It is hard to guess what a Ningbing false antechinus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ningbing false antechinus (Pseudantechinus ningbing) on average weights 20 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Ningbing false antechinus is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Pseudantechinus). They can live for up to 2 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 60.3 cm (2′ 0″). Usually, Ningbing false antechinuss have 4 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 Ningbing false antechinus (Pseudantechinus ningbing), also known as the Ningbing pseudantechinus, is a small species of carnivorous marsupial found in north-western Australia. It is locally common throughout the Kimberley region of Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Animals of the same family as a Ningbing false antechinus
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Northern quoll with a weight of 477 grams
- Eastern quoll bringing 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) to the scale
- Sandstone false antechinus with a weight of 23 grams
- Long-tailed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
- Julia Creek dunnart with a weight of 55 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure with a weight of 38 grams
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with a weight of 124 grams
- Sandhill dunnart with a weight of 33 grams
- Three-striped dasyure with a weight of 223 grams
- Brush-tailed phascogale with a weight of 193 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ningbing false antechinus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudantechinus ningbing:
- Morgan’s gerbil mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Niobe’s shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Savanna path shrew bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Lesser false vampire bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Blackish white-toothed shrew bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 19 grams to the scale
- Desert dormouse bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Shaggy bat bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Forrest’s mouse bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Northern short-tailed shrew bringing 18 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Ningbing false antechinus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Ningbing false antechinus:
- Small five-toed jerboa
- Red-tailed chipmunk
- Senegal gerbil
- Eastern cottontail
- Visayan warty pig
- Turkestan rat
- Marsh rice rat
- New Holland mouse
- Lesser short-tailed gerbil
- Hazel dormouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Ningbing false antechinus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Ningbing false antechinus:
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Cinereus shrew with an average maximal age of 1.92 years
- Dusky antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Honey possum with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Feather-tailed possum with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- McIlhenny’s four-eyed opossum with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Norway lemming with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Cinnamon antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Mediterranean water shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years