It is hard to guess what a Dusky antechinus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Dusky antechinus (Antechinus swainsonii) on average weights 62 grams (0.14 lbs).
The Dusky antechinus is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Antechinus). They can live for up to 2 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12.1 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Dusky antechinuss can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 8.
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 dusky antechinus (Antechinus swainsonii), also known as Swainson’s antechinus or the dusky marsupial mouse, is a species of small marsupial carnivore, a member of the family Dasyuridae. It is found in Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Dusky antechinus
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Cinnamon antechinus with a weight of 71 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 54 grams
- Long-tailed dunnart with a weight of 18 grams
- Atherton antechinus with a weight of 76 grams
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Paucident planigale with a weight of 9 grams
- Tasmanian devil bringing 8.2 kilos (18.08 lbs) to the scale
- Julia Creek dunnart with a weight of 55 grams
- Dibbler with a weight of 72 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 53 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Dusky antechinus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Antechinus swainsonii:
- Broad-striped dasyure bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Cape short-eared gerbil bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Capricorn leaf-eared mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Spectacled dormouse bringing 68 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed chipmunk bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Greater nectar bat bringing 72 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys russatus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Crete spiny mouse bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Chisel-toothed kangaroo rat bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Puebla deer mouse bringing 59 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Dusky antechinus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (8) as a Dusky antechinus:
- Cinnamon antechinus
- Narrow-headed vole
- Virginia opossum
- Chestnut dunnart
- White-footed dunnart
- European polecat
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum
- Brown rat
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
- Grayish mouse opossum
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Dusky antechinus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Dusky antechinus:
- Southern red-backed vole with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- North American least shrew with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Norway lemming with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Ningbing false antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Slender-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Mediterranean water shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- White-eared opossum with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with an average maximal age of 2 years