It is hard to guess what a Dibbler weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis) on average weights 72 grams (0.16 lbs).
The Dibbler is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Parantechinus). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 14.2 cm (0′ 6″). On average, Dibblers 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.
Dibbler is the common name for Parantechinus apicalis, an endangered species of marsupial. It is an inhabitant of the southwest mainland of Western Australia and some offshore islands. It is a member of the order Dasyuromorphia, and the only member of the genus, Parantechinus. The dibbler is a small, nocturnal carnivore with speckled fur that is white around the eyes.
Animals of the same family as a Dibbler
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Brown antechinus with a weight of 29 grams
- Long-tailed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
- Kultarr with a weight of 25 grams
- Carpentarian dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a weight of 100 grams
- Red-tailed phascogale with a weight of 43 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 53 grams
- Sandhill dunnart with a weight of 33 grams
- Tiger quoll bringing 3.32 kilos (7.32 lbs) to the scale
- Sandstone false antechinus with a weight of 23 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dibbler
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Parantechinus apicalis:
- Euryoryzomys russatus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Pink fairy armadillo bringing 86 grams to the scale
- Low’s squirrel bringing 85 grams to the scale
- Hainan gymnure bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Vampyriscus nymphaea bringing 69 grams to the scale
- Townsend’s chipmunk bringing 79 grams to the scale
- Cinnamon antechinus bringing 71 grams to the scale
- Siberian brown lemming bringing 58 grams to the scale
- Temminck’s striped mouse bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Red-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 78 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Dibbler
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Dibbler:
- Tete veld aethomys with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Philippine tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Seram long-tailed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Siberian flying squirrel with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Temminck’s striped mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Irenomys with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Water vole (North America) with a size of 15.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Hispid cotton rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Spectral tarsier with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Dibbler
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Dibbler:
- Laxmann’s shrew
- Gray short-tailed opossum
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat
- Common planigale
- Piute ground squirrel
- Ooldea dunnart
- Mediterranean water shrew
- Vinogradov’s jird
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum
- Taiga shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Dibbler
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Dibbler:
- Bush rat with an average maximal age of 3.42 years
- Red-tailed phascogale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Water opossum with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Greater white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Dibatag with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Red hocicudo with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Etruscan shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Small Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Smith’s vole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Brown antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years