It is hard to guess what a Slender treeshrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Slender treeshrew (Tupaia gracilis) on average weights 112 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Slender treeshrew is from the family Tupaiidae (genus: Tupaia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 18.5 cm (0′ 8″).
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 slender treeshrew (Tupaia gracilis) is a treeshrew species within the Tupaiidae. It is native to Borneo and inhabits foremost lowland old forest.
Animals of the same family as a Slender treeshrew
We found other animals of the Tupaiidae family:
- Madras treeshrew with a weight of 160 grams
- Painted treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew with a weight of 60 grams
- Pygmy treeshrew with a weight of 70 grams
- Mountain treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Large treeshrew with a weight of 182 grams
- Striped treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Mindanao treeshrew with a weight of 301 grams
- Northern treeshrew with a weight of 200 grams
- Horsfield’s treeshrew with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same weight as a Slender treeshrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tupaia gracilis:
- Lesser ricefield rat bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Carpentarian rock rat bringing 123 grams to the scale
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Northern pocket gopher bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Slender rat bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori otter shrew bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Guianan spear-nosed bat bringing 134 grams to the scale
- New Guinean rat bringing 133 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Slender treeshrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Slender treeshrew:
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Insular flying fox with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Baird’s pocket gopher with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- Robust yellow bat with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mariana fruit bat with a size of 21.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy marmoset with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Washington ground squirrel with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ili pika with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)