It is hard to guess what a Menzies’ echymipera weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Menzies’ echymipera (Echymipera echinista) on average weights 1.2 kg (2.65 lbs).
The Menzies’ echymipera is from the family Peroryctidae (genus: Echymipera). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 34.9 cm (1′ 2″).
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.
Menzies’ echymipera (Echymipera echinista), or Menzies’ spiny bandicoot or Fly River bandicoot, is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Menzies’ echymipera
We found other animals of the Peroryctidae family:
- Common echymipera with a weight of 825 grams
- Clara’s echymipera bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Long-nosed echymipera bringing 1.05 kilos (2.31 lbs) to the scale
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- David’s echymipera with a weight of 817 grams
- Raffray’s bandicoot with a weight of 905 grams
- Papuan bandicoot with a weight of 158 grams
- 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 Menzies’ echymipera
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Echymipera echinista:
- Ashy black titi bringing 992 grams to the scale
- Llanos long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 1.15 kilos (2.54 lbs)
- Short-tailed mongoose with a weight of 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs)
- Great flying fox with a weight of 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs)
- Grandidier’s mongoose with a weight of 1.4 kilos (3.09 lbs)
- White-tailed prairie dog bringing 964 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed potoroo with a weight of 1.07 kilos (2.36 lbs)
- Angolan talapoin with a weight of 1.25 kilos (2.76 lbs)
- Muskrat bringing 992 grams to the scale
- Spotted giant flying squirrel with a weight of 1.04 kilos (2.29 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Menzies’ echymipera
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Menzies’ echymipera:
- Black giant squirrel with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Bahamian hutia with a size of 39.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Forest giant squirrel with a size of 29.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Pichi with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Indonesian mountain weasel with a size of 30.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Short-beaked echidna with a size of 37.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Little Swan Island hutia with a size of 33.7 cm (1′ 2″)
- Mongoose lemur with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Banded mongoose with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Central African oyan with a size of 37.9 cm (1′ 3″)