It is hard to guess what a Ooldea dunnart weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Ooldea dunnart (Sminthopsis ooldea) on average weights 12 grams (0.03 lbs).
The Ooldea dunnart is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Sminthopsis). They can live for up to 3 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.5 cm (0′ 4″). Usually, Ooldea dunnarts have 7 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 Ooldea dunnart (Sminthopsis ooldea), also called Troughton’s dunnart after the person who found the species, is an Australian marsupial similar to the hairy-footed dunnart. It is greyish-yellow on its upper body and white on the underside with dark patches on its crown, forehead and in front of the eyes, and a pink thinly furred carrot shaped tail. Its total length is 115–173 mm; its average body length is 55–80 mm with a tail of 60–93 mm. Its ear length is 14–17 mm. This dunnart weighs between 10 and 18 grams.
Animals of the same family as a Ooldea dunnart
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Long-nosed dasyure with a weight of 52 grams
- White-tailed dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Carpentarian dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a weight of 35 grams
- Three-striped dasyure with a weight of 223 grams
- Long-tailed dunnart with a weight of 18 grams
- Hairy-footed dunnart with a weight of 15 grams
- Ningbing false antechinus with a weight of 20 grams
- Southern ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Paucident planigale with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Ooldea dunnart
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sminthopsis ooldea:
- Pleasant gerbil bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Peters’s wrinkle-lipped bat bringing 11 grams to the scale
- Cape hairy bat bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Short-nosed harvest mouse bringing 12 grams to the scale
- Montane white-toothed shrew bringing 14 grams to the scale
- Tailed tailless bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Smaller horseshoe bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- African sheath-tailed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Surat serotine bringing 13 grams to the scale
- Peters’s mouse bringing 11 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Ooldea dunnart
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Ooldea dunnart:
- Steppe polecat
- Red-tailed phascogale
- Stripe-faced dunnart
- Richardson’s ground squirrel
- Common opossum
- Gray short-tailed opossum
- Stolička’s mountain vole
- Mediterranean water shrew
- Sakhalin vole
- Long-tailed planigale
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Ooldea dunnart
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Ooldea dunnart:
- Four-striped grass mouse with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Japanese shrew mole with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Acacia rat with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Golden mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Etruscan shrew with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Parantechinus bilarni with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Little red kaluta with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Bicolored shrew with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Winter white dwarf hamster with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Black myotis with an average maximal age of 3.5 years