It is hard to guess what a Mountain cuscus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mountain cuscus (Phalanger carmelitae) on average weights 1.82 kg (4.01 lbs).
The Mountain cuscus is from the family Phalangeridae (genus: Phalanger). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 40.7 cm (1′ 5″). Usually, Mountain cuscuss 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 mountain cuscus (Phalanger carmelitae) is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain cuscus
We found other animals of the Phalangeridae family:
- Ground cuscus bringing 2.61 kilos (5.75 lbs) to the scale
- Stein’s cuscus bringing 1.85 kilos (4.08 lbs) to the scale
- Northern brushtail possum bringing 1.55 kilos (3.42 lbs) to the scale
- Scaly-tailed possum bringing 1.81 kilos (3.99 lbs) to the scale
- Common spotted cuscus bringing 4.06 kilos (8.95 lbs) to the scale
- Ground cuscus bringing 2.6 kilos (5.73 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern common cuscus bringing 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs) to the scale
- Telefomin cuscus bringing 1.44 kilos (3.17 lbs) to the scale
- Ornate cuscus bringing 1.79 kilos (3.95 lbs) to the scale
- Common brushtail possum bringing 2.69 kilos (5.93 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain cuscus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phalanger carmelitae:
- Pel’s flying squirrel with a weight of 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs)
- Coppery ringtail possum with a weight of 1.77 kilos (3.9 lbs)
- Hainan hare with a weight of 1.52 kilos (3.35 lbs)
- De Vis’s woolly rat with a weight of 1.66 kilos (3.66 lbs)
- Southern long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 1.5 kilos (3.31 lbs)
- African savanna hare with a weight of 1.76 kilos (3.88 lbs)
- Crowned lemur with a weight of 1.7 kilos (3.75 lbs)
- Cape genet with a weight of 2.07 kilos (4.56 lbs)
- Sumatran striped rabbit with a weight of 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs)
- Aquatic genet with a weight of 1.65 kilos (3.64 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Mountain cuscus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mountain cuscus:
- Aye-aye with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Philippine flying lemur with a size of 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Stripe-necked mongoose with a size of 47.8 cm (1′ 7″)
- New England cottontail with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Liberian mongoose with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Ground cuscus with a size of 45.3 cm (1′ 6″)
- Blanford’s fox with a size of 42.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Chinese hare with a size of 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- Menzies’ echymipera with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Stein’s cuscus with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mountain cuscus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Mountain cuscus: