It is hard to guess what a Gilbert’s dunnart weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gilbert’s dunnart (Sminthopsis gilberti) on average weights 19 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Gilbert’s dunnart is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Sminthopsis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.5 cm (0′ 4″).
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.
Gilbert’s dunnart (Sminthopsis gilberti) is a recently discovered dunnart, described in 1984. The length from snout to tail being 155–180 mm of which head to anus is 80–90 mm and tail 75–90 mm long. Hind foot size is 18 mm, ear length of 21 mm and with a weight of 14-25 grams.
Animals of the same family as a Gilbert’s dunnart
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Kangaroo Island dunnart with a weight of 22 grams
- Speckled dasyure with a weight of 212 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure with a weight of 38 grams
- Stripe-faced dunnart with a weight of 24 grams
- Agile antechinus with a weight of 22 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 54 grams
- Ningbing false antechinus with a weight of 20 grams
- White-tailed dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Wongai ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Three-striped dasyure with a weight of 223 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gilbert’s dunnart
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sminthopsis gilberti:
- Allen’s wood mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Parnell’s mustached bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Northern three-striped opossum bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Brazilian big-eyed bat bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Davis’s round-eared bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Mexican long-tongued bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Agile gracile opossum bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Spiny pocket mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Cape spiny mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Van Gelder’s bat bringing 22 grams to the scale