It is hard to guess what a Royle’s pika weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Royle’s pika (Ochotona roylei) on average weights 260 grams (0.57 lbs).
The Royle’s pika is from the family Ochotonidae (genus: Ochotona). It is usually born with about 7 grams (0.02 lbs). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.7 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Royle’s pikas can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 3.
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.
Royle’s pika (Ochotona roylei) is a species of mammal in the pika family (Ochotonidae). It is found in China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Animals of the same family as a Royle’s pika
We found other animals of the Ochotonidae family:
- Alpine pika with a weight of 150 grams
- Ladak pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern pika with a weight of 120 grams
- Large-eared pika with a weight of 205 grams
- Steppe pika with a weight of 143 grams
- Sardinian pika with a size of 22.5 cm (0′ 9″)
- Plateau pika with a weight of 160 grams
- Ili pika with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Daurian pika with a weight of 131 grams
- Himalayan pika with a size of 16.5 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same weight as a Royle’s pika
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ochotona roylei:
- Ontong Java flying fox bringing 232 grams to the scale
- Maule tuco-tuco bringing 235 grams to the scale
- Western barred bandicoot bringing 230 grams to the scale
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby bringing 296 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat bringing 301 grams to the scale
- Smith’s bush squirrel bringing 222 grams to the scale
- Roberto’s spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Colombian spiny rat bringing 312 grams to the scale
- Simons’s spiny rat bringing 284 grams to the scale
- Montane monkey-faced bat bringing 290 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Royle’s pika
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Royle’s pika:
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Goldman’s woodrat with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Malayan field rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Taiga vole with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mount Data shrew-rat with a size of 20.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Green bush squirrel with a size of 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-haired rat with a size of 18.6 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mohave ground squirrel with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Borneo black-banded squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sundevall’s jird with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Royle’s pika
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Royle’s pika: