It is hard to guess what a Handley’s slender opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Handley’s slender opossum (Marmosops handleyi) on average weights 30 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Handley’s slender opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Marmosops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11.3 cm (0′ 5″).
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.
Handley’s slender opossum (Marmosops handleyi) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is endemic to Colombia.
Animals of the same family as a Handley’s slender opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with a weight of 93 grams
- McIlhenny’s four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Anderson’s four-eyed opossum with a weight of 324 grams
- Patagonian opossum with a weight of 78 grams
- Southern three-striped opossum with a weight of 112 grams
- Wood sprite gracile opossum with a weight of 18 grams
- Brown four-eyed opossum with a weight of 365 grams
- Lutrine opossum with a weight of 556 grams
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a weight of 37 grams
- Dusky slender opossum with a weight of 46 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Handley’s slender opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Marmosops handleyi:
- Common vole bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix jelskii bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Northern grasshopper mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Black bonneted bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Long-eared flying mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Brazilian gracile opossum bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Mount Apo forest mouse bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Japanese grass vole bringing 29 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Handley’s slender opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Handley’s slender opossum:
- Mindanao lowland forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Marsh rice rat with a size of 13.3 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dormouse tufted-tailed rat with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Madagascan rousette with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Long-nosed caenolestid with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ammodile with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Flat-headed vole with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Plains viscacha rat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Sandhill dunnart with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan shrew with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)