It is hard to guess what a Gray four-eyed opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Gray four-eyed opossum (Philander opossum) on average weights 426 grams (0.94 lbs).
The Gray four-eyed opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Philander). They can live for up to 3.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 26.5 cm (0′ 11″). On average, Gray four-eyed opossums can have babies 3 times per year with a litter size of 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.
The gray four-eyed opossum (Philander opossum) is an opossum species from Central and South America, ranging from southern Mexico to Peru, Bolivia and southwestern Brazil, at altitudes from sea level to 1600 m, but generally below 1,000 metres (3,300 ft). Its habitats include primary, secondary and disturbed forest. It is one of many opossum species in the order Didelphimorphia and the family Didelphidae.
Animals of the same family as a Gray four-eyed opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 15 grams
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum with a weight of 246 grams
- Brown four-eyed opossum with a weight of 365 grams
- McIlhenny’s four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Bushy-tailed opossum with a weight of 114 grams
- Black-shouldered opossum with a weight of 258 grams
- Agile gracile opossum with a weight of 22 grams
- One-striped opossum with a weight of 55 grams
- Wood sprite gracile opossum with a weight of 18 grams
- Lutrine opossum with a weight of 556 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Gray four-eyed opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Philander opossum:
- Desert hedgehog bringing 352 grams to the scale
- Southern Amazon red squirrel bringing 403 grams to the scale
- Gray-backed sportive lemur bringing 506 grams to the scale
- Moluccan naked-backed fruit bat bringing 465 grams to the scale
- Weyland ringtail possum bringing 456 grams to the scale
- Colombian soft-furred spiny rat bringing 394 grams to the scale
- Sunda flying fox bringing 466 grams to the scale
- Allegheny woodrat bringing 447 grams to the scale
- Common yellow-toothed cavy bringing 387 grams to the scale
- Bagobo rat bringing 395 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Gray four-eyed opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Gray four-eyed opossum:
- Mountain weasel with a size of 24.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Gunnison’s prairie dog with a size of 27.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Isabel naked-tailed rat with a size of 27 cm (0′ 11″)
- Ashy-headed flying fox with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Great Key Island giant rat with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Eastern spotted skunk with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Magellanic tuco-tuco with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Sinnamary brush-tailed rat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- White-tailed prairie dog with a size of 30.7 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Gray four-eyed opossum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Gray four-eyed opossum:
- Silky mouse
- Kemp’s gerbil
- Lesser Egyptian gerbil
- Merriam’s chipmunk
- Great Basin pocket mouse
- Rudd’s mouse
- Large Japanese field mouse
- Groundhog
- Altai mole
- Giant kangaroo rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Gray four-eyed opossum
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Gray four-eyed opossum:
- Smith’s vole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Yellow-footed antechinus with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Japanese shrew mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Pallas’s pika with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Star-nosed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- North African elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Parantechinus bilarni with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Striped field mouse with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Günther’s vole with an average maximal age of 3.83 years
- Raffray’s bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3.25 years