It is hard to guess what a Striped treeshrew weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Striped treeshrew (Tupaia dorsalis) on average weights 168 grams (0.37 lbs).
The Striped 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 striped treeshrew (Tupaia dorsalis) is a treeshrew species within the Tupaiidae.It is endemic to Borneo and known only from a few individuals in Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan.
Animals of the same family as a Striped treeshrew
We found other animals of the Tupaiidae family:
- Mindanao treeshrew with a weight of 301 grams
- Nicobar treeshrew with a weight of 170 grams
- Palawan treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Long-footed treeshrew with a weight of 168 grams
- Pygmy treeshrew with a weight of 70 grams
- Northern treeshrew with a weight of 200 grams
- Large treeshrew with a weight of 182 grams
- Horsfield’s treeshrew with 2 babies per litter
- Slender treeshrew with a weight of 112 grams
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew with a weight of 50 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Striped treeshrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tupaia dorsalis:
- Plains pocket gopher bringing 179 grams to the scale
- Porteous’s tuco-tuco bringing 192 grams to the scale
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Lesser stick-nest rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Lunda rope squirrel bringing 135 grams to the scale
- Pygmy ringtail possum bringing 152 grams to the scale
- Smoky pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Dusky rat bringing 146 grams to the scale
- Rajah spiny rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Alcorn’s pocket gopher bringing 150 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Striped treeshrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Striped treeshrew:
- Large vlei rat with a size of 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- European water vole with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Tsing-ling pika with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Grey-bellied squirrel with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Southern Palawan tree squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel with a size of 22.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Brazilian squirrel with a size of 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)