It is hard to guess what a Southern pig-footed bandicoot weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern pig-footed bandicoot (Chaeropus ecaudatus) on average weights 220 grams (0.49 lbs).
The Southern pig-footed bandicoot is from the family Peramelidae (genus: Chaeropus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 2.04 meter (6′ 9″). Usually, Southern pig-footed bandicoots have 2 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 pig-footed bandicoot – Chaeropus ecaudatus – was a small species of herbivorous marsupial in the genus Chaeropus, the pig-footed bandicoots.
Animals of the same family as a Southern pig-footed bandicoot
We found other animals of the Peramelidae family:
- Lesser bilby with a weight of 364 grams
- Northern brown bandicoot bringing 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs) to the scale
- Golden bandicoot with a weight of 425 grams
- Long-nosed bandicoot with a weight of 720 grams
- Greater bilby bringing 1.23 kilos (2.71 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern barred bandicoot with a weight of 903 grams
- Southern brown bandicoot with a weight of 825 grams
- Western barred bandicoot with a weight of 230 grams
- Desert bandicoot with a weight of 499 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern pig-footed bandicoot
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Chaeropus ecaudatus:
- Indochinese flying squirrel bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Sonoran woodrat bringing 227 grams to the scale
- Southern Plains woodrat bringing 255 grams to the scale
- Black-striped squirrel bringing 209 grams to the scale
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel bringing 201 grams to the scale
- Black-spined Atlantic tree-rat bringing 224 grams to the scale
- Banks flying fox bringing 210 grams to the scale
- Greenish naked-backed fruit bat bringing 236 grams to the scale
- Maule tuco-tuco bringing 235 grams to the scale
- White-throated woodrat bringing 208 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern pig-footed bandicoot
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Southern pig-footed bandicoot: