It is hard to guess what a Northern three-striped opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Northern three-striped opossum (Monodelphis americana) on average weights 19 grams (0.04 lbs).
The Northern three-striped opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Monodelphis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.7 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 three-striped opossum (Monodelphis americana) is an opossum species from South America.It is endemic to Atlantic Forest ecoregions of coastal Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Northern three-striped opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Grayish mouse opossum with a weight of 48 grams
- Bishop’s slender opossum with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Heavy-browed mouse opossum with a weight of 47 grams
- Virginia opossum bringing 2.46 kilos (5.42 lbs) to the scale
- Southern red-sided opossum with a weight of 48 grams
- Brazilian slender opossum with a weight of 38 grams
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a weight of 37 grams
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 34 grams
- White-bellied fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 15 grams
- Mexican mouse opossum with a weight of 49 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Northern three-striped opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Monodelphis americana:
- Peruvian vesper mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 20 grams to the scale
- White-bellied yellow bat bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Mediterranean pine vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Maggie Taylor’s roundleaf bat bringing 16 grams to the scale
- New Holland mouse bringing 16 grams to the scale
- Bonda mastiff bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Egyptian free-tailed bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
- Bank vole bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Handley’s tailless bat bringing 17 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Northern three-striped opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Northern three-striped opossum:
- Northwestern deer mouse with a size of 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray-collared chipmunk with a size of 12.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Brazilian shrew mouse with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Salim Ali’s fruit bat with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Forest dormouse with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red tree vole with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Small pencil-tailed tree mouse with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Burt’s deer mouse with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)