It is hard to guess what a Feather-tailed possum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Feather-tailed possum (Distoechurus pennatus) on average weights 53 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Feather-tailed possum is from the family Acrobatidae (genus: Distoechurus). They can live for up to 2 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.7 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Feather-tailed possums have 1 babies per litter.
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 feather-tailed possum (Distoechurus pennatus) is a species of marsupial in the family Acrobatidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It is not to be confused with the feathertail glider, the only other species in the family Acrobatidae.
Animals of the same family as a Feather-tailed possum
We found other animals of the Acrobatidae family:
- Feathertail glider with a weight of 13 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Feather-tailed possum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Distoechurus pennatus:
- Typical striped grass mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Oreoryzomys bringing 60 grams to the scale
- North African elephant shrew bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Southern marsupial mole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Rupp’s mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Chestnut tree mouse bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Hylaeamys yunganus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Single-striped grass mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Northern grass mouse bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Ivory Coast rat bringing 52 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Feather-tailed possum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Feather-tailed possum:
- Elegant water shrew with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Mindanao mountain rat with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dayak fruit bat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Moss-forest rat with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- False water rat with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-toothed brush mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Sonoma chipmunk with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Antechinus wilhelmina with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Feather-tailed possum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Feather-tailed possum:
- Tailed tailless bat
- Indian hare
- Mountain cuscus
- Chacoan mara
- Sharpe’s grysbok
- Argentine brown bat
- Merriam’s pocket gopher
- Dark-winged lesser house bat
- Hawaiian monk seal
- Tibetan macaque
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Feather-tailed possum
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Feather-tailed possum:
- Cinnamon antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Eastern harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 2.17 years
- Malabar spiny dormouse with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Fawn antechinus with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Vagrant shrew with an average maximal age of 2.08 years
- Long-tailed giant rat with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Grant’s golden mole with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Common shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Red-cheeked dunnart with an average maximal age of 2 years
- McIlhenny’s four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 2.25 years