It is hard to guess what a Northern caenolestid weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern caenolestid (Caenolestes convelatus) on average weights 31 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Northern caenolestid is from the family Caenolestidae (genus: Caenolestes). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.6 cm (0′ 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 northern caenolestid (Caenolestes convelatus), also known as the blackish shrew opossum, is a shrew opossum found in Colombia and Ecuador. It is listed as Vulnerable by the IUCN.
Animals of the same family as a Northern caenolestid
We found other animals of the Caenolestidae family:
- Andean caenolestid with a weight of 47 grams
- Incan caenolestid with a weight of 23 grams
- Long-nosed caenolestid with a weight of 21 grams
- Gray-bellied caenolestid with a weight of 40 grams
- Dusky caenolestid with a weight of 29 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern caenolestid
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Caenolestes convelatus:
- Long-eared flying mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Fringe-lipped bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Molina’s grass mouse bringing 33 grams to the scale
- Dickey’s deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Nut-colored yellow bat bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Carpentarian dunnart bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Cuban fruit-eating bat bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Hispid pocket mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Handley’s slender opossum bringing 30 grams to the scale
- Brazilian gracile opossum bringing 29 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Northern caenolestid
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern caenolestid:
- Tundra vole with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Junin slender opossum with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-tailed chipmunk with a size of 12.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Golden mouse with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Malayan water shrew with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wood mouse with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Aztec mouse with a size of 11.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Asian house shrew with a size of 12.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Luzon montane forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)