It is hard to guess what a Microcebus coquereli weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Microcebus coquereli (Microcebus coquereli) on average weights 328 grams (0.72 lbs).
The Microcebus coquereli is from the family Cheirogaleidae (genus: Microcebus). It is usually born with about 12 grams (0.03 lbs). They can live for up to 15.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 23.1 cm (0′ 10″). Usually, Microcebus coquerelis 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.
Animals of the same family as a Microcebus coquereli
We found other animals of the Cheirogaleidae family:
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur with a weight of 33 grams
- Reddish-gray mouse lemur with a weight of 70 grams
- Northern rufous mouse lemur with a weight of 68 grams
- Masoala fork-marked lemur with a weight of 409 grams
- Gray mouse lemur with a weight of 68 grams
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur with a weight of 326 grams
- Pygmy mouse lemur with a weight of 31 grams
- Greater dwarf lemur with a weight of 447 grams
- Golden-brown mouse lemur with a weight of 58 grams
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur with a weight of 197 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Microcebus coquereli
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Microcebus coquereli:
- Tropical pocket gopher bringing 350 grams to the scale
- Admiralty flying fox bringing 305 grams to the scale
- Horse-tailed squirrel bringing 358 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s squirrel bringing 283 grams to the scale
- Long-fingered triok bringing 370 grams to the scale
- Tome’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Zanj sun squirrel bringing 347 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher bringing 266 grams to the scale
- White-winged flying fox bringing 343 grams to the scale
- Ornate flying fox bringing 335 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Microcebus coquereli
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Microcebus coquereli:
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel with a size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Greater dwarf lemur with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Black-striped squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gray four-eyed opossum with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Oncilla with a size of 25 cm (0′ 10″)
- Allen’s squirrel with a size of 23.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Unstriped ground squirrel with a size of 22.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Brush-tailed rabbit rat with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Microcebus coquereli
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Microcebus coquereli:
- Aardvark
- Venezuelan red howler
- White-tailed deer
- Sea otter
- Bunyoro rabbit
- Antilopine kangaroo
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur
- Taiwan vole
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Microcebus coquereli
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Microcebus coquereli:
- Snow leopard with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Nyala with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Senegal bushbaby with an average maximal age of 17 years
- Golden-backed uakari with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Raccoon dog with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Indian muntjac with an average maximal age of 17.58 years
- Hirola with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Sharpe’s grysbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Dama gazelle with an average maximal age of 17.25 years