How big does a Spectral tarsier get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrum) reaches an average size of 12 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). During their lifetime of about 12 years, they grow from 24 grams (0.05 lbs) to 166 grams (0.37 lbs). A Spectral tarsier has 1 babies at once. The Spectral tarsier (genus: Tarsius) is a member of the family Tarsiidae.
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 spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrum, also called Tarsius tarsier) is a species of tarsier found on the island of Selayar in Indonesia. It is apparently less specialized than the Philippine tarsier or Horsfield’s tarsier; for example, it lacks adhesive toes. It is the type species for the genus Tarsius. While its range used to also include the population on nearby southwestern Sulawesi, this population has been reclassified as a separate species, Tarsius fuscus. Some of the earlier research published on Tarsius spectrum refers to the taxon that was recently reclassified and elevated to a separate species, the Gursky’s spectral tarsier (Tarsius spectrumgurskyae).
Animals of the same family as a Spectral tarsier
We found other animals of the Tarsiidae family:
- Horsfield’s tarsier with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Peleng tarsier with 1 babies per litter
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pygmy tarsier with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Philippine tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Spectral tarsier with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sangihe tarsier with 1 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Spectral tarsier
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Spectral tarsier:
- Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Star-nosed mole with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Polynesian rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray slender opossum with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Heath mouse with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat with a size of 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Broad-striped dasyure with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied caenolestid with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Palmer’s chipmunk with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Spectral tarsier
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Spectral tarsier:
- Lichtenstein’s hartebeest
- Tree pangolin
- Mountain paca
- Pygmy tarsier
- Zempoaltepec deer mouse
- Jentink’s duiker
- Azara’s night monkey
- Western woolly lemur
- Matschie’s tree-kangaroo
- Eastern grey kangaroo
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Spectral tarsier
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Spectral tarsier:
- Fishing cat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Red-fronted gazelle with an average maximal age of 13.5 years
- Javan warty pig with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Cave myotis with an average maximal age of 11.25 years
- Black duiker with an average maximal age of 10.17 years
- Asian small-clawed otter with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Central American agouti with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Silver dik-dik with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Four-horned antelope with an average maximal age of 10.75 years
- Long-tailed chinchilla with an average maximal age of 11.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Spectral tarsier
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Tarsius spectrum:
- Javanese flying squirrel bringing 156 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian narrow-headed rat bringing 144 grams to the scale
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Large New Guinea spiny rat bringing 194 grams to the scale
- Round-tailed ground squirrel bringing 148 grams to the scale
- Indian hedgehog bringing 171 grams to the scale
- Northern flying squirrel bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Papuan bandicoot bringing 158 grams to the scale
- Spectral tarsier bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Dusky rat bringing 146 grams to the scale