It is hard to guess what a Red-cheeked dunnart weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Red-cheeked dunnart (Sminthopsis virginiae) on average weights 35 grams (0.08 lbs).
The Red-cheeked dunnart is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Sminthopsis). They can live for up to 2 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Red-cheeked dunnarts have 4 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 red-cheeked dunnart (Sminthopsis virginiae) is so called because of the distinctive red hair on its cheek. It is an Australasian marsupial. Its total length is 167–270 mm; its average body length is 80–135 mm with a tail of 87–135 mm. Ear length is 12–13 mm. Its weight varies between 18 and 75 grams. Its tail is thin and pale pink.
Animals of the same family as a Red-cheeked dunnart
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Tiger quoll bringing 3.32 kilos (7.32 lbs) to the scale
- Fawn antechinus with a weight of 38 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 54 grams
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with a weight of 124 grams
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with a weight of 36 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure with a weight of 38 grams
- Brown antechinus with a weight of 29 grams
- Southern ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 112 grams
- Paucident planigale with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Red-cheeked dunnart
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sminthopsis virginiae:
- Grey red-backed vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Incan hocicudo bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Large myotis bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Perote mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Woodland thicket rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Woodford’s fruit bat bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Japanese grass vole bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Tawny deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Lukolela swamp rat bringing 42 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Red-cheeked dunnart
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Red-cheeked dunnart:
- Pallas’s tube-nosed bat with a size of 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Common vole with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Altiplano grass mouse with a size of 9.7 cm (0′ 4″)
- Highland brush mouse with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Champion’s tree mouse with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- African wading rat with a size of 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Hairy-tailed mole with a size of 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Northern red-backed vole with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pacific jumping mouse with a size of 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Red-cheeked dunnart
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (4) as a Red-cheeked dunnart:
- Kellen’s dormouse
- Pale gerbil
- Peromyscus maniculatus
- Turkestan red pika
- African pygmy mouse
- Common vole
- Northern pocket gopher
- Culpeo
- California vole
- Woodland jumping mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Red-cheeked dunnart
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Red-cheeked dunnart:
- Mongolian gerbil with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Hoary bat with an average maximal age of 2.08 years
- Grant’s golden mole with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Wongai ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Feather-tailed possum with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Mediterranean water shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Southern red-backed vole with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Pilbara ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Silky anteater with an average maximal age of 2.25 years