It is hard to guess what a Fat-tailed dunnart weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) on average weights 16 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Fat-tailed dunnart is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Sminthopsis). They can live for up to 4.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.2 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Fat-tailed dunnarts can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 7.
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 fat-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata) is a species of mouse-like marsupial of the Dasyuridae, the family that includes the little red kaluta, quolls, and the Tasmanian devil. It has an average body length of 60–90 millimeters (2.4–3.5 in) with a tail of 45–70 millimeters (1.8–2.8 in). Ear length is 14–16 millimeters (0.55–0.63 in). One of the smallest carnivorous marsupials, its weight varies between 10–20 grams (0.35–0.71 oz). The tail becomes fat a few mm from the proximal end and remains so right up to the tip. They are eaten by many things, including foxes and cats, as well as other feral animals that live among its environment.
Animals of the same family as a Fat-tailed dunnart
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Black-tailed dasyure with a weight of 38 grams
- Carpentarian dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Tasmanian devil bringing 8.2 kilos (18.08 lbs) to the scale
- White-tailed dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Woolley’s false antechinus with a weight of 43 grams
- Common planigale with a weight of 12 grams
- Sminthopsis laniger with a weight of 26 grams
- Slender-tailed dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Narrow-nosed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with a weight of 54 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Fat-tailed dunnart
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sminthopsis crassicaudata:
- Greenhall’s dog-faced bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Little long-tailed dunnart bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed tailless bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Spotted bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Malayan slit-faced bat bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Greater long-tailed hamster bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Mottled-tailed shrew mouse bringing 18 grams to the scale
- Bokhara horseshoe bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Small vesper mouse bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Desert pocket mouse bringing 15 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Fat-tailed dunnart
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Fat-tailed dunnart:
- Taiga shrew
- Lutrine opossum
- Long-tailed ground squirrel
- Red-cheeked ground squirrel
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel
- Stripe-faced dunnart
- Little long-tailed dunnart
- Richardson’s ground squirrel
- Long-tailed planigale
- Lesser bandicoot rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Fat-tailed dunnart
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Fat-tailed dunnart:
- Evening bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Striped field mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Siberian flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Smith’s vole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Paucident planigale with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Wood mouse with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 4.58 years
- Northern common cuscus with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Brown-tailed mongoose with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Woodland thicket rat with an average maximal age of 4.33 years