It is hard to guess what a Osgood’s short-tailed opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Osgood’s short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis osgoodi) on average weights 112 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Osgood’s short-tailed opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Monodelphis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.5 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
Osgood’s short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis osgoodi) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is found in Bolivia and Peru. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical dry lowland grassland. It is threatened by habitat loss. The opossum is named after American zoologist W. H. Osgood.
Animals of the same family as a Osgood’s short-tailed opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Southern three-striped opossum with a weight of 112 grams
- Heavy-browed mouse opossum with a weight of 47 grams
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum with a weight of 52 grams
- Water opossum with a weight of 977 grams
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 34 grams
- Derby’s woolly opossum with a weight of 328 grams
- Bushy-tailed opossum with a weight of 114 grams
- Northern gracile opossum with a weight of 23 grams
- Black-shouldered opossum with a weight of 258 grams
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a weight of 20 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Osgood’s short-tailed opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Monodelphis osgoodi:
- Horsfield’s tarsier bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Dian’s tarsier bringing 110 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s gerbil bringing 101 grams to the scale
- Texas antelope squirrel bringing 113 grams to the scale
- Edible dormouse bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Tsing-ling pika bringing 105 grams to the scale
- Gorongoza gerbil bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Buller’s chipmunk bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Tanala tufted-tailed rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Sula rat bringing 131 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Osgood’s short-tailed opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Osgood’s short-tailed opossum:
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan shrew with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yucatan deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mountain pygmy possum with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Greater broad-nosed bat with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common vampire bat with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican vole with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern grasshopper mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chestnut dunnart with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Incan caenolestid with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)