It is hard to guess what a Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys elegans) on average weights 28 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Thylamys). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 12 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossums can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 10.
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 elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum (Thylamys elegans), also known as the Chilean mouse opossum, is an opossum from central Chile. The type species of Thylamys, it was first described by English naturalist George Robert Waterhouse in 1839. This medium-sized opossum is characterized by black rings around the eyes, white limbs, gray to light brown coat, lighter flanks and underbelly and a thick 12.7–14.6 centimetres (5.0–5.7 in) long tail covered with hairs. It is crepuscular (active mainly around twilight) and lives in nests in tree hollows or under rocks and roots. This opossum feeds mainly on arthropods and larvae apart from fruits. Litter size is typically between 11 and 13. The elegant fat-tailed opossum can occur in a variety of habitats – from cloud forests to chaparrals. The IUCN classifies the opossum as least concern.
Animals of the same family as a Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Bishop’s slender opossum with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian gracile opossum with a weight of 29 grams
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 34 grams
- Osgood’s short-tailed opossum with a weight of 112 grams
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Woolly mouse opossum with a weight of 107 grams
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum with a weight of 246 grams
- White-bellied slender opossum with a weight of 34 grams
- Gray four-eyed opossum with a weight of 426 grams
- Agile gracile opossum with a weight of 22 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Thylamys elegans:
- Mearns’s grasshopper mouse bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Broad-headed spiny rat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Bastard big-footed mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Hazel dormouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Big crested mastiff bat bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Crafty vesper mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Brown antechinus bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Shaggy bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum:
- Stolička’s mountain vole with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gould’s mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Visagie’s golden mole with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dusky hopping mouse with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Prairie vole with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Somali hedgehog with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Glacier rat with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- San José Island kangaroo rat with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Short-snouted elephant shrew with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (10) as a Elegant fat-tailed mouse opossum: