It is hard to guess what a Golden bandicoot weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Golden bandicoot (Isoodon auratus) on average weights 425 grams (0.94 lbs).
The Golden bandicoot is from the family Peramelidae (genus: Isoodon). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 35.5 cm (1′ 2″). Usually, Golden bandicoots have 2 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 golden bandicoot (Isoodon auratus) is a short-nosed bandicoot found in northern Australia. It is the smallest of its genus.The golden bandicoot is now a threatened species. It was once found throughout much of northwestern Australia, with even a patch on the New South Wales/South Australia border, but it is now restricted to the Kimberley region of Western Australia, and to Augustus, Barrow and Middle Islands off of Western Australia (I. auratus barrowensis) and Marchinbar Island of Northern Territory. It is distinguished from the brown bandicoots by its golden colouring and much smaller size.It averages about 35 cm (or 14 in.) in length from head to tail and weighs between 260-655g (or 9–23 oz) with an average of 310 g (11 oz). It is the smallest of the short-nosed bandicoots with a golden colour back, hence the name, finely streaked with black fur. The sides and face are a faded light rust colour, and the underbelly is pale amber. The feet are the same colour as the underbelly and have sharp claws. The species was first described in 1897 from a specimen collected near Derby, Western Australia. As with most bandicoots, the golden bandicoot has a rather long, flat, pointy nose. It is an omnivore, consuming succulents, insects, plant bulbs, and small reptiles. The golden bandicoot is nocturnal, foraging at night by digging small holes in the ground to find food.The largest golden bandicoot population lives on Barrow Island because no cats or foxes have been introduced to the island, and other populations exist on Middle, Marchinbar, Augustus Islands. Small populations on mainland Australia are located in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. The golden bandicoot once lived all throughout Central Australia, but by 1992 it had been reduced to a small area in northwest Kimberly and Arnhem Land. In 2000, it was assumed that the species was extinct on the mainland. Birds are the main threat to the species, and bandicoots must compete with rabbits for resources.
Animals of the same family as a Golden bandicoot
We found other animals of the Peramelidae family:
- Lesser bilby with a weight of 364 grams
- Southern brown bandicoot with a weight of 825 grams
- Northern brown bandicoot bringing 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs) to the scale
- Western barred bandicoot with a weight of 230 grams
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot with a weight of 220 grams
- Long-nosed bandicoot with a weight of 720 grams
- Desert bandicoot with a weight of 499 grams
- Greater bilby bringing 1.23 kilos (2.71 lbs) to the scale
- Eastern barred bandicoot with a weight of 903 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Golden bandicoot
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Isoodon auratus:
- Silvery marmoset bringing 376 grams to the scale
- White-winged flying fox bringing 343 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed giant rat bringing 349 grams to the scale
- Giant golden mole bringing 440 grams to the scale
- Greater mole-rat bringing 470 grams to the scale
- Kashmir flying squirrel bringing 510 grams to the scale
- Mutable sun squirrel bringing 390 grams to the scale
- Colburn’s tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Goya tuco-tuco bringing 400 grams to the scale
- Red bush squirrel bringing 365 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Golden bandicoot
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Golden bandicoot:
- Giant bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 37.1 cm (1′ 3″)
- Hooded skunk with a size of 30.8 cm (1′ 1″)
- Eastern lesser bamboo lemur with a size of 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Clara’s echymipera with a size of 34.1 cm (1′ 2″)
- Colombian white-faced capuchin with a size of 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Hispaniolan solenodon with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Menzies’ echymipera with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Mountain beaver with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Plush-coated ringtail possum with a size of 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- White-faced saki with a size of 34.6 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Golden bandicoot
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Golden bandicoot: