It is hard to guess what a Fat-tailed false antechinus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fat-tailed false antechinus (Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis) on average weights 36 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Fat-tailed false antechinus is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Pseudantechinus). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 60.3 cm (2′ 0″). On average, Fat-tailed false antechinuss can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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 false antechinus (Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis), also called the fat-tailed pseudantechinus and red-eared antechinus, is a member of the order Dasyuromorphia. It is an inhabitant of western and central Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Fat-tailed false antechinus
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Parantechinus bilarni with a weight of 23 grams
- Grey-bellied dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Western quoll bringing 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) to the scale
- Brown antechinus with a weight of 29 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with a weight of 54 grams
- Slender-tailed dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Dusky antechinus with a weight of 62 grams
- Pilbara ningaui with a weight of 6 grams
- Three-striped dasyure with a weight of 223 grams
- Agile antechinus with a weight of 22 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Fat-tailed false antechinus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudantechinus macdonnellensis:
- White-bellied slender opossum bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Verreaux’s mouse bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Ethiopian thicket rat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Guadeloupe big-eyed bat bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Rock vole bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Ratanaworabhan’s fruit bat bringing 32 grams to the scale
- Woodford’s fruit bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Elegant water shrew bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Woolley’s false antechinus bringing 43 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Fat-tailed false antechinus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Fat-tailed false antechinus:
- Uinta ground squirrel
- Kowari
- Tiger quoll
- Northern gracile opossum
- Olive-backed pocket mouse
- Asia Minor ground squirrel
- Hildegarde’s broad-headed mouse
- Dalton’s mouse
- Edible dormouse
- Northwestern deer mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Fat-tailed false antechinus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Fat-tailed false antechinus:
- Common opossum with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Kultarr with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Allen’s big-eared bat with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Black myotis with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with an average maximal age of 3.33 years
- Northern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Chestnut tree mouse with an average maximal age of 2.42 years
- Sminthopsis laniger with an average maximal age of 3.25 years
- Etruscan shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years