It is hard to guess what a New Guinean planigale weights. But we have the answer:
An adult New Guinean planigale (Planigale novaeguineae) on average weights 14 grams (0.03 lbs).
The New Guinean planigale is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Planigale). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.7 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.
The New Guinean planigale (Planigale novaeguineae), also known as the Papuan planigale, is a species of small marsupial carnivore native to the Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands of New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a New Guinean planigale
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Tiger quoll bringing 3.32 kilos (7.32 lbs) to the scale
- Sarcophilus laniarius bringing 8.35 kilos (18.41 lbs) to the scale
- Long-tailed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
- Kultarr with a weight of 25 grams
- Swamp antechinus with a weight of 53 grams
- Paucident planigale with a weight of 9 grams
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a weight of 100 grams
- Three-striped dasyure with a weight of 223 grams
- Woolley’s false antechinus with a weight of 43 grams
- Narrow-nosed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
Animals with the same weight as a New Guinean planigale
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Planigale novaeguineae:
- Gracile naked-tailed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Broad-eared horseshoe bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Rufous mouse opossum bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Rhinolophus hilli bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Spotted free-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Greater long-tailed hamster bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Spotted-winged fruit bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Long-clawed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Large-eared slit-faced bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Glacier Bay water shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a New Guinean planigale
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as New Guinean planigale:
- Montane grass mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern red-sided opossum with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Greater forest shrew with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Lined pocket mouse with a size of 7.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Southern three-striped opossum with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Cowan’s shrew tenrec with a size of 6.3 cm (0′ 3″)
- Little yellow-shouldered bat with a size of 6.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Wood mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)