It is hard to guess what a Gray slender opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gray slender opossum (Marmosops incanus) on average weights 54 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Gray slender opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Marmosops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13 cm (0′ 6″). Normally, Gray slender opossums can have babies 1 times a year.
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 gray slender opossum (Marmosops incanus), is an opossum species from Brazil.This species is a semi-arboreal marsupial, moving on average 67.38% on the ground. They are solitary, nocturnal, and scansorial (tree climbers). They live off a diet of mainly insects.
Animals of the same family as a Gray slender opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Karimi’s fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bishop’s slender opossum with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern gracile opossum with a weight of 23 grams
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 20 grams
- Water opossum with a weight of 977 grams
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum with a weight of 52 grams
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a weight of 26 grams
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- Common opossum bringing 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Gray slender opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Marmosops incanus:
- Balkan snow vole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys chapmani bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Chibchan water mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Himalayan striped squirrel bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Eastern rock elephant shrew bringing 59 grams to the scale
- Córdoba vesper mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Golden-brown mouse lemur bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Broad-footed climbing mouse bringing 57 grams to the scale
- Small Japanese mole bringing 64 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed dasyure bringing 52 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gray slender opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gray slender opossum:
- Cape elephant shrew with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied tree mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- South African pouched mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- California vole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Eastern chipmunk with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Oldfield white-bellied rat with a size of 14.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Woodland thicket rat with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rossel Island melomys with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)