It is hard to guess what a Djoongari weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Djoongari (Pseudomys fieldi) on average weights 43 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Djoongari is from the family Muridae (genus: Pseudomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.5 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Djoongaris have 2 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.
Djoongari – Pseudomys fieldi – is a species of rodent in the murid family. The common names have included the Shark Bay and Alice Springs mouse. The range of the species in Australia has become restricted to four islands in the Shark Bay area. It was once found throughout the western two thirds of Australia but it suffered greatly after the arrival of Europeans and feral animals. Its range was reduced to coastal sand dunes on Bernier Island, leaving it severely endangered. In 2003 the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) released some Shark Bay mice onto Faure Island in the hope of creating another population. Despite the presence of owls the reintroduction was successful and the population quickly grew to a larger size than that of Bernier Island, no longer leaving the species on the brink of extinction.
Animals of the same family as a Djoongari
We found other animals of the Muridae family:
- Greater hamster-rat with 4 babies per litter
- Nyika climbing mouse with a weight of 15 grams
- Malayan field rat with a weight of 119 grams
- Savile’s bandicoot rat with a weight of 260 grams
- Zempoaltepec with a weight of 58 grams
- Oecomys speciosus with a weight of 73 grams
- White-tailed rat with a weight of 86 grams
- Pallid Atlantic Forest rat with a weight of 90 grams
- Hummelinck’s vesper mouse with a weight of 27 grams
- Northwestern deer mouse with a weight of 28 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Djoongari
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys fieldi:
- Mountain mosaic-tailed rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Spotted bolo mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- White-ankled mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Pseudoryzomys bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Asian house shrew bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Fringe-lipped bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Lesser tree mouse bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Mole-like rice tenrec bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Four-striped grass mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Dusky slender opossum bringing 46 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Djoongari
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Djoongari:
- Mexican volcano mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gray-bellied caenolestid with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Taiwan vole with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Robert’s hocicudo with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dickey’s deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese water shrew with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern three-striped opossum with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Djoongari
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Djoongari: