How big does a Spectral tarsier get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Spectral tarsier (Tarsius tarsier) 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 23 grams (0.05 lbs) to 168 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:
- Spectral tarsier with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pygmy tarsier with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Philippine tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sangihe tarsier with 1 babies per litter
- Horsfield’s tarsier with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Peleng 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:
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater short-nosed fruit bat with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Forest Oldfield mouse with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pygmy tarsier with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hairy-eared dwarf lemur with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Big-eared hopping mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Guajira mouse opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Nayarit mouse with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-necked mouse with a size of 10.3 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:
- Squirrel glider
- Japanese macaque
- Greater noctule bat
- Sunda flying lemur
- Four-toed elephant shrew
- Red-flanked duiker
- Kloss’s gibbon
- Noack’s roundleaf bat
- White-striped dorcopsis
- Wagner’s bonneted bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Spectral tarsier
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Spectral tarsier:
- Crab-eating raccoon with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with an average maximal age of 10.5 years
- Brown mouse lemur with an average maximal age of 12 years
- Chinese ferret-badger with an average maximal age of 10.5 years
- Jaguarundi with an average maximal age of 10.58 years
- Allied rock-wallaby with an average maximal age of 13 years
- Malabar large-spotted civet with an average maximal age of 14 years
- Geoffroy’s tailless bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Grant’s gazelle with an average maximal age of 12.67 years
- Capybara with an average maximal age of 12 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 tarsier:
- Madras treeshrew bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec bringing 160 grams to the scale
- Fat-tailed dwarf lemur bringing 197 grams to the scale
- Sanborn’s squirrel bringing 136 grams to the scale
- Hinde’s rock rat bringing 141 grams to the scale
- Nicobar treeshrew bringing 170 grams to the scale
- Ruddy treeshrew bringing 168 grams to the scale
- Goldman’s woodrat bringing 198 grams to the scale
- Tuft-tailed spiny tree-rat bringing 138 grams to the scale
- Val’s gundi bringing 174 grams to the scale