It is hard to guess what a Spectral tarsier weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Spectral tarsier (Tarsius tarsier) on average weights 168 grams (0.37 lbs).
The Spectral tarsier is from the family Tarsiidae (genus: Tarsius). It is usually born with about 23 grams (0.05 lbs). They can live for up to 12 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Spectral tarsiers 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 spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrum, also called Tarsius tarsier) is a species of tarsier found on the island of Selayar in Indonesia. It is apparently less specialized than the Philippine tarsier or Horsfield’s tarsier; for example, it lacks adhesive toes. It is the type species for the genus Tarsius. While its range used to also include the population on nearby southwestern Sulawesi, this population has been reclassified as a separate species, Tarsius fuscus. Some of the earlier research published on Tarsius spectrum refers to the taxon that was recently reclassified and elevated to a separate species, the Gursky’s spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrumgurskyae).
Animals of the same family as a Spectral tarsier
We found other animals of the Tarsiidae family:
- Dian’s tarsier with a weight of 110 grams
- Peleng tarsier with a weight of 165 grams
- Pygmy tarsier with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Sangihe tarsier with a weight of 165 grams
- Dian’s tarsier with a weight of 111 grams
- Philippine tarsier with a weight of 116 grams
- Horsfield’s tarsier with a weight of 114 grams
- Spectral tarsier with a weight of 166 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Spectral tarsier
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tarsius tarsier:
- Four-toed elephant shrew bringing 201 grams to the scale
- Lunda rope squirrel bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Talas tuco-tuco bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Annandale’s rat bringing 197 grams to the scale
- Bolivian squirrel bringing 190 grams to the scale
- Leadbeater’s possum bringing 137 grams to the scale
- Nelson’s woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Short-furred dasyure bringing 161 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi stripe-faced fruit bat bringing 172 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Spectral tarsier
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Spectral tarsier:
- Long-tailed pocket mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Spinifex hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Marsh rice rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Townsend’s chipmunk with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mexican mouse opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern marsupial mole with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Spectral tarsier
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Spectral tarsier:
- Tana River mangabey
- Silky cuscus
- Whiptail wallaby
- Malagasy giant rat
- Complex-toothed flying squirrel
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
- Jentink’s duiker
- Striped dolphin
- Bontebok
- Hoffmanns’s titi
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Spectral tarsier
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Spectral tarsier:
- Sharpe’s grysbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Patagonian mara with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Gray brocket with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Greater bilby with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Maxwell’s duiker with an average maximal age of 12.25 years
- Mountain nyala with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Red-fronted gazelle with an average maximal age of 13.5 years
- Short-eared dog with an average maximal age of 11 years
- Whiptail wallaby with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Myotis vivesi with an average maximal age of 10 years