It is hard to guess what a Northern pika weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern pika (Ochotona hyperborea) on average weights 120 grams (0.26 lbs).
The Northern pika is from the family Ochotonidae (genus: Ochotona). It is usually born with about 9 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Northern pikas have 4 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 pika (Ochotona hyperborea) also known as the Japanese guinea pig is a species of pika found across mountainous regions of northern Asia, from the Ural Mountains to northern Japan and south through Mongolia, Manchuria and northern Korea. An adult northern pika has a body length of 12.5–18.5 centimeters (4.9–7.3 in), and a tail of 0.5–1.2 centimeters (0.20–0.47 in). The pika sheds its fur twice annually, bearing a reddish-brown coat in the summer and grayish-brown coat in winter. It feeds on various plant material and makes “hay piles” for winter use.
Animals of the same family as a Northern pika
We found other animals of the Ochotonidae family:
- Plateau pika with a weight of 160 grams
- Royle’s pika with a weight of 260 grams
- Ili pika with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- American pika with a weight of 158 grams
- Himalayan pika with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Steppe pika with a weight of 143 grams
- Gansu pika with a weight of 69 grams
- Daurian pika with a weight of 131 grams
- Turkestan red pika with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Chinese red pika with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals with the same weight as a Northern pika
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ochotona hyperborea:
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- Black rat bringing 142 grams to the scale
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Bramble Cay melomys bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed gerbil bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Sugar glider bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Desert woodrat bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Texas antelope squirrel bringing 113 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Northern pika
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern pika:
- Cerradomys subflavus with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Round-tailed ground squirrel with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Nicobar flying fox with a size of 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gray mouse lemur with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed paramelomys with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser flying fox with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Brown mouse lemur with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Botta’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hainan gymnure with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern pika
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Northern pika: