What is the maximal age a Potto reaches?
An adult Potto (Perodicticus potto) usually gets as old as 26 years.
Pottos are around 193 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 37 grams (0.08 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). As a member of the Loridae family (genus: Perodicticus), their offspring is 1 babies per pregnancy. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 32 cm (1′ 1″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
The potto (Perodicticus potto) is a strepsirrhine primate of the family Lorisidae. It is the only species in the genus Perodicticus. It is also known as Bosman’s potto, after Willem Bosman, who described the species in 1704. In some English-speaking parts of Africa, it is called a “softly-softly”.
Animals of the same family as a Potto
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Loridae):
- Pygmy slow loris with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Golden angwantibo bringing the scale to 235 grams
- Red slender loris becoming 16.33 years old
- Sunda slow loris becoming 26.5 years old
- Calabar angwantibo becoming 13 years old
Animals that reach the same age as Potto
With an average age of 26 years, Potto are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Lesser horseshoe bat usually reaching 21 years
- Bechstein’s bat usually reaching 21 years
- African civet usually reaching 28 years
- Bonnet macaque usually reaching 30 years
- Brown fur seal usually reaching 21 years
- Dall’s porpoise usually reaching 22 years
- Wolf usually reaching 29.5 years
- Guanaco usually reaching 28.25 years
- Honey badger usually reaching 26.5 years
- Aye-aye usually reaching 24.25 years
Animals with the same number of babies Potto
The same number of babies at once (1) are born by:
- Six-banded armadillo
- Red kangaroo
- Naemorhedus sumatraensis
- Black-striped wallaby
- Blue monkey
- Guanaco
- Rothschild’s woolly rat
- Beluga whale
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur
- Mentawai langur
Weighting as much as Potto
A fully grown Potto reaches around 1.08 kg (2.38 lbs). So do these animals:
- Woylie weighting 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs) on average
- Emin’s pouched rat weighting 1.28 kilos (2.82 lbs) on average
- Large flying fox weighting 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) on average
- Spix’s night monkey with 873 grams
- Bahamian hutia with 912 grams
- Sunda slow loris with 940 grams
- Banded palm civet weighting 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs) on average
- Indian giant squirrel weighting 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs) on average
- Greater bilby weighting 1.23 kilos (2.71 lbs) on average
- Greater glider weighting 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs) on average
Animals as big as a Potto
Those animals grow as big as a Potto:
- Reclusive ringtail possum with 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- New Guinean quoll with 26.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Painted ringtail possum with 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- New England cottontail with 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Black giant squirrel with 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- European mink with 36.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Black dwarf porcupine with 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Solomons flying fox with 25.6 cm (0′ 11″)
- Giant naked-tailed rat with 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Eastern common cuscus with 38.4 cm (1′ 4″)