It is hard to guess what a Long-nosed short-tailed opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-nosed short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis scalops) on average weights 765 grams (1.69 lbs).
The Long-nosed short-tailed opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Monodelphis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.9 cm (0′ 6″).
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 long-nosed short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis scalops), is an opossum species from Argentina and Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Long-nosed short-tailed opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Lutrine opossum with a weight of 556 grams
- Red mouse opossum with a weight of 63 grams
- Patagonian opossum with a weight of 78 grams
- Water opossum with a weight of 977 grams
- Bushy-tailed opossum with a weight of 114 grams
- Bishop’s slender opossum with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-sided opossum with a weight of 45 grams
- Southern red-sided opossum with a weight of 48 grams
- Sepia short-tailed opossum with a weight of 36 grams
- Bare-tailed woolly mouse opossum with a weight of 119 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-nosed short-tailed opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Monodelphis scalops:
- Brush rabbit bringing 716 grams to the scale
- Black-bearded flying fox bringing 872 grams to the scale
- Weasel sportive lemur bringing 670 grams to the scale
- Cuban solenodon bringing 806 grams to the scale
- Spectacled flying fox bringing 759 grams to the scale
- Yellow ground squirrel bringing 779 grams to the scale
- Abert’s squirrel bringing 623 grams to the scale
- Mexican prairie dog bringing 900 grams to the scale
- Peters’s squirrel bringing 650 grams to the scale
- American marten bringing 878 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Long-nosed short-tailed opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Long-nosed short-tailed opossum:
- Tsing-ling pika with a size of 15.6 cm (0′ 7″)
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Townsend’s chipmunk with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Cave nectar bat with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Smoky mouse with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Patagonian opossum with a size of 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 11.3 cm (0′ 5″)