It is hard to guess what a Northern common cuscus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern common cuscus (Phalanger orientalis) on average weights 2.33 kg (5.13 lbs).
The Northern common cuscus is from the family Phalangeridae (genus: Phalanger). They can live for up to 4 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 42.4 cm (1′ 5″). Usually, Northern common 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 northern common cuscus (Phalanger orientalis), also known as the grey cuscus, is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae native to northern New Guinea and adjacent smaller islands, but is now also found in the Bismarck Archipelago, southeast and central Moluccas, the Solomons, and Timor, where it is believed to have been introduced in prehistoric times from New Guinea. It was formerly considered conspecific with the allopatric P. intercastellanus and P. mimicus.It is hunted for human consumption in New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Northern common cuscus
We found other animals of the Phalangeridae family:
- Northern brushtail possum bringing 1.55 kilos (3.42 lbs) to the scale
- Ornate cuscus bringing 1.79 kilos (3.95 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern common cuscus bringing 1.75 kilos (3.86 lbs) to the scale
- Ground cuscus bringing 2.6 kilos (5.73 lbs) to the scale
- Black-spotted cuscus bringing 6 kilos (13.23 lbs) to the scale
- Common brushtail possum bringing 2.69 kilos (5.93 lbs) to the scale
- Scaly-tailed possum bringing 1.81 kilos (3.99 lbs) to the scale
- Sulawesi bear cuscus bringing 10 kilos (22.05 lbs) to the scale
- Short-eared possum bringing 3.13 kilos (6.9 lbs) to the scale
- Woodlark cuscus bringing 1.63 kilos (3.59 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Northern common cuscus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phalanger orientalis:
- Andean hairy armadillo with a weight of 2.14 kilos (4.72 lbs)
- Nilgiri marten with a weight of 2.04 kilos (4.5 lbs)
- Stripe-necked mongoose with a weight of 2.38 kilos (5.25 lbs)
- Ethiopian highland hare with a weight of 2.77 kilos (6.11 lbs)
- Ground cuscus with a weight of 2.61 kilos (5.75 lbs)
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with a weight of 2.42 kilos (5.34 lbs)
- Johnston’s genet with a weight of 2.23 kilos (4.92 lbs)
- Granada hare with a weight of 2.33 kilos (5.14 lbs)
- Palawan stink badger with a weight of 2.5 kilos (5.51 lbs)
- Black lemur with a weight of 2.48 kilos (5.47 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Northern common cuscus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern common cuscus:
- Rock hyrax with a size of 46.7 cm (1′ 7″)
- Snowshoe hare with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
- Black-tailed jackrabbit with a size of 48.4 cm (1′ 8″)
- Beech marten with a size of 46 cm (1′ 7″)
- Woodlark cuscus with a size of 37.2 cm (1′ 3″)
- Three-striped night monkey with a size of 35.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Clara’s echymipera with a size of 34.1 cm (1′ 2″)
- Crab-eating mongoose with a size of 50.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Bronze quoll with a size of 35.6 cm (1′ 3″)
- Malagasy civet with a size of 45.7 cm (1′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern common cuscus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Northern common cuscus:
- Long-tailed fruit bat
- Humpback whale
- Little free-tailed bat
- Tana River red colobus
- Hairy-legged vampire bat
- Tiny pipistrelle
- Wall-roosting mouse-eared bat
- Monk saki
- Anoa
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Northern common cuscus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Northern common cuscus:
- Bush rat with an average maximal age of 3.42 years
- Lesser bamboo rat with an average maximal age of 3.67 years
- Botta’s pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Acacia rat with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Southern grasshopper mouse with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
- Desert hedgehog with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Great Basin pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years