It is hard to guess what a Julia Creek dunnart weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Julia Creek dunnart (Sminthopsis douglasi) on average weights 55 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Julia Creek dunnart is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Sminthopsis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.5 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Julia Creek dunnarts have 6 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 Julia Creek dunnart (Sminthopsis douglasi) is a marsupial with a buffy brown upperside and white underside. This dunnart has a body length of 100–135 mm with a tail of 60–105 mm to make a total length of 160–240 mm. Its weight is between 40 and 70 g. The length of the hind foot is 22–24 mm. The species has a dark brown triangle colour from above and below the eye with the point at the nose, and another dark stripe on top of the skull. A healthy dunnart has a carrot-shaped tail filled with fat stores.
Animals of the same family as a Julia Creek dunnart
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a weight of 100 grams
- Sminthopsis laniger with a weight of 26 grams
- Swamp antechinus with a weight of 53 grams
- Fat-tailed dunnart with a weight of 16 grams
- Chestnut dunnart with a weight of 16 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 54 grams
- Parantechinus bilarni with a weight of 23 grams
- Speckled dasyure with a weight of 212 grams
- Bronze quoll with a weight of 896 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with a weight of 52 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Julia Creek dunnart
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sminthopsis douglasi:
- Robinson’s mouse opossum bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Himalayan striped squirrel bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Balkan snow vole bringing 56 grams to the scale
- Temchuk’s bolo mouse bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Transandinomys bolivaris bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Highland brush mouse bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Eremoryzomys bringing 60 grams to the scale
- East African little collared fruit bat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed mole bringing 51 grams to the scale
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec bringing 45 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Julia Creek dunnart
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Julia Creek dunnart:
- Fresno kangaroo rat with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Forrest’s mouse with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Savanna path shrew with a size of 8.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Somali serotine with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Shining thicket rat with a size of 11.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Santa Cruz mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Ord’s kangaroo rat with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rock vole with a size of 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Julia Creek dunnart
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Julia Creek dunnart: