It is hard to guess what a Ihering’s three-striped opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ihering’s three-striped opossum (Monodelphis iheringi) on average weights 112 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Ihering’s three-striped opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Monodelphis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9 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.
Ihering’s three-striped opossum (Monodelphis iheringi), is an opossum species found in Argentina and Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Ihering’s three-striped opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum with a weight of 119 grams
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a weight of 20 grams
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a weight of 37 grams
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- Gray short-tailed opossum with a weight of 94 grams
- Anderson’s four-eyed opossum with a weight of 324 grams
- Handley’s slender opossum with a weight of 30 grams
- Grayish mouse opossum with a weight of 47 grams
- Mexican mouse opossum with a weight of 49 grams
- White-eared opossum bringing 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Ihering’s three-striped opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Monodelphis iheringi:
- Jaliscan cotton rat bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Egyptian fruit bat bringing 132 grams to the scale
- Greater spear-nosed bat bringing 91 grams to the scale
- Broad-toothed mouse bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Sooretamys bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Angoni vlei rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Texas antelope squirrel bringing 113 grams to the scale
- Siberian chipmunk bringing 94 grams to the scale
- Guinean gerbil bringing 102 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Ihering’s three-striped opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Ihering’s three-striped opossum:
- Santa Cruz mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wagner’s gerbil with a size of 8.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Pygmy tarsier with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Wandering small-eared shrew with a size of 7.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Yellow-necked mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese shrew mole with a size of 7.2 cm (0′ 3″)
- Steppe mouse with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chinese mole shrew with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Brazilian gracile opossum with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)