It is hard to guess what a Hairy-eared dwarf lemur weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Hairy-eared dwarf lemur (Allocebus trichotis) on average weights 78 grams (0.17 lbs).
The Hairy-eared dwarf lemur is from the family Cheirogaleidae (genus: Allocebus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.3 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Hairy-eared dwarf lemurs can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 hairy-eared dwarf lemur (Allocebus trichotis), or hairy-eared mouse lemur, is one of the most scarcely known lemurs. A. trichotis is a nocturnal lemur that is endemic to Madagascar. It was originally named by Dr. Albert Günther in 1875 as Cheirogaleus trichotis as part of the Cheirogaleidae family, or the dwarf lemurs. However, in 1967 Petter-Rousseaux and Petter reassigned the lemur to its own genus and is the now only member of the genus Allocebus. The hairy-eared dwarf lemur was thought to be extinct until its rediscovery in 1989 in a northeastern primary lowland rainforest. The population of these mammals is shown to be severely decreasing and largely fragmented throughout Northern and Eastern Madagascar rainforests; most likely due to hunting, trapping, slash-and-burn agriculture as well as habitat fragmentation.
Animals of the same family as a Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
We found other animals of the Cheirogaleidae family:
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with a weight of 326 grams
- Pygmy mouse lemur with a weight of 31 grams
- Sambirano mouse lemur with a weight of 49 grams
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with a weight of 409 grams
- Golden-brown mouse lemur with a weight of 58 grams
- Northern rufous mouse lemur with a weight of 68 grams
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with a weight of 197 grams
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur with a weight of 33 grams
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur with a weight of 70 grams
- Greater dwarf lemur with a weight of 447 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Allocebus trichotis:
- Oecomys rex bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Oecomys phaeotis bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Malayan mountain spiny rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- White-tailed rat bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Petter’s tufted-tailed rat bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Bare-backed rousette bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Oecomys cleberi bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Gansu pika bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Small Japanese mole bringing 64 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Hairy-eared dwarf lemur:
- Long-nosed dasyure with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern water rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sonoma chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Maritime striped squirrel with a size of 13.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Western heather vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Commerson’s roundleaf bat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican deer mouse with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Broad-footed mole with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Hairy-eared dwarf lemur: