It is hard to guess what a Brazilian gracile opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brazilian gracile opossum (Gracilinanus microtarsus) on average weights 29 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Brazilian gracile opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Gracilinanus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.1 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 Brazilian gracile opossum (Gracilinanus microtarsus) is a species of small opossum from Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Brazilian gracile opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Tyler’s mouse opossum with a weight of 32 grams
- Sepia short-tailed opossum with a weight of 36 grams
- Panama slender opossum with a weight of 29 grams
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum with a weight of 11 grams
- Alston’s mouse opossum with a weight of 132 grams
- Karimi’s fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern three-striped opossum with a weight of 19 grams
- Grayish mouse opossum with a weight of 48 grams
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with a weight of 93 grams
- Woolly mouse opossum with a weight of 107 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brazilian gracile opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gracilinanus microtarsus:
- Spinifex hopping mouse bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Lesser great leaf-nosed bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Tonatia silvicola bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix lanosus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Akodon budini bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Woolly dormouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Stirton’s deer mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Bibimys torresi bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Koford’s grass mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Wagner’s gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Brazilian gracile opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Brazilian gracile opossum:
- Bank vole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big Mexican small-eared shrew with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Florida mouse with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Père David’s vole with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Silky mouse with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Fawn hopping mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cotton mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)