It is hard to guess what a Southern tree hyrax weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax arboreus) on average weights 3.18 kg (7 lbs).
The Southern tree hyrax is from the family Procaviidae (genus: Dendrohyrax). They can live for up to 12.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 49.9 cm (1′ 8″). Usually, Southern tree hyraxs 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 tree hyrax (Dendrohyrax arboreus) or also known as the southern tree dassie is a species of mammal in the family Procaviidae. The southern tree hyrax is mainly found in the south central eastern side of Africa.
Animals of the same family as a Southern tree hyrax
We found other animals of the Procaviidae family:
- Southern tree hyrax bringing 2.71 kilos (5.97 lbs) to the scale
- Heterohyrax antineae with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Yellow-spotted rock hyrax bringing 2.45 kilos (5.4 lbs) to the scale
- Rock hyrax bringing 2.95 kilos (6.5 lbs) to the scale
- Western tree hyrax bringing 3.18 kilos (7.01 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Southern tree hyrax
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dendrohyrax arboreus:
- Bay cat with a weight of 3.43 kilos (7.56 lbs)
- Verreaux’s sifaka with a weight of 3.61 kilos (7.96 lbs)
- Bald uakari with a weight of 3.42 kilos (7.54 lbs)
- Wolffsohn’s viscacha with a weight of 2.68 kilos (5.91 lbs)
- Western tree hyrax with a weight of 3.18 kilos (7.01 lbs)
- Giant forest genet with a weight of 2.74 kilos (6.04 lbs)
- Sand cat with a weight of 2.82 kilos (6.22 lbs)
- White-footed saki with a weight of 2.8 kilos (6.17 lbs)
- Long-tailed pangolin with a weight of 2.75 kilos (6.06 lbs)
- Campbell’s mona monkey with a weight of 3.63 kilos (8 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Southern tree hyrax
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southern tree hyrax:
- Alexander’s kusimanse with a size of 45 cm (1′ 6″)
- Alpine woolly rat with a size of 44.2 cm (1′ 6″)
- Southern naked-tailed armadillo with a size of 45.5 cm (1′ 6″)
- White-sided jackrabbit with a size of 48.8 cm (1′ 8″)
- Greater mouse-deer with a size of 56.2 cm (1′ 11″)
- Lar gibbon with a size of 54.5 cm (1′ 10″)
- Tana River red colobus with a size of 56 cm (1′ 11″)
- Brazilian porcupine with a size of 46.9 cm (1′ 7″)
- Diademed sifaka with a size of 50.1 cm (1′ 8″)
- Lesser grison with a size of 42.4 cm (1′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Southern tree hyrax
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Southern tree hyrax:
- Black-eared flying fox
- Western red colobus
- Ring-tailed vontsira
- Roe deer
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Goat
- Greater bamboo lemur
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat
- Pygmy ringtail possum
- Kloss’s gibbon
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Southern tree hyrax
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Southern tree hyrax:
- Banded palm civet with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Banded mongoose with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Hispaniolan solenodon with an average maximal age of 11.33 years
- Grant’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Common noctule with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Leadbeater’s possum with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Fulvus roundleaf bat with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Myotis vivesi with an average maximal age of 10 years