It is hard to guess what a Common planigale weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Common planigale (Planigale maculata) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Common planigale is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Planigale). They can live for up to 4 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30 cm (1′ 0″). On average, Common planigales can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 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 common planigale (Planigale maculata), also known as the pygmy planigale or the coastal planigale, is one of many small marsupial carnivores known as “marsupial mice” found in Australia. There they fill a similar niche to the insectivores of other parts of the world.
Animals of the same family as a Common planigale
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 53 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 109 grams
- Wongai ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 112 grams
- White-footed dunnart with a weight of 24 grams
- Slender-tailed dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Swamp antechinus with a weight of 53 grams
- Hairy-footed dunnart with a weight of 15 grams
- Kangaroo Island dunnart with a weight of 22 grams
- Short-furred dasyure with a weight of 161 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Common planigale
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Planigale maculata:
- Isabelle’s ghost bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Microryzomys altissimus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Pearson’s horseshoe bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Intermediate horseshoe bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart bringing 11 grams to the scale
- California leaf-nosed bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Gervais’s fruit-eating bat bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Variegated butterfly bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Roberts’s flat-headed bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- African black shrew bringing 11 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Common planigale
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Common planigale:
- Southern ningaui
- European hamster
- Little ground squirrel
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel
- Common opossum
- Red-cheeked ground squirrel
- Richardson’s ground squirrel
- Taiga shrew
- Dibbler
- Southern multimammate mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Common planigale
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Common planigale:
- Kultarr with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Woodland thicket rat with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Pallas’s pika with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Botta’s pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Berdmore’s ground squirrel with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Southwestern water vole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Banded hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Black myotis with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Northern birch mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years