It is hard to guess what a Kultarr weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Kultarr (Antechinomys laniger) on average weights 25 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Kultarr is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Antechinomys). They can live for up to 3.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 5.8 cm (0′ 3″). On average, Kultarrs can have babies 1 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 kultarr (Antechinomys laniger) (also called the “jerboa-marsupial”) is a small insectivorous nocturnal marsupial inhabiting the arid interior of Australia. Preferred habitat includes stony deserts, shrubland, woodland, grassland and open plains. The kultarr has a range of adaptations to help cope with Australia’s harsh arid environment including torpor similar to hibernation that helps conserve energy. The species has declined across its former range since European settlement due to changes in land management practices and introduced predators.
Animals of the same family as a Kultarr
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Woolley’s false antechinus with a weight of 43 grams
- Sandstone false antechinus with a weight of 23 grams
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with a weight of 36 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 53 grams
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Sandhill dunnart with a weight of 33 grams
- Julia Creek dunnart with a weight of 55 grams
- Southern ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 109 grams
- Western quoll bringing 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Kultarr
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Antechinomys laniger:
- Eastern heather vole bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Rümmler’s brush mouse bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Abrothrix lanosus bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Wrinkle-faced bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Least gerbil bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Sminthopsis laniger bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Monito del monte bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed pygmy possum bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Louise’s spiny mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Western shrew mouse bringing 21 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Kultarr
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Kultarr:
- Black rat
- Small vesper mouse
- Wood lemming
- Townsend’s vole
- Long-tailed vole
- Asia Minor ground squirrel
- Meadow vole
- Dalton’s mouse
- Wyoming ground squirrel
- Dusky field rat
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Kultarr
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Kultarr:
- Small Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Siberian flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Brown antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Vinogradov’s jird with an average maximal age of 3.33 years
- Southwestern water vole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Bush rat with an average maximal age of 3.42 years
- Red-tailed phascogale with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Eastern woodrat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Dibatag with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Arctic lemming with an average maximal age of 3.75 years