How big does a Mountain treeshrew get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Mountain treeshrew (Tupaia montana) reaches an average size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 168 grams (0.37 lbs). On birth they have a weight of 11 grams (0.02 lbs). A Mountain treeshrew has 2 babies at once. The Mountain treeshrew (genus: Tupaia) is a member of the family Tupaiidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The mountain treeshrew (Tupaia montana) is a treeshrew species within the Tupaiidae.It is endemic to Borneo and inhabits montane forests in Sarawak and Sabah.The first specimen was described by Oldfield Thomas and was part of a zoological collection from northern Borneo obtained by the British Museum of Natural History.
Animals of the same family as a Mountain treeshrew
We found other animals of the Tupaiidae family:
- Common treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Large treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Pygmy treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Painted treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern smooth-tailed treeshrew with a weight of 50 grams
- Ruddy treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Madras treeshrew with 4 babies per litter
- Slender treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Northern treeshrew with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Palawan treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same size as a Mountain treeshrew
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Mountain treeshrew:
- Haig’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bushy-tailed opossum with a size of 17.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lowland streaked tenrec with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Barbary ground squirrel with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Texas pocket gopher with a size of 18.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Asian red-cheeked squirrel with a size of 20.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Samar squirrel with a size of 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Douglas squirrel with a size of 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lesser flying fox with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Smoky pocket gopher with a size of 21.5 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Mountain treeshrew
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Mountain treeshrew:
- Cactus mouse
- Clouded leopard
- White-footed tamarin
- Common mole-rat
- Plateau mouse
- Mozambique thicket rat
- Val’s gundi
- African black shrew
- Eastern harvest mouse
- Golden-headed lion tamarin
Animals with the same weight as a Mountain treeshrew
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tupaia montana:
- Porteous’s tuco-tuco bringing 192 grams to the scale
- Mendoza tuco-tuco bringing 179 grams to the scale
- Gray tree rat bringing 150 grams to the scale
- Ribboned rope squirrel bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Chestnut-bellied spiny rat bringing 159 grams to the scale
- Bridges’s degu bringing 162 grams to the scale
- Altiplano chinchilla mouse bringing 170 grams to the scale
- Black rat bringing 142 grams to the scale
- Masked white-tailed rat bringing 149 grams to the scale
- Desert woodrat bringing 144 grams to the scale