It is hard to guess what a Cinnamon antechinus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Cinnamon antechinus (Antechinus leo) on average weights 71 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Cinnamon antechinus is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Antechinus). They can live for up to 2 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Cinnamon antechinuss can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 8.
As a reference: An average human weights in at 62 kg (137 lbs) and reaches an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). Humans spend 280 days (40 weeks) in the womb of their mother and reach around 75 years of age.
The cinnamon antechinus (Antechinus leo), also known as the Iron Ranges antechinus and the Cape York antechinus, is a species of small carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is the only mammal endemic to Cape York Peninsula, being confined to semideciduous forest around the McIlraith and Iron Ranges. Along with the Atherton antechinus (Antechinus godmani), it is the rarest in its genus.
Animals of the same family as a Cinnamon antechinus
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Narrow-nosed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
- Slender-tailed dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with a weight of 54 grams
- Common planigale with a weight of 12 grams
- New Guinean quoll with a weight of 611 grams
- Dusky antechinus with a weight of 62 grams
- Sandstone false antechinus with a weight of 23 grams
- Red-tailed phascogale with a weight of 43 grams
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a weight of 100 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Cinnamon antechinus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Antechinus leo:
- Insular vole bringing 66 grams to the scale
- Nelson’s spiny pocket mouse bringing 67 grams to the scale
- Fringed fruit-eating bat bringing 63 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s thicket rat bringing 75 grams to the scale
- Ansell’s mole-rat bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Link rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Paramo Oldfield mouse bringing 77 grams to the scale
- Short-tailed gymnure bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Lodgepole chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Namaqua rock rat bringing 57 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Cinnamon antechinus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (8) as a Cinnamon antechinus:
- White-footed dunnart
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum
- Southern long-nosed armadillo
- European polecat
- Narrow-headed vole
- Taiga vole
- African wild dog
- Golden hamster
- Virginia opossum
- Grayish mouse opossum
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Cinnamon antechinus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Cinnamon antechinus:
- Laxmann’s shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Hoary bat with an average maximal age of 2.08 years
- Malabar spiny dormouse with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Dusky antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Fawn antechinus with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Southern red-backed vole with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with an average maximal age of 1.67 years