conover’s tuco-tuco with a size of 25.8 cm (0′ 11″)
- Central American squirrel monkey with a size of 28.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a size of 34 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Golden bamboo lemur
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Golden bamboo lemur: