It is hard to guess what a Tsing-ling pika weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tsing-ling pika (Ochotona huangensis) on average weights 105 grams (0.23 lbs).
The Tsing-ling pika is from the family Ochotonidae (genus: Ochotona). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.6 cm (0′ 7″).
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 Tsing-ling pika (Ochotona huangensis) is a species of pika (or subspecies of daurian pika) endemic to the mountains in Central China. They inhabit mountainous forests and shrublands. It is a poorly known species.It is a rarely found, one of the six pika species endemic to central China, with no true population studies.
Animals of the same family as a Tsing-ling pika
We found other animals of the Ochotonidae family:
- Afghan pika with a weight of 250 grams
- Royle’s pika with a weight of 260 grams
- Ladak pika with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gaoligong pika with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Gansu pika with a weight of 69 grams
- Pallas’s pika with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Turkestan red pika with a size of 20.8 cm (0′ 9″)
- Large-eared pika with a weight of 205 grams
- Koslov’s pika with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Northern pika with a weight of 120 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Tsing-ling pika
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ochotona huangensis:
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s gerbil bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Northern pocket gopher bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Libyan jird bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Plain brush-tailed rat bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Durango chipmunk bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Fringe-tailed gerbil bringing 96 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s gerbil bringing 101 grams to the scale
- Siberian chipmunk bringing 94 grams to the scale
- Charming climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Tsing-ling pika
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tsing-ling pika:
- Desert kangaroo rat with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lesser tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Fawn-footed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hispid cotton rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Northern flying squirrel with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Short-furred dasyure with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bridges’s degu with a size of 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Buller’s chipmunk with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-footed chipmunk with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Somali hedgehog with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)