It is hard to guess what a Fawn antechinus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Fawn antechinus (Antechinus bellus) on average weights 38 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Fawn antechinus is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Antechinus). They can live for up to 2.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.4 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Fawn antechinuss can have babies 1 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 fawn antechinus (Antechinus bellus) is a species of small carnivorous marsupial found in northern Australia. It is the only Antechinus to be found in the Northern Territory and has a patchy, restricted range. Kunwinjku of western Arnhem Land call this animal Mulbu, as they do many rodents . The spelling is given as Mulbbu on the Bininj Kunwok website
Animals of the same family as a Fawn antechinus
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Sandstone false antechinus with a weight of 23 grams
- Dibbler with a weight of 72 grams
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a weight of 35 grams
- Cinnamon antechinus with a weight of 71 grams
- Dusky antechinus with a weight of 62 grams
- Stripe-faced dunnart with a weight of 24 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 109 grams
- White-tailed dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Antechinus wilhelmina with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western quoll bringing 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Fawn antechinus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Antechinus bellus:
- Smith’s vole bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Olive montane mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Mole-like rice tenrec bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Madagascan large free-tailed bat bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Jackson’s soft-furred mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Brazilian slender opossum bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Djoongari bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Woolley’s false antechinus bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Haggard’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Fawn antechinus
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Fawn antechinus:
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat with a size of 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Handley’s slender opossum with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Akodon spegazzinii with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed dunnart with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Snow-footed Oldfield mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Gleaning mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan water shrew with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pocock’s highland rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Fawn antechinus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (10) as a Fawn antechinus:
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Fawn antechinus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Fawn antechinus:
- Laxmann’s shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Ningbing false antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Marsh rice rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years
- Common opossum with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Swamp antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Australian swamp rat with an average maximal age of 2.42 years
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Tome’s spiny rat with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Common shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Norway lemming with an average maximal age of 2 years