It is hard to guess what a Mahogany glider weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mahogany glider (Petaurus gracilis) on average weights 361 grams (0.8 lbs).
The Mahogany glider is from the family Petauridae (genus: Petaurus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.2 cm (0′ 6″). Usually, Mahogany gliders 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 mahogany glider (Petaurus gracilis) is an endangered gliding possum native to a small region of coastal Queensland in Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Mahogany glider
We found other animals of the Petauridae family:
- Tate’s triok with a weight of 252 grams
- Sugar glider with a weight of 120 grams
- Squirrel glider with a weight of 230 grams
- Yellow-bellied glider with a weight of 568 grams
- Striped possum with a weight of 413 grams
- Great-tailed triok with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-fingered triok with a weight of 370 grams
- Northern glider with a weight of 278 grams
- Biak glider with a weight of 90 grams
- Leadbeater’s possum with a weight of 137 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mahogany glider
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Petaurus gracilis:
- Namaqua dune mole-rat bringing 389 grams to the scale
- Colburn’s tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Derby’s woolly opossum bringing 328 grams to the scale
- Cuvier’s spiny rat bringing 339 grams to the scale
- Emilia’s marmoset bringing 309 grams to the scale
- Samoa flying fox bringing 309 grams to the scale
- Pygmy spotted skunk bringing 365 grams to the scale
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Texas pocket gopher bringing 397 grams to the scale
- Geelvink Bay flying fox bringing 351 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Mahogany glider
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Mahogany glider: