It is hard to guess what a Kowari weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Kowari (Dasycercus byrnei) on average weights 112 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Kowari is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Dasycercus). They can live for up to 7 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 15.8 cm (0′ 7″). On average, Kowaris can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 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.
The kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei), also known as the brush-tailed marsupial rat, Kayer rat, Byrne’s crest-tailed marsupial rat, bushy-tailed marsupial rat and kawiri, is a small carnivorous marsupial native to the dry grasslands and deserts of central Australia. It is monotypical in its genus.
Animals of the same family as a Kowari
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with a weight of 124 grams
- Long-tailed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
- White-footed dunnart with a weight of 24 grams
- Three-striped dasyure with a weight of 223 grams
- Sandhill dunnart with a weight of 33 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with a weight of 54 grams
- Slender-tailed dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Yellow-footed antechinus with a weight of 44 grams
- Swamp antechinus with a weight of 53 grams
- Northern quoll with a weight of 477 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Kowari
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dasycercus byrnei:
- Blick’s grass rat bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Red-cheeked flying squirrel bringing 118 grams to the scale
- Major’s tufted-tailed rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Taiga vole bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Dobson’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 121 grams to the scale
- Island tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Shaw’s jird bringing 90 grams to the scale
- Tristram’s jird bringing 112 grams to the scale
- African grass rat bringing 95 grams to the scale
- Sloggett’s vlei rat bringing 106 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Kowari
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Kowari:
- Kimberley rock rat with a size of 14.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Perote ground squirrel with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Van Deusen’s rat with a size of 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Asian garden dormouse with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec with a size of 15 cm (0′ 6″)
- San Quintin kangaroo rat with a size of 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Slender treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Southern African vlei rat with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Isarog striped shrew-rat with a size of 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Kowari
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Kowari:
- Common degu
- Fat-tailed false antechinus
- Mearns’s pouched mouse
- Montane vole
- Olive grass mouse
- Star-nosed mole
- White-tailed prairie dog
- Cape mole-rat
- Euphrates jerboa
- Water vole (North America)
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Kowari
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Kowari:
- Tasmanian devil with an average maximal age of 8.17 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Little pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 8.25 years
- Gray dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Prevost’s squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.67 years
- American pika with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Spectral bat with an average maximal age of 6.5 years
- Jamaican coney with an average maximal age of 8.25 years
- Plains pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 7.17 years