It is hard to guess what a Dorothy’s slender opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dorothy’s slender opossum (Marmosops dorothea) on average weights 37 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Dorothy’s slender opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Marmosops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.2 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Dorothy’s slender opossum (Marmosops dorothea) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is found in Brazil and Bolivia. It is threatened by habitat loss.Recent research suggests that M. dorothea is a synonym of M. noctivagus, the white-bellied slender opossum. On the other hand, M. ocellatus, a junior synonym of M. dorothea, may be a separate true species.
Animals of the same family as a Dorothy’s slender opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Virginia opossum bringing 2.46 kilos (5.42 lbs) to the scale
- Gray short-tailed opossum with a weight of 94 grams
- Southern red-sided opossum with a weight of 48 grams
- Northern three-striped opossum with a weight of 19 grams
- Bishop’s slender opossum with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared opossum bringing 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs) to the scale
- Lutrine opossum with a weight of 556 grams
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a weight of 26 grams
- Brown four-eyed opossum with a weight of 365 grams
- Yellow-sided opossum with a weight of 45 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dorothy’s slender opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Marmosops dorothea:
- Sclater’s golden mole bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Zempoaltépec vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Macroscelides proboscideus bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Saunder’s vlei rat bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Southern vole bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Cyclops roundleaf bat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Typical striped grass mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Smith’s vole bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed spiny rat bringing 30 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Dorothy’s slender opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Dorothy’s slender opossum:
- Gambian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Guajira mouse opossum with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- California chipmunk with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tete veld aethomys with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Harris’s antelope squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Long-footed rat with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Hastings River mouse with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Broad-toothed mouse with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Colorado chipmunk with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)