It is hard to guess what a Paucident planigale weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Paucident planigale (Planigale gilesi) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Paucident planigale is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Planigale). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30 cm (1′ 0″). On average, Paucident planigales can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 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 paucident planigale (Planigale gilesi), also known as Giles’ planigale, is a very small species of carnivorous marsupial of the family Dasyuridae.
Animals of the same family as a Paucident planigale
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Little long-tailed dunnart with a weight of 14 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure with a weight of 38 grams
- New Guinean quoll with a weight of 611 grams
- Tasmanian devil bringing 8.2 kilos (18.08 lbs) to the scale
- Julia Creek dunnart with a weight of 55 grams
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart with a weight of 11 grams
- Dibbler with a weight of 72 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 53 grams
- Swamp antechinus with a weight of 53 grams
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with a weight of 36 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Paucident planigale
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Planigale gilesi:
- Common bent-wing bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Pygmy round-eared bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Spurrell’s free-tailed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Lesser long-tongued bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Large rufous horseshoe bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Northern broad-nosed bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Schneider’s leaf-nosed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Little free-tailed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Bushveld horseshoe bat bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Noack’s roundleaf bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Paucident planigale
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Paucident planigale:
- Wyoming ground squirrel
- Northern grass mouse
- Tristram’s jird
- Soft-furred rat
- New Guinean rat
- Siberian large-toothed shrew
- Eastern spotted skunk
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart
- Large vesper mouse
- Gray marmot
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Paucident planigale
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Paucident planigale:
- Guyenne spiny rat with an average maximal age of 4.75 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- White-tailed antelope squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- Common sheath-tailed bat with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Golden-rumped elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Western quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years
- European water vole with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Aders’s duiker with an average maximal age of 4 years
- White-tailed rat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Saharan striped polecat with an average maximal age of 5 years