It is hard to guess what a Painted treeshrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Painted treeshrew (Tupaia picta) on average weights 168 grams (0.37 lbs).
The Painted treeshrew is from the family Tupaiidae (genus: Tupaia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.5 cm (0′ 8″).
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 painted treeshrew (Tupaia picta) is a treeshrew species of the family Tupaiidae.The first specimen was described by Oldfield Thomas and was part of a zoological collection from northern Borneo obtained by the British Museum of Natural History.
Animals of the same family as a Painted treeshrew
We found other animals of the Tupaiidae family:
- Mindanao treeshrew with a weight of 301 grams
- Northern treeshrew with a weight of 200 grams
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew with a weight of 50 grams
- Palawan treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew with a weight of 60 grams
- Ruddy treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Mountain treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Common treeshrew with a weight of 132 grams
- Pen-tailed treeshrew with a weight of 42 grams
- Slender treeshrew with a weight of 112 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Painted treeshrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tupaia picta:
- Large treeshrew bringing 182 grams to the scale
- Luzon hairy-tailed rat bringing 170 grams to the scale
- Mottled tuco-tuco bringing 192 grams to the scale
- Greater Egyptian jerboa bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat bringing 186 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Spectral bat bringing 171 grams to the scale
- Cape mole-rat bringing 189 grams to the scale
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Sooretamys bringing 144 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Painted treeshrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Painted treeshrew:
- Sado mole with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ribboned rope squirrel with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Jentink’s squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Shrew-faced squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Common treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Summit rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Golden-mantled ground squirrel with a size of 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Senegal bushbaby with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)