It is hard to guess what a Chestnut dunnart weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Chestnut dunnart (Sminthopsis archeri) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Chestnut dunnart is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Sminthopsis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.2 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Chestnut dunnarts have 8 babies per litter.
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 chestnut dunnart (Sminthopsis archeri) is a dunnart that was described by Van Dyck in 1986 and is named because of its chestnut colour in the upperparts of its body. The length from snout to tail is 167–210 mm, of which head to anus is 85–105 mm and tail is 82–105 mm long. The hind foot size is 17–20 mm, ear length is 17–21 mm and weight is 15–20 g.
Animals of the same family as a Chestnut dunnart
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Little red kaluta with a weight of 32 grams
- Fawn antechinus with a weight of 38 grams
- Julia Creek dunnart with a weight of 55 grams
- Slender-tailed dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Ooldea dunnart with a weight of 12 grams
- Western quoll bringing 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) to the scale
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with a weight of 36 grams
- Hairy-footed dunnart with a weight of 15 grams
- White-tailed dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Red-tailed phascogale with a weight of 43 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Chestnut dunnart
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sminthopsis archeri:
- Broad-eared bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix andinus bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Halcyon horseshoe bat bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Eurasian water shrew bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Sierra Leone free-tailed bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed dunnart bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Rainey’s shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Southern red-backed vole bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Algerian mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Therese’s shrew bringing 17 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Chestnut dunnart
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Chestnut dunnart:
- Jamaican fruit bat with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- American shrew mole with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hose’s pygmy flying squirrel with a size of 7.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yucatan deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pearson’s chaco mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Townsend’s mole with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Arctic shrew with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Common rock rat with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bavarian pine vole with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Chestnut dunnart
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (8) as a Chestnut dunnart: