It is hard to guess what a Moupin pika weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Moupin pika (Ochotona thibetana) on average weights 35 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Moupin pika is from the family Ochotonidae (genus: Ochotona). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.2 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Moupin pikas 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 Moupin pika (Ochotona thibetana), also known as Ribetischer Pika, Moupin-Pika, Pika del Tibet, and Manipuri pika, is a species of mammal in the pika family, Ochotonidae. It has many subspecies, some of which may be distinct species. Its summer pelage is dark russet-brown with some light spots on the dorsal side, and ochraceous buff tinged on the belly. In winter it is lighter, with buff to dull brown dorsal pelage. A generalist herbivore, it is found in the mountains of the eastern Tibetan Plateau in China (Gansu, southern Qinghai, Yunnan, and Sichuan), Bhutan, India (Sikkim), and northern Myanmar. Both the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Endangered Species and the Red List of China’s Vertebrates classify it as a species of least concern; although one subspecies may be endangered.
Animals of the same family as a Moupin pika
We found other animals of the Ochotonidae family:
- Gaoligong pika with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pallas’s pika with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- American pika with a weight of 158 grams
- Large-eared pika with a weight of 205 grams
- Ladak pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Afghan pika with a weight of 250 grams
- Koslov’s pika with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Turkestan red pika with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Gansu pika with a weight of 69 grams
- Royle’s pika with a weight of 260 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Moupin pika
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ochotona thibetana:
- Black-tailed dasyure bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied caenolestid bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Southern vole bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Japanese grass vole bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Dalton’s mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Mount Apo forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Spotted bolo mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Moupin pika
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Moupin pika:
- Pygmy fruit-eating bat with a size of 5.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Dwarf shrew with a size of 5.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Natal multimammate mouse with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater mouse-tailed bat with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Kuhl’s pipistrelle with a size of 4.5 cm (0′ 2″)
- Sundevall’s roundleaf bat with a size of 5.4 cm (0′ 3″)
- Ornate shrew with a size of 4.9 cm (0′ 2″)
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat with a size of 6 cm (0′ 3″)
- Oligoryzomys nigripes with a size of 6.1 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southeastern shrew with a size of 5.1 cm (0′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Moupin pika
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Moupin pika: