It is hard to guess what a Northern greater galago weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern greater galago (Otolemur garnettii) on average weights 812 grams (1.79 lbs).
The Northern greater galago is from the family Galagonidae (genus: Otolemur). It is usually born with about 49 grams (0.11 lbs). They can live for up to 17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30.7 cm (1′ 1″). Usually, Northern greater galagos 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 greater galago (Otolemur garnettii), also known as Garnett’s greater galago or small-eared greater galago, is a nocturnal, arboreal primate endemic to Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Northern greater galago
We found other animals of the Galagonidae family:
- Senegal bushbaby with a weight of 216 grams
- Mohol bushbaby with a weight of 193 grams
- Northern needle-clawed bushbaby with a weight of 278 grams
- Dusky bushbaby with a weight of 213 grams
- Somali bushbaby with a weight of 250 grams
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a weight of 67 grams
- Brown greater galago bringing 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs) to the scale
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with a weight of 268 grams
- Zanzibar bushbaby with a weight of 148 grams
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with a weight of 296 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern greater galago
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Otolemur garnettii:
- Peters’s squirrel bringing 650 grams to the scale
- Striped polecat bringing 812 grams to the scale
- Angolan kusimanse bringing 700 grams to the scale
- Bahamian hutia bringing 912 grams to the scale
- Black-footed ferret bringing 907 grams to the scale
- Desert cottontail bringing 882 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed prairie dog bringing 797 grams to the scale
- Paraguaian hairy dwarf porcupine bringing 751 grams to the scale
- Cacomistle bringing 906 grams to the scale
- Bronze quoll bringing 896 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern greater galago
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Northern greater galago:
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose
- Rufous elephant shrew
- Red-legged pademelon
- Northern viscacha
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Spectral bat
- Lake Mackay hare-wallaby
- Irrawaddy dolphin
- Blackbuck
- Siberian musk deer
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Northern greater galago
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Northern greater galago:
- Thomson’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 15.17 years
- Red slender loris with an average maximal age of 16.33 years
- Black-backed jackal with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Snow leopard with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Lechwe with an average maximal age of 18.5 years
- Asian golden cat with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Rock hyrax with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Philippine tarsier with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Red hartebeest with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Thorold’s deer with an average maximal age of 18 years