It is hard to guess what a Horsfield’s tarsier weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Horsfield’s tarsier (Tarsius bancanus) on average weights 114 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Horsfield’s tarsier is from the family Tarsiidae (genus: Tarsius). It is usually born with about 24 grams (0.05 lbs). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.6 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Horsfield’s tarsiers 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.
Horsfield’s tarsier (Cephalopachus bancanus), also known as the western tarsier, is the only species of tarsier in the genus Cephalopachus. It occurs on Borneo, Sumatra and nearby islands and is, like other members of the group, entirely nocturnal.
Animals of the same family as a Horsfield’s tarsier
We found other animals of the Tarsiidae family:
- Spectral tarsier with a weight of 168 grams
- Pygmy tarsier with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Philippine tarsier with a weight of 116 grams
- Spectral tarsier with a weight of 166 grams
- Sangihe tarsier with a weight of 165 grams
- Dian’s tarsier with a weight of 110 grams
- Peleng tarsier with a weight of 165 grams
- Dian’s tarsier with a weight of 111 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Horsfield’s tarsier
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tarsius bancanus:
- Kemp’s gerbil bringing 101 grams to the scale
- Chilean rock rat bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Greater fairy armadillo bringing 129 grams to the scale
- European water vole bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Guinean gerbil bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Rio de Janeiro arboreal rat bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Persian jird bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Dusky spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed gerbil bringing 123 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Horsfield’s tarsier
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Horsfield’s tarsier:
- Julia Creek dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rock vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sandhill dunnart with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-toothed brush mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern chestnut mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mongolian gerbil with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lodgepole chipmunk with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed vole with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Horsfield’s tarsier
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Horsfield’s tarsier:
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat
- Guinea baboon
- Long-tongued nectar bat
- Northern ghost bat
- Rufous hare-wallaby
- Southwestern myotis
- Hippopotamus
- Natterer’s bat
- Black-capped squirrel monkey
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Horsfield’s tarsier
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Horsfield’s tarsier:
- Ground cuscus with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Red acouchi with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Long-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 11.25 years
- Water chevrotain with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Small Indian civet with an average maximal age of 10.5 years
- Seba’s short-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 12.33 years
- Mountain reedbuck with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
- Long-nosed potoroo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Harnessed bushbuck with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Silver-haired bat with an average maximal age of 12 years