It is hard to guess what a Little long-tailed dunnart weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Little long-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis dolichura) on average weights 14 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Little long-tailed dunnart is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Sminthopsis). They can live for up to 3.17 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.2 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Little long-tailed dunnarts have 7 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 Little long-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis dolichura) is a dunnart that was, along with Gilbert’s dunnart, described in 1984. The length from snout to tail is 150–200 mm of which head to anus is 65–50 mm and tail 85–105 mm long. Hind foot size is 16–17 mm, ear length of 17–19 mm and with a weight of 10-20 g.
Animals of the same family as a Little long-tailed dunnart
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Sarcophilus laniarius bringing 8.35 kilos (18.41 lbs) to the scale
- Short-furred dasyure with a weight of 161 grams
- Red-tailed phascogale with a weight of 43 grams
- Wongai ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Narrow-nosed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
- Little red kaluta with a weight of 32 grams
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a weight of 35 grams
- Hairy-footed dunnart with a weight of 15 grams
- Grey-bellied dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a weight of 100 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Little long-tailed dunnart
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sminthopsis dolichura:
- Gray short-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
- Little Indian field mouse bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Long-clawed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Microryzomys minutus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Luzon fruit bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Tickell’s bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Asiatic short-tailed shrew bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Microryzomys altissimus bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Flat-skulled shrew bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Pocketed free-tailed bat bringing 15 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Little long-tailed dunnart
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Little long-tailed dunnart:
- Lesser bandicoot rat
- Laxmann’s shrew
- Fat-tailed dunnart
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum
- Vinogradov’s jird
- Swamp antechinus
- Little ground squirrel
- Taiga shrew
- Stolička’s mountain vole
- Common planigale
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Little long-tailed dunnart
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Little long-tailed dunnart:
- Broad-footed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Sandstone false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Bower’s white-toothed rat with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Small Japanese mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Southwestern myotis with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Lesser white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Japanese shrew mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Lowland streaked tenrec with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Star-nosed mole with an average maximal age of 3 years