It is hard to guess what a Southern needle-clawed bushbaby weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern needle-clawed bushbaby (Euoticus elegantulus) on average weights 296 grams (0.65 lbs).
The Southern needle-clawed bushbaby is from the family Galagonidae (genus: Euoticus). They can live for up to 15 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30 cm (1′ 0″). Usually, Southern needle-clawed bushbabys 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 southern needle-clawed bushbaby (Euoticus elegantulus) is a species of strepsirrhine primate in the family Galagidae. Found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, and possibly Democratic Republic of the Congo, its natural habitat is tropical moist forests. While the species is not threatened or endangered, some local populations may be threatened by habitat destruction.
Animals of the same family as a Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
We found other animals of the Galagonidae family:
- Northern greater galago with a weight of 812 grams
- Senegal bushbaby with a weight of 216 grams
- Mohol bushbaby with a weight of 193 grams
- Northern needle-clawed bushbaby with a weight of 278 grams
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a weight of 67 grams
- Somali bushbaby with a weight of 250 grams
- Brown greater galago bringing 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs) to the scale
- Zanzibar bushbaby with a weight of 148 grams
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby with a weight of 268 grams
- Dusky bushbaby with a weight of 213 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Euoticus elegantulus:
- Long-tailed giant rat bringing 349 grams to the scale
- Common punaré bringing 298 grams to the scale
- Black-shouldered opossum bringing 258 grams to the scale
- Northern needle-clawed bushbaby bringing 278 grams to the scale
- Lombok flying fox bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Barbary ground squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Mechow’s mole-rat bringing 272 grams to the scale
- Nectomys rattus bringing 249 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed spiny rat bringing 285 grams to the scale
- Tropical pocket gopher bringing 350 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southern needle-clawed bushbaby:
- Golden lion tamarin with a size of 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Isabel naked-tailed rat with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Lord Derby’s scaly-tailed squirrel with a size of 35.7 cm (1′ 3″)
- Calabar angwantibo with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Three-striped night monkey with a size of 35.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Northern sportive lemur with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- White-tailed prairie dog with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Amazon bamboo rat with a size of 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Southern needle-clawed bushbaby:
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat
- De Vis’s woolly rat
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Handley’s tailless bat
- Sangihe tarsier
- Mindanao treeshrew
- Western mastiff bat
- Mountain gazelle
- Mantled howler
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Southern needle-clawed bushbaby
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Southern needle-clawed bushbaby:
- Dama gazelle with an average maximal age of 17.25 years
- Common pipistrelle with an average maximal age of 16.67 years
- Long-footed treeshrew with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Grey rhebok with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
- Maned sloth with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Sable with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Dall sheep with an average maximal age of 16 years
- Pygmy hog with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Bobak marmot with an average maximal age of 15 years