It is hard to guess what a Mountain treeshrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Mountain treeshrew (Tupaia montana) on average weights 168 grams (0.37 lbs).
The Mountain treeshrew is from the family Tupaiidae (genus: Tupaia). It is usually born with about 11 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.5 cm (0′ 8″). Usually, Mountain treeshrews have 2 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 treeshrew (Tupaia montana) is a treeshrew species within the Tupaiidae.It is endemic to Borneo and inhabits montane forests in Sarawak and Sabah.The first specimen was described by Oldfield Thomas and was part of a zoological collection from northern Borneo obtained by the British Museum of Natural History.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain treeshrew
We found other animals of the Tupaiidae family:
- Palawan treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Mindanao treeshrew with a weight of 301 grams
- Large treeshrew with a weight of 182 grams
- Northern treeshrew with a weight of 200 grams
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew with a weight of 50 grams
- Striped treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Long-footed treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Horsfield’s treeshrew with 2 babies per litter
- Pygmy treeshrew with a weight of 70 grams
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew with a weight of 60 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain treeshrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tupaia montana:
- Haig’s tuco-tuco bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Speke’s pectinator bringing 169 grams to the scale
- Four-toed elephant shrew bringing 201 grams to the scale
- Annandale’s rat bringing 197 grams to the scale
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Ribboned rope squirrel bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Peters’s climbing rat bringing 182 grams to the scale
- Sanborn’s squirrel bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Sooretamys bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Ferreira’s spiny tree-rat bringing 175 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Mountain treeshrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mountain treeshrew:
- Red squirrel with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Guadalcanal rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Himalayan pika with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Perote ground squirrel with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smith’s bush squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel with a size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ruddy treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mountain treeshrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Mountain treeshrew: