It is hard to guess what a Long-tailed porcupine weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-tailed porcupine (Trichys fasciculata) on average weights 1.75 kg (3.86 lbs).
The Long-tailed porcupine is from the family Hystricidae (genus: Trichys). They can live for up to 10.08 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 41.5 cm (1′ 5″).
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-tailed porcupine (Trichys fasciculata) is a species of rodent in the family Hystricidae. It is monotypic within the genus Trichys, and is found in Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Animals of the same family as a Long-tailed porcupine
We found other animals of the Hystricidae family:
- African brush-tailed porcupine bringing 2.88 kilos (6.35 lbs) to the scale
- Philippine porcupine bringing 3.55 kilos (7.83 lbs) to the scale
- Thick-spined porcupine bringing 4.59 kilos (10.12 lbs) to the scale
- Indian crested porcupine bringing 14.3 kilos (31.53 lbs) to the scale
- Crested porcupine bringing 13.4 kilos (29.54 lbs) to the scale
- Malayan porcupine bringing 8 kilos (17.64 lbs) to the scale
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine bringing 2 kilos (4.41 lbs) to the scale
- Cape porcupine bringing 14.92 kilos (32.89 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed porcupine
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Trichys fasciculata:
- Chacoan mara with a weight of 1.61 kilos (3.55 lbs)
- Golden bamboo lemur with a weight of 1.57 kilos (3.46 lbs)
- Crowned lemur with a weight of 1.7 kilos (3.75 lbs)
- Selous’s mongoose with a weight of 1.67 kilos (3.68 lbs)
- Yarkand hare with a weight of 1.47 kilos (3.24 lbs)
- Ornate cuscus with a weight of 1.79 kilos (3.95 lbs)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel with a weight of 1.43 kilos (3.15 lbs)
- Java mouse-deer with a weight of 1.88 kilos (4.14 lbs)
- Southern giant slender-tailed cloud rat with a weight of 1.84 kilos (4.06 lbs)
- Steppe polecat with a weight of 1.69 kilos (3.73 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Long-tailed porcupine
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-tailed porcupine:
- Snowshoe hare with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Cozumel raccoon with a size of 42.8 cm (1′ 5″)
- Geoffroy’s spider monkey with a size of 43.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Sable with a size of 45.1 cm (1′ 6″)
- Cacomistle with a size of 42.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Alpine woolly rat with a size of 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Black-footed cat with a size of 40.1 cm (1′ 4″)
- Golden palm civet with a size of 48.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- African brush-tailed porcupine with a size of 43.1 cm (1′ 5″)
- Bonnet macaque with a size of 47.5 cm (1′ 7″)
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Long-tailed porcupine
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Long-tailed porcupine:
- Red squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
- American mink with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Side-striped jackal with an average maximal age of 11.42 years
- Parti-coloured bat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Eastern cottontail with an average maximal age of 9 years
- Lesser long-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Javan mongoose with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Cape gray mongoose with an average maximal age of 8.67 years
- Bush dog with an average maximal age of 10.33 years
- Crowned lemur with an average maximal age of 9.17 years