It is hard to guess what a Agile antechinus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Agile antechinus (Antechinus agilis) on average weights 22 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Agile antechinus is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Antechinus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.8 cm (0′ 3″). Usually, Agile antechinuss have 10 babies per litter.
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 agile antechinus (Antechinus agilis) is a species of small carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is found in Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Agile antechinus
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with a weight of 124 grams
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a weight of 100 grams
- Sminthopsis laniger with a weight of 26 grams
- Wongai ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a weight of 35 grams
- Short-furred dasyure with a weight of 161 grams
- Grey-bellied dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Paucident planigale with a weight of 9 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 54 grams
- Parantechinus bilarni with a weight of 23 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Agile antechinus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Antechinus agilis:
- Bank vole bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Sminthopsis laniger bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Northern three-striped opossum bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Ural field mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Allen’s wood mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Wrinkle-faced bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- White-footed mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- San Diego pocket mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Percival’s spiny mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Seba’s short-tailed bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Agile antechinus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (10) as a Agile antechinus: