It is hard to guess what a Kowari weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei) on average weights 109 grams (0.24 lbs).
The Kowari is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Dasyuroides). 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:
- Agile antechinus with a weight of 22 grams
- Atherton antechinus with a weight of 76 grams
- Northern quoll with a weight of 477 grams
- Fawn antechinus with a weight of 38 grams
- Parantechinus bilarni with a weight of 23 grams
- Grey-bellied dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Dibbler with a weight of 72 grams
- Kangaroo Island dunnart with a weight of 22 grams
- Long-tailed dunnart with a weight of 18 grams
- Swamp antechinus with a weight of 53 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Kowari
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dasyuroides byrnei:
- Common rufous-nosed rat bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Venezuelan climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Taiga vole bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Rough-haired golden mole bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Charming climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s gerbil bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Bushy-tailed opossum bringing 114 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:
- Gray-footed chipmunk with a size of 13.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Southern marsupial mole with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Common treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Least weasel with a size of 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Washington ground squirrel with a size of 16.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Short-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Collared pika with a size of 18.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Long-nosed mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
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:
- Speckled ground squirrel
- Social vole
- Southern red-backed vole
- Common degu
- Olive grass mouse
- Long-clawed shrew
- Northern grass mouse
- American water shrew
- Coypu
- Kellen’s dormouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Kowari
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Kowari:
- Mountain degu with an average maximal age of 7.33 years
- Long-tailed weasel with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- Spectral bat with an average maximal age of 6.5 years
- European mole with an average maximal age of 7 years
- White-throated woodrat with an average maximal age of 7.67 years
- Feathertail glider with an average maximal age of 7.17 years
- Sarcophilus laniarius with an average maximal age of 8.17 years
- Least chipmunk with an average maximal age of 6.25 years
- Cuban solenodon with an average maximal age of 6.5 years
- Bahamian hutia with an average maximal age of 6 years