It is hard to guess what a Red-tailed phascogale weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura) on average weights 43 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Red-tailed phascogale is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Phascogale). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.8 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Red-tailed phascogales can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 7.
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 red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura), also known as the red-tailed wambenger, is a small carnivorous marsupial found in central and western Australia. It is closely related to the brush-tailed phascogale (Phascogale tapoatafa), but is smaller and browner.
Animals of the same family as a Red-tailed phascogale
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Grey-bellied dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Little long-tailed dunnart with a weight of 14 grams
- Habbema dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Speckled dasyure with a weight of 212 grams
- Long-tailed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
- White-tailed dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Southern ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Sminthopsis laniger with a weight of 26 grams
- Eastern quoll bringing 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) to the scale
- Woolley’s false antechinus with a weight of 43 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red-tailed phascogale
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Phascogale calura:
- Peruvian fish-eating rat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Perote mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Chibchan water mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Fawn antechinus bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Jamaican fruit bat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Painted big-eared mouse bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Star-nosed mole bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Neuquén grass mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Black-tailed dasyure bringing 38 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Red-tailed phascogale
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red-tailed phascogale:
- Texas kangaroo rat with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woodland jumping mouse with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Southern red-backed vole with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chiriqui harvest mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Taiwan field mouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- North African gerbil with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- White-tipped Oldfield mouse with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Central rock rat with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian shrew mouse with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red tree vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red-tailed phascogale
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Red-tailed phascogale:
- Arctic fox
- Pallas’s pika
- Swamp antechinus
- Drylands vesper mouse
- Southern multimammate mouse
- Lutrine opossum
- Piute ground squirrel
- Taiga shrew
- Vinogradov’s jird
- Long-tailed ground squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Red-tailed phascogale
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Red-tailed phascogale:
- Lowland streaked tenrec with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Dibatag with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Star-nosed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Narrow-nosed planigale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Lutrine opossum with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Tome’s spiny rat with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- White-footed dunnart with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Common vole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Winter white dwarf hamster with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years