It is hard to guess what a Potto weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Potto (Perodicticus potto) on average weights 1.08 kg (2.38 lbs).
The Potto is from the family Loridae (genus: Perodicticus). It is usually born with about 37 grams (0.08 lbs). They can live for up to 26 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 32 cm (1′ 1″). Usually, Pottos 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 potto (Perodicticus potto) is a strepsirrhine primate of the family Lorisidae. It is the only species in the genus Perodicticus. It is also known as Bosman’s potto, after Willem Bosman, who described the species in 1704. In some English-speaking parts of Africa, it is called a “softly-softly”.
Animals of the same family as a Potto
We found other animals of the Loridae family:
- Golden angwantibo with a weight of 235 grams
- Calabar angwantibo with a weight of 258 grams
- Sunda slow loris with a weight of 940 grams
- Red slender loris with a weight of 249 grams
- Pygmy slow loris with a weight of 343 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Potto
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Perodicticus potto:
- Hooded skunk with a weight of 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs)
- Black jackrabbit with a weight of 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs)
- Black flying squirrel with a weight of 1.19 kilos (2.62 lbs)
- Greater bilby with a weight of 1.23 kilos (2.71 lbs)
- White-tailed prairie dog bringing 964 grams to the scale
- Lemur-like ringtail possum bringing 997 grams to the scale
- Japanese marten with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Desert rat-kangaroo bringing 929 grams to the scale
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk with a weight of 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs)
- Western quoll with a weight of 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Potto
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Potto:
- Greater grison with a size of 25.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Great flying fox with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Amazon bamboo rat with a size of 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)
- Rothschild’s woolly rat with a size of 38.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Western gray squirrel with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black dwarf porcupine with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Eastern woolly lemur with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Hispaniolan solenodon with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Brown-eared woolly opossum with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Potto
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Potto:
- Wolf’s mona monkey
- White-bellied yellow bat
- Preuss’s monkey
- South American fur seal
- Mashona mole-rat
- Ursine colobus
- Western mastiff bat
- Jaguar
- Onager
- Smaller horseshoe bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Potto
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Potto:
- Water buffalo with an average maximal age of 28.25 years
- Leopard seal with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Bechstein’s bat with an average maximal age of 21 years
- King colobus with an average maximal age of 30.5 years
- Tiger with an average maximal age of 26.25 years
- South Asian river dolphin with an average maximal age of 28 years
- Blue monkey with an average maximal age of 27.08 years
- Sumatran serow with an average maximal age of 21 years
- African buffalo with an average maximal age of 29.5 years
- Gayal with an average maximal age of 26.17 years