How big does a Feather-tailed possum get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Feather-tailed possum (Distoechurus pennatus) reaches an average size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 2 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 53 grams (0.12 lbs). A Feather-tailed possum has 1 babies at once. The Feather-tailed possum (genus: Distoechurus) is a member of the family Acrobatidae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The feather-tailed possum (Distoechurus pennatus) is a species of marsupial in the family Acrobatidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It is not to be confused with the feathertail glider, the only other species in the family Acrobatidae.
Animals of the same family as a Feather-tailed possum
We found other animals of the Acrobatidae family:
- Feathertail glider with 2 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Feather-tailed possum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Feather-tailed possum:
- Big-eared woolly bat with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mongolian gerbil with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dian’s tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sagebrush vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Angolan rousette with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Malayan water shrew with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan water shrew with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Feather-tailed possum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Feather-tailed possum:
- Malayan tapir
- Western tree hyrax
- Hardwicke’s woolly bat
- Mountain cuscus
- Puku
- Jentink’s duiker
- Bighorn sheep
- Barbary macaque
- Venezuelan red howler
- Peters’s flat-headed bat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Feather-tailed possum
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Feather-tailed possum:
- Cinnamon antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with an average maximal age of 2 years
- McIlhenny’s four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Cinereus shrew with an average maximal age of 1.92 years
- Southern red-backed vole with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Delany’s mouse with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Dusky antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Norway lemming with an average maximal age of 2 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
Animals with the same weight as a Feather-tailed possum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Distoechurus pennatus:
- Zygodontomys brevicauda bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Large vesper mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Pale gerbil bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Cape short-eared gerbil bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Günther’s vole bringing 50 grams to the scale
- East African little collared fruit bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed vole bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Moss-forest rat bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Alexander’s bush squirrel bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat bringing 56 grams to the scale