It is hard to guess what a Yellow-bellied glider weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis) on average weights 568 grams (1.25 lbs).
The Yellow-bellied glider is from the family Petauridae (genus: Petaurus). They can live for up to 16 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 25.5 cm (0′ 11″). On average, Yellow-bellied gliders can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 1.
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 yellow-bellied glider (Petaurus australis), also known as the fluffy glider, is an arboreal and nocturnal gliding possum that lives in native eucalypt forests in eastern Australia, from northern Queensland south to Victoria.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-bellied glider
We found other animals of the Petauridae family:
- Tate’s triok with a weight of 252 grams
- Mahogany glider with a weight of 361 grams
- Great-tailed triok with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Biak glider with a weight of 90 grams
- Sugar glider with a weight of 120 grams
- Striped possum with a weight of 413 grams
- Long-fingered triok with a weight of 370 grams
- Leadbeater’s possum with a weight of 137 grams
- Squirrel glider with a weight of 230 grams
- Northern glider with a weight of 278 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-bellied glider
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Petaurus australis:
- Collie’s squirrel bringing 498 grams to the scale
- Indonesian mountain weasel bringing 466 grams to the scale
- Eastern gray squirrel bringing 546 grams to the scale
- Squirrel-toothed rat bringing 511 grams to the scale
- Painted tree-rat bringing 518 grams to the scale
- Weyland ringtail possum bringing 458 grams to the scale
- Variable pocket gopher bringing 615 grams to the scale
- Geoffroy’s tamarin bringing 493 grams to the scale
- White-footed sportive lemur bringing 600 grams to the scale
- Hispid pocket gopher bringing 499 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Yellow-bellied glider
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Yellow-bellied glider:
- Mentawai langur
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat
- Common pipistrelle
- Greater nectar bat
- Gemsbok
- African buffalo
- Collared titi
- Scully’s tube-nosed bat
- Moor macaque
- Taruca
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Yellow-bellied glider
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Yellow-bellied glider:
- Northern flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Guinea pig with an average maximal age of 14.75 years
- Swamp wallaby with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Snow leopard with an average maximal age of 18 years
- Santarem marmoset with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Cape grysbok with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Pampas fox with an average maximal age of 13.67 years
- Malabar large-spotted civet with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Red fox with an average maximal age of 15 years
- Japanese serow with an average maximal age of 18.5 years