It is hard to guess what a Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby (Galago demidoff) on average weights 66 grams (0.15 lbs).
The Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby is from the family Galagidae (genus: Galago). It is usually born with about 9 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 14 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Prince Demidoff’s bushbabys can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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.
Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby (Galagoides demidovii), also known as Prince Demidoff’s galago, is a species of primate in the family Galagidae. It is native to parts of tropical West and Central Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
We found other animals of the Galagidae family:
- Silvery greater galago bringing 1.58 kilos (3.48 lbs) to the scale
- Zanzibar bushbaby with a weight of 147 grams
- Thomas’s bushbaby with a weight of 117 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Galago demidoff:
- African wading rat bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Andean swamp rat bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Beady-eyed mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Least weasel bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Daphne’s Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Philippine dawn bat bringing 78 grams to the scale
- Oecomys phaeotis bringing 73 grams to the scale
- Namaqua rock rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Oreoryzomys bringing 60 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby:
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Habbema dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bishop’s slender opossum with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Olrog’s chaco mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Serra do Mar grass mouse with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Asian house shrew with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky slender opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby:
- Fire-footed rope squirrel
- Black-striped wallaby
- Grey seal
- White-tailed deer
- Midas free-tailed bat
- Fox’s shrew
- Rusty pipistrelle
- Black-footed cat
- Lesser bamboo bat
- Three-striped night monkey
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby:
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Indian pangolin with an average maximal age of 13.5 years
- Grant’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Common pipistrelle with an average maximal age of 16.67 years
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
- L’Hoest’s monkey with an average maximal age of 16 years
- South African springhare with an average maximal age of 14.5 years
- Fennec fox with an average maximal age of 14.58 years
- Thylacine with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Arctocephalus forsteri with an average maximal age of 15 years