It is hard to guess what a Raffray’s bandicoot weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Raffray’s bandicoot (Peroryctes raffrayana) on average weights 905 grams (2 lbs).
The Raffray’s bandicoot is from the family Peroryctidae (genus: Peroryctes). They can live for up to 3.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 34.6 cm (1′ 2″). Usually, Raffray’s bandicoots 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.
Raffray’s bandicoot (Peroryctes raffrayana) is a species of marsupial in the family Peroryctidae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Animals of the same family as a Raffray’s bandicoot
We found other animals of the Peroryctidae family:
- Menzies’ echymipera bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- Striped bandicoot with a weight of 542 grams
- Giant bandicoot bringing 4.8 kilos (10.58 lbs) to the scale
- Common echymipera with a weight of 825 grams
- Papuan bandicoot with a weight of 158 grams
- Clara’s echymipera bringing 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs) to the scale
- David’s echymipera with a weight of 817 grams
- Mouse bandicoot with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-nosed echymipera bringing 1.05 kilos (2.31 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Raffray’s bandicoot
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Peroryctes raffrayana:
- Western woolly lemur bringing 828 grams to the scale
- Bare-eared squirrel monkey bringing 888 grams to the scale
- Stump-tailed porcupine bringing 832 grams to the scale
- Bolivian bamboo rat bringing 729 grams to the scale
- Northern sportive lemur bringing 760 grams to the scale
- Mountain cottontail bringing 803 grams to the scale
- White-tailed prairie dog bringing 964 grams to the scale
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk bringing 960 grams to the scale
- White-eared opossum with a weight of 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs)
- Northern greater galago bringing 812 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Raffray’s bandicoot
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Raffray’s bandicoot:
- Colombian white-faced capuchin with a size of 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Banded linsang with a size of 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Short-tailed mongoose with a size of 41.5 cm (1′ 5″)
- Black flying squirrel with a size of 38 cm (1′ 3″)
- American marten with a size of 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)
- Mountain beaver with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Hamlyn’s monkey with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- European polecat with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Bagobo rat with a size of 28.9 cm (1′ 0″)
- Sumatran striped rabbit with a size of 37.7 cm (1′ 3″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Raffray’s bandicoot
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Raffray’s bandicoot:
- Climbing shrew
- Aberdare mole shrew
- Bornean orangutan
- Pallas’s squirrel
- Egyptian fruit bat
- Dibatag
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
- Brown dorcopsis
- Speke’s pectinator
- Ashy black titi
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Raffray’s bandicoot
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Raffray’s bandicoot:
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- North African elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Star-nosed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Field vole with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Bush rat with an average maximal age of 3.42 years
- Dibatag with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Southwestern water vole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Smith’s vole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years