It is hard to guess what a Red slender loris weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red slender loris (Loris tardigradus) on average weights 249 grams (0.55 lbs).
The Red slender loris is from the family Loridae (genus: Loris). It is usually born with about 11 grams (0.02 lbs). They can live for up to 16.33 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 22.4 cm (0′ 9″). Usually, Red slender loriss 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 red slender loris (Loris tardigradus) is a small, nocturnal strepsirrhine primate native to the rainforests of Sri Lanka. This is #6 of the 10 focal species and #22 of the 100 EDGE mammal species worldwide considered the most evolutionarily distinct and globally endangered. Two subspecies have been identified, L. t. tardigradus and L. t. nycticeboides.
Animals of the same family as a Red slender loris
We found other animals of the Loridae family:
- Potto bringing 1.08 kilos (2.38 lbs) to the scale
- Calabar angwantibo with a weight of 258 grams
- Golden angwantibo with a weight of 235 grams
- Pygmy slow loris with a weight of 343 grams
- Sunda slow loris with a weight of 940 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red slender loris
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Loris tardigradus:
- Ceram fruit bat bringing 228 grams to the scale
- Pallid Atlantic tree-rat bringing 215 grams to the scale
- Robust tuco-tuco bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Montane monkey-faced bat bringing 290 grams to the scale
- Bonetto’s tuco-tuco bringing 202 grams to the scale
- Magdalena spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Mouse-tailed Atlantic spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher bringing 266 grams to the scale
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat bringing 200 grams to the scale
- Ihering’s Atlantic spiny rat bringing 220 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Red slender loris
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red slender loris:
- Ricefield rat with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ili pika with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Franklin’s ground squirrel with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Round-tailed muskrat with a size of 19.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Nectomys squamipes with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bulmer’s fruit bat with a size of 24.5 cm (0′ 10″)
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Microcebus coquereli with a size of 23.1 cm (0′ 10″)
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Brown four-eyed opossum with a size of 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red slender loris
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Red slender loris:
- Admiralty Island cuscus
- Père David’s deer
- Anoa
- Gemsbok
- Rhim gazelle
- Little bent-wing bat
- Rodrigues flying fox
- African savanna hare
- Melck’s house bat
- Red deer
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Red slender loris
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Red slender loris:
- Red hartebeest with an average maximal age of 15.25 years
- Hog badger with an average maximal age of 13.92 years
- Lechwe with an average maximal age of 18.5 years
- Ring-tailed vontsira with an average maximal age of 13.17 years
- Common pipistrelle with an average maximal age of 16.67 years
- Ring-tailed cat with an average maximal age of 16.5 years
- Harbour porpoise with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Philippine tarsier with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Markhor with an average maximal age of 14 years