It is hard to guess what a Crest-tailed mulgara weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Crest-tailed mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda) on average weights 100 grams (0.22 lbs).
The Crest-tailed mulgara is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Dasycercus). They can live for up to 7 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 17.5 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Crest-tailed mulgaras 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 crest-tailed mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda), is a small to medium-sized Australian carnivorous marsupial and a member of the family Dasyuridae (meaning “hairy tail”) which includes quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, Tasmanian devil and extinct thylacine. The crest-tailed mulgara is among a group of native predatory mammals or mesopredators endemic to arid Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Crest-tailed mulgara
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Black-tailed dasyure with a weight of 38 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure with a weight of 38 grams
- Kultarr with a weight of 25 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with a weight of 54 grams
- Kangaroo Island dunnart with a weight of 22 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 112 grams
- Brush-tailed phascogale with a weight of 193 grams
- Little long-tailed dunnart with a weight of 14 grams
- Wongai ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 109 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Crest-tailed mulgara
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dasycercus cristicauda:
- Northern three-toed jerboa bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed hopping mouse bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Sooretamys bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Owl’s spiny rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Highveld gerbil bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Mountain pocket gopher bringing 81 grams to the scale
- Guinean gerbil bringing 102 grams to the scale
- Australian swamp rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel bringing 118 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Crest-tailed mulgara
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Crest-tailed mulgara:
- Dwarf flying fox with a size of 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Spotted ground squirrel with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gray-cheeked flying squirrel with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Père David’s mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lewis’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Allen’s cotton rat with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum with a size of 20.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Haig’s tuco-tuco with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ornate flying fox with a size of 18.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Bryant’s woodrat with a size of 20.9 cm (0′ 9″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Crest-tailed mulgara
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Crest-tailed mulgara:
- Northern quoll
- Roborovski dwarf hamster
- Arctic shrew
- Harris’s antelope squirrel
- California ground squirrel
- Afghan pika
- Flat-headed vole
- Common shrew
- White-eared opossum
- Desert dormouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Crest-tailed mulgara
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Crest-tailed mulgara:
- Woodland dormouse with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- Island fox with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Mongolian gazelle with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Greater bulldog bat with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- Tasmanian devil with an average maximal age of 8.17 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Florida mouse with an average maximal age of 7.33 years
- Eastern mole with an average maximal age of 6.17 years
- Kowari with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Slender mongoose with an average maximal age of 6 years