It is hard to guess what a Carpentarian dunnart weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Carpentarian dunnart (Sminthopsis butleri) on average weights 25 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Carpentarian dunnart is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Sminthopsis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.2 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 Carpentarian dunnart (Sminthopsis butleri) also known as the Butler’s dunnart with a puffy brown or mouse grey colour above and the underside of white, similar to its close relative the Kakadu dunnart. Head to anus length is 75-88mm with a tail of 72-90mm long for a total length of 147-178mm. Weight varies from 10-20g depending on a variety of factors including sex, food abundance, habitat etc.
Animals of the same family as a Carpentarian dunnart
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Brush-tailed phascogale with a weight of 193 grams
- Atherton antechinus with a weight of 76 grams
- Paucident planigale with a weight of 9 grams
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Agile antechinus with a weight of 22 grams
- Three-striped dasyure with a weight of 223 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure with a weight of 38 grams
- Narrow-nosed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
- Southern ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Habbema dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Carpentarian dunnart
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sminthopsis butleri:
- Veldkamp’s dwarf epauletted fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Greater round-eared bat bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Altiplano grass mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys andinus bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Chinese mole shrew bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Grey dwarf hamster bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Pallid bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Hairy-legged vampire bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys microtis bringing 22 grams to the scale