How big does a Potto get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Potto (Perodicticus potto) reaches an average size of 32 cm (1′ 1″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 26 years, they grow from 37 grams (0.08 lbs) to 1.08 kg (2.38 lbs). A Potto has 1 babies at once. The Potto (genus: Perodicticus) is a member of the family Loridae.
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 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
We found other animals of the Loridae family:
- Golden angwantibo with a weight of 235 grams
- Sunda slow loris with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Calabar angwantibo with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Red slender loris with a size of 22.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Pygmy slow loris with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Potto
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Potto:
- Slender mongoose with a size of 33 cm (1′ 1″)
- Yellow mongoose with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Broad-striped Malagasy mongoose with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
- Giant Atlantic tree-rat with a size of 28.1 cm (1′ 0″)
- Greater bamboo lemur with a size of 37 cm (1′ 3″)
- Western white-eared giant rat with a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Gunnison’s prairie dog with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- White-faced spiny tree-rat with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Coppery ringtail possum with a size of 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Marbled polecat with a size of 31.9 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Potto
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Potto:
- Long-legged bat
- Frosted sac-winged bat
- Tonkin snub-nosed monkey
- Zanzibar red colobus
- Central American squirrel monkey
- Greater noctule bat
- Cotton-top tamarin
- Spectral tarsier
- Buru babirusa
- Dibatag
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Potto
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Potto:
- Guanaco with an average maximal age of 28.25 years
- Aardwolf with an average maximal age of 25 years
- Addax with an average maximal age of 25.67 years
- Cacomistle with an average maximal age of 23 years
- Rodrigues flying fox with an average maximal age of 30 years
- Venezuelan red howler with an average maximal age of 25 years
- American badger with an average maximal age of 26 years
- Three-striped night monkey with an average maximal age of 25.25 years
- Eurasian otter with an average maximal age of 22 years
- Steller sea lion with an average maximal age of 30 years
Animals with the same weight as a Potto
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Perodicticus potto:
- Ring-tailed cat with a weight of 1.02 kilos (2.25 lbs)
- Humboldt’s hog-nosed skunk with a weight of 1.1 kilos (2.43 lbs)
- Screaming hairy armadillo bringing 930 grams to the scale
- Sunda flying lemur with a weight of 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs)
- Tres Marias rabbit bringing 964 grams to the scale
- Eastern woolly lemur with a weight of 1.06 kilos (2.34 lbs)
- Utah prairie dog bringing 900 grams to the scale
- Giant golden-crowned flying fox with a weight of 1.09 kilos (2.4 lbs)
- White-tailed prairie dog bringing 964 grams to the scale
- Western quoll with a weight of 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs)