It is hard to guess what a Heavy-browed mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Heavy-browed mouse opossum (Marmosa andersoni) on average weights 47 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Heavy-browed mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Marmosa). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 48.9 cm (1′ 8″).
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 heavy-browed mouse opossum (Marmosa andersoni), or Anderson’s mouse opossum, is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is endemic to a restricted range in southern Peru. This opossum inhabits forests; it is nocturnal and probably arboreal.
Animals of the same family as a Heavy-browed mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Northern three-striped opossum with a weight of 19 grams
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with a weight of 93 grams
- Chacoan pygmy opossum with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- Panama slender opossum with a weight of 29 grams
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a weight of 37 grams
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 15 grams
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a weight of 26 grams
- Wood sprite gracile opossum with a weight of 18 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Heavy-browed mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Marmosa andersoni:
- Nayarit mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Greater big-footed mouse bringing 55 grams to the scale
- Large Japanese field mouse bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Cursor grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Least groove-toothed swamp rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Defua rat bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Wolffsohn’s leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Hartwig’s soft-furred mouse bringing 38 grams to the scale
- Musso’s fish-eating rat bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Jamaican fruit bat bringing 42 grams to the scale