It is hard to guess what a Northern treeshrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern treeshrew (Tupaia belangeri) on average weights 200 grams (0.44 lbs).
The Northern treeshrew is from the family Tupaiidae (genus: Tupaia). They can live for up to 10 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 41.5 cm (1′ 5″).
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 treeshrew (Tupaia belangeri) is a treeshrew species native to Southeast Asia.In 1841, the German zoologist Johann Andreas Wagner first used the specific name Cladobates belangeri for treeshrews that had been collected in Pegu during a French expedition to Southeast Asia. These specimens were described by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in 1834 in whose opinion they did not differ sufficiently from Tupaia tana to assign a specific rank.
Animals of the same family as a Northern treeshrew
We found other animals of the Tupaiidae family:
- Mountain treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Striped treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Painted treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Mindanao treeshrew with a weight of 301 grams
- Ruddy treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Nicobar treeshrew with a weight of 170 grams
- Madras treeshrew with a weight of 160 grams
- Palawan treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Common treeshrew with a weight of 132 grams
- Long-footed treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern treeshrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tupaia belangeri:
- Haig’s tuco-tuco bringing 164 grams to the scale
- Collared tuco-tuco bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed spiny rat bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Mexican woodrat bringing 203 grams to the scale
- Plains pocket gopher bringing 179 grams to the scale
- Indian hedgehog bringing 171 grams to the scale
- Smith’s bush squirrel bringing 222 grams to the scale
- Turkish hamster bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Shipton’s mountain cavy bringing 185 grams to the scale
- Island mouse bringing 164 grams to the scale
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Northern treeshrew
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Northern treeshrew:
- American red squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Oncilla with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Pale fox with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Gray brocket with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Common ringtail possum with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Western tree hyrax with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Parma wallaby with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Long-nosed potoroo with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Whiskered bat with an average maximal age of 9.25 years
- Mountain nyala with an average maximal age of 11 years