It is hard to guess what a Western long-beaked echidna weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Western long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bruijni) on average weights 8.95 kg (19.73 lbs).
The Western long-beaked echidna is from the family Tachyglossidae (genus: Zaglossus). They can live for up to 31 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 67.5 cm (2′ 3″). Usually, Western long-beaked echidnas 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 western long-beaked echidna (Zaglossus bruijnii) is one of the four extant echidnas and one of three species of Zaglossus that occur in New Guinea. Originally described as Tachyglossus bruijnii, this is the type species of Zaglossus.
Animals of the same family as a Western long-beaked echidna
We found other animals of the Tachyglossidae family:
- Short-beaked echidna bringing 4.5 kilos (9.92 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Western long-beaked echidna
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Zaglossus bruijni:
- Canada lynx with a weight of 9.73 kilos (21.45 lbs)
- Tibetan macaque with a weight of 10.6 kilos (23.37 lbs)
- Culpeo with a weight of 8.62 kilos (19 lbs)
- Celebes crested macaque with a weight of 7.37 kilos (16.25 lbs)
- Japanese macaque with a weight of 10.11 kilos (22.29 lbs)
- Greater long-nosed armadillo with a weight of 9.7 kilos (21.38 lbs)
- Preuss’s red colobus with a weight of 8.91 kilos (19.64 lbs)
- Indian pangolin with a weight of 8.02 kilos (17.68 lbs)
- Stump-tailed macaque with a weight of 9.38 kilos (20.68 lbs)
- Mountain paca with a weight of 9 kilos (19.84 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Western long-beaked echidna
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Western long-beaked echidna:
- Silvery gibbon with a size of 67.6 cm (2′ 3″)
- Masked palm civet with a size of 63.4 cm (2′ 1″)
- Marine otter with a size of 67.8 cm (2′ 3″)
- Hoary fox with a size of 60 cm (2′ 0″)
- Sulawesi palm civet with a size of 68.9 cm (2′ 4″)
- Drill (animal) with a size of 70 cm (2′ 4″)
- Thick-spined porcupine with a size of 54.2 cm (1′ 10″)
- Yellow-throated marten with a size of 55 cm (1′ 10″)
- Red-shanked douc with a size of 61.7 cm (2′ 1″)
- Hoary fox with a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Western long-beaked echidna
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Western long-beaked echidna:
- Golden snub-nosed monkey
- Sambar deer
- Rwanda African mole-rat
- Least pipistrelle
- Prehensile-tailed hutia
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth
- Yellow-backed duiker
- Natal long-fingered bat
- Olive colobus
- Northern greater galago
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Western long-beaked echidna
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Western long-beaked echidna:
- Common wombat with an average maximal age of 26.08 years
- Bobcat with an average maximal age of 32.33 years
- Lion with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Guanaco with an average maximal age of 28.25 years
- South Asian river dolphin with an average maximal age of 28 years
- Pacific white-sided dolphin with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Steller sea lion with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Silvery lutung with an average maximal age of 31.08 years
- Honey badger with an average maximal age of 26.5 years
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth with an average maximal age of 27.75 years