It is hard to guess what a Northern gracile opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern gracile opossum (Gracilinanus marica) on average weights 23 grams (0.05 lbs).
The Northern gracile opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Gracilinanus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.9 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Northern gracile opossums have 5 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 northern gracile opossum (Gracilinanus marica) is a species of opossum in the family Didelphidae. It is found in Colombia and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Animals of the same family as a Northern gracile opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum with a weight of 246 grams
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with a weight of 61 grams
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with a weight of 93 grams
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with a weight of 36 grams
- Big-eared opossum bringing 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs) to the scale
- Southern red-sided opossum with a weight of 48 grams
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Delicate slender opossum with a weight of 15 grams
- Gray slender opossum with a weight of 54 grams
- Handley’s slender opossum with a weight of 30 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern gracile opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Gracilinanus marica:
- Indian hairy-footed gerbil bringing 26 grams to the scale
- True’s vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Sonoran harvest mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- White-lined broad-nosed bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Nigerian free-tailed bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys destructor bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Steppe field mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Wagner’s gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Long-tongued fruit bat bringing 21 grams to the scale
- Parantechinus bilarni bringing 23 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Northern gracile opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern gracile opossum:
- Malayan water shrew with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Malagasy mouse-eared bat with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hispid pocket mouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Peromyscus maniculatus with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yucatan deer mouse with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bornean water shrew with a size of 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western chestnut mouse with a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Northern gracile opossum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Northern gracile opossum: