It is hard to guess what a Bushy-tailed opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Bushy-tailed opossum (Glironia venusta) on average weights 114 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Bushy-tailed opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Glironia). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.6 cm (0′ 7″).
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 bushy-tailed opossum (Glironia venusta) is an opossum from South America. It was first described by English zoologist Oldfield Thomas in 1912. It is a medium-sized opossum characterized by a large, oval, dark ears, fawn to cinnamon coat with a buff to gray underside, grayish limbs, and a furry tail. Little is known of the behavior of the bushy-tailed opossum; less than 25 specimens are known. It appears to be arboreal (tree-living), nocturnal (active mainly at night) and solitary. The diet probably comprises insects, eggs and plant material. This opossum has been captured from heavy, humid, tropical forests; it has been reported from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The IUCN classifies it as least concern.
Animals of the same family as a Bushy-tailed opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum with a weight of 119 grams
- White-eared opossum bringing 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) to the scale
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 15 grams
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with a weight of 36 grams
- Yellow-sided opossum with a weight of 45 grams
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum with a weight of 112 grams
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 20 grams
- Gray slender opossum with a weight of 54 grams
- Handley’s slender opossum with a weight of 30 grams
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum with a weight of 11 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Bushy-tailed opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Glironia venusta:
- Dent’s vlei rat bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Guinean gerbil bringing 103 grams to the scale
- Sloggett’s vlei rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Green bush squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Australian swamp rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Gray short-tailed opossum bringing 94 grams to the scale
- Hastings River mouse bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Slender rat bringing 97 grams to the scale
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Arnhem Land rock rat bringing 94 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Bushy-tailed opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bushy-tailed opossum:
- Insular flying fox with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Isarog shrew-rat with a size of 18.7 cm (0′ 8″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Greater tree mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Vordermann’s flying squirrel with a size of 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Richmond’s squirrel with a size of 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Least weasel with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Mountain treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)