It is hard to guess what a Long-tailed planigale weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Long-tailed planigale (Planigale ingrami) on average weights 6 grams (0.01 lbs).
The Long-tailed planigale is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Planigale). They can live for up to 1.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30 cm (1′ 0″). On average, Long-tailed planigales can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 7.
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-tailed planigale (Planigale ingrami), also known as Ingram’s planigale or the northern planigale, is the smallest of all marsupials, and one of the smallest of all mammals. It is rarely seen but is a quite common inhabitant of the blacksoil plains, clay-soiled woodlands, and seasonally flooded grasslands of Australia’s Top End.
Animals of the same family as a Long-tailed planigale
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- White-footed dunnart with a weight of 24 grams
- Yellow-footed antechinus with a weight of 44 grams
- Chestnut dunnart with a weight of 16 grams
- Habbema dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Fat-tailed dunnart with a weight of 16 grams
- Swamp antechinus with a weight of 53 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with a weight of 52 grams
- Common planigale with a weight of 12 grams
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a weight of 100 grams
- Cinnamon antechinus with a weight of 71 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Long-tailed planigale
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Planigale ingrami:
- Wagner’s mustached bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Schlieffen’s bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Raffray’s sheath-tailed bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Rendall’s serotine bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Allen’s spotted bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Yellow-lipped bat bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Yuma myotis bringing 5 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket mouse bringing 6 grams to the scale
- Daubenton’s bat bringing 7 grams to the scale
- Trinidadian funnel-eared bat bringing 6 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Long-tailed planigale
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Long-tailed planigale:
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat
- Gray short-tailed opossum
- Northern Idaho ground squirrel
- Long-tailed ground squirrel
- European hamster
- Southern ningaui
- Stolička’s mountain vole
- Washington ground squirrel
- Lutrine opossum
- Arctic fox
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Long-tailed planigale
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Long-tailed planigale:
- Cotton mouse with an average maximal age of 1.25 years
- Crowned shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years
- Himalayan mole with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Eastern rock elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 1.08 years
- Long-clawed shrew with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Southern marsupial mole with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Western harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Yellow-sided opossum with an average maximal age of 1 years
- Townsend’s mole with an average maximal age of 1.5 years
- Myosorex varius with an average maximal age of 1 years