It is hard to guess what a Pilbara ningaui weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Pilbara ningaui (Ningaui timealeyi) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Pilbara ningaui is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Ningaui). They can live for up to 2 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Pilbara ningauis can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 Pilbara ningaui (Ningaui timealeyi), sometimes known as Ealey’s ningaui, is a tiny species of marsupial carnivore found in Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Pilbara ningaui
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Western quoll bringing 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) to the scale
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a weight of 100 grams
- Agile antechinus with a weight of 22 grams
- Cinnamon antechinus with a weight of 71 grams
- Slender-tailed dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Julia Creek dunnart with a weight of 55 grams
- New Guinean quoll with a weight of 611 grams
- Dibbler with a weight of 72 grams
- Grey-bellied dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Ooldea dunnart with a weight of 12 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Pilbara ningaui
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ningaui timealeyi:
- Jones’s roundleaf bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Lesser brown horseshoe bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Elgon shrew bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Fly River trumpet-eared bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Yellow-faced horseshoe bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Spurred roundleaf bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Marshall’s horseshoe bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Cape serotine bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Narrow-nosed planigale bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Natterer’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Pilbara ningaui
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Pilbara ningaui:
- Javan warty pig
- Tiger quoll
- Pacific jumping mouse
- Alpine shrew
- Caucasian snow vole
- Belding’s ground squirrel
- Buxton’s jird
- Gansu shrew
- Mexican ground squirrel
- Red wolf
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Pilbara ningaui
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Pilbara ningaui:
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Cinnamon antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Tundra vole with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Delany’s mouse with an average maximal age of 2 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