It is hard to guess what a Brown antechinus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Brown antechinus (Antechinus stuartii) on average weights 29 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Brown antechinus is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Antechinus). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.1 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Brown antechinuss can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 6.
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 brown antechinus (Antechinus stuartii), also known as Stuart’s antechinus and Macleay’s marsupial mouse, is a species of small carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. The males die after their first breeding season, and the species holds the world record for being the world’s smallest semelparous mammal.
Animals of the same family as a Brown antechinus
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Long-tailed dunnart with a weight of 18 grams
- Northern quoll with a weight of 477 grams
- Sandstone false antechinus with a weight of 23 grams
- Eastern quoll bringing 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) to the scale
- Speckled dasyure with a weight of 212 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 109 grams
- Agile antechinus with a weight of 22 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with a weight of 54 grams
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Short-furred dasyure with a weight of 161 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Brown antechinus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Antechinus stuartii:
- Eastern heather vole bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Flat-haired mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Shadowy broad-nosed bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys longicaudatus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Long-eared flying mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Brazilian gracile opossum bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Yellow steppe lemming bringing 26 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Brown antechinus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Brown antechinus:
- California ground squirrel
- Chinese striped hamster
- Eurasian water shrew
- Mohave ground squirrel
- Harris’s antelope squirrel
- Woolly mouse opossum
- Julia Creek dunnart
- New Guinean quoll
- Bronze quoll
- Big-eared opossum
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Brown antechinus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Brown antechinus:
- Northern short-tailed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.75 years
- Japanese mountain mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Brants’s climbing mouse with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Yellow-footed antechinus with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Coast mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Allen’s big-eared bat with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Bush rat with an average maximal age of 3.42 years