It is hard to guess what a Long-nosed echymipera weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-nosed echymipera (Echymipera rufescens) on average weights 1.05 kg (2.32 lbs).
The Long-nosed echymipera is from the family Peroryctidae (genus: Echymipera). They can live for up to 2.83 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 45.3 cm (1′ 6″). Usually, Long-nosed echymiperas 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 long-nosed echymipera (Echymipera rufescens), or long-nosed spiny bandicoot, is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is found in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Animals of the same family as a Long-nosed echymipera
We found other animals of the Peroryctidae family:
- Menzies’ echymipera bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Papuan bandicoot with a weight of 158 grams
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Raffray’s bandicoot with a weight of 905 grams
- David’s echymipera with a weight of 817 grams
- Common echymipera with a weight of 825 grams
- Clara’s echymipera bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Striped bandicoot with a weight of 542 grams
- Giant bandicoot bringing 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Long-nosed echymipera
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Echymipera rufescens:
- Azara’s night monkey bringing 929 grams to the scale
- Coppery titi with a weight of 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs)
- Lesser grison with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Western quoll with a weight of 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs)
- Chinese ferret-badger bringing 939 grams to the scale
- Tailless tenrec bringing 894 grams to the scale
- Hershkovitz’s titi bringing 992 grams to the scale
- Eastern quoll with a weight of 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs)
- Banded mongoose with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
- Rio Beni titi bringing 992 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-nosed echymipera
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-nosed echymipera:
- Kloss’s gibbon with a size of 51.2 cm (1′ 9″)
- Ruddy mongoose with a size of 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Palawan stink badger with a size of 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Rio Tapajós saki with a size of 39.9 cm (1′ 4″)
- Woolly hare with a size of 46.5 cm (1′ 7″)
- White-cheeked spider monkey with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Bengal fox with a size of 52.3 cm (1′ 9″)
- Allen’s swamp monkey with a size of 45.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Bat-eared fox with a size of 53.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- Ground pangolin with a size of 48.9 cm (1′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Long-nosed echymipera
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Long-nosed echymipera:
- North African elephant shrew
- Giant otter
- Collared tuco-tuco
- Southern African spiny mouse
- Southern mountain cavy
- European hare
- Golden-backed tree-rat
- Southern pygmy mouse
- Striped polecat
- Blanford’s rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Long-nosed echymipera
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Long-nosed echymipera:
- Highland streaked tenrec with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Coast mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Talas tuco-tuco with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Japanese mountain mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Raffray’s bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- White-footed dunnart with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Dibbler with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with an average maximal age of 2.67 years