It is hard to guess what a Djoongari weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Djoongari (Pseudomys praeconis) on average weights 39 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Djoongari is from the family Muridae (genus: Pseudomys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.6 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Djoongaris have 3 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:
- Dent’s vlei rat with a weight of 120 grams
- Philippine forest rat with a weight of 253 grams
- Lusitanian pine vole with 2 babies per litter
- North African gerbil with a weight of 27 grams
- California mouse with a weight of 42 grams
- Blick’s grass rat with a weight of 128 grams
- Sonoran woodrat with a weight of 227 grams
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with a weight of 63 grams
- Insular vole with a weight of 66 grams
- Cape York rat with a weight of 200 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Djoongari
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudomys praeconis:
- Mittendorf’s striped grass mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Luzon montane forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Dryad shrew tenrec bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Verreaux’s mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Montane vole bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix jelskii bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Gray-bellied tree mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Crested-tailed deer mouse bringing 40 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:
- Southern three-striped opossum with a size of 8.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Philippine tarsier with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bushveld elephant shrew with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Neblina slender opossum with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- De Winton’s golden mole with a size of 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Uinta chipmunk with a size of 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cape golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mozambique thicket rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Marsh shrew with a size of 8.5 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Djoongari
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (3) as a Djoongari: