It is hard to guess what a Masoala fork-marked lemur weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Masoala fork-marked lemur (Phaner furcifer) on average weights 409 grams (0.9 lbs).
The Masoala fork-marked lemur is from the family Cheirogaleidae (genus: Phaner). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26.1 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Masoala fork-marked lemurs 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 Masoala fork-marked lemur (Phaner furcifer), also known as the eastern fork-marked lemur or Masoala fork-crowned lemur, is a species of lemur found in the coastal forests of northeastern Madagascar. It is a small nocturnal animal with large eyes, greyish fur and a long tail.P. furcifer is a specialist feeder on the gum that exudes from insect holes on the surface of certain trees, but it supplements its gum diet with insect prey. This primate is monogamous and a single offspring is born in November or December. It is declining in numbers due to habitat destruction, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has assessed its conservation status as being “vulnerable”.
Animals of the same family as a Masoala fork-marked lemur
We found other animals of the Cheirogaleidae family:
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur with a weight of 33 grams
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with a weight of 326 grams
- Golden-brown mouse lemur with a weight of 58 grams
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with a weight of 197 grams
- Greater dwarf lemur with a weight of 447 grams
- Pygmy mouse lemur with a weight of 31 grams
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur with a weight of 70 grams
- Northern rufous mouse lemur with a weight of 68 grams
- Brown mouse lemur with a weight of 48 grams
- Microcebus coquereli with a weight of 328 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Masoala fork-marked lemur
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phaner furcifer:
- Long-fingered triok bringing 370 grams to the scale
- Tome’s spiny rat bringing 355 grams to the scale
- Red bush squirrel bringing 365 grams to the scale
- Wied’s marmoset bringing 375 grams to the scale
- Goya tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Black-mantled tamarin bringing 450 grams to the scale
- Namaqua dune mole-rat bringing 389 grams to the scale
- Volcano rabbit bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Social tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket gopher bringing 419 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Masoala fork-marked lemur
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Masoala fork-marked lemur:
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with a size of 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Weyland ringtail possum with a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Black-tailed prairie dog with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-capped squirrel monkey with a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Calabar angwantibo with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Giant naked-tailed rat with a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Muskrat with a size of 27.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Variegated squirrel with a size of 26.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Pallas’s squirrel with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Javan mongoose with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Masoala fork-marked lemur
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Masoala fork-marked lemur:
- Dusky pademelon
- Southern viscacha
- Roe deer
- Southern hairy-nosed wombat
- Baikal seal
- Common sheath-tailed bat
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Gray-bellied night monkey
- Charming thicket rat
- Mashona mole-rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Masoala fork-marked lemur
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Masoala fork-marked lemur:
- Common spotted cuscus with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Common dwarf mongoose with an average maximal age of 10.92 years
- Black-footed cat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Maned sloth with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Javan mongoose with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Quokka with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with an average maximal age of 10.5 years
- Boodie with an average maximal age of 10 years