It is hard to guess what a Sandhill dunnart weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sandhill dunnart (Sminthopsis psammophila) on average weights 33 grams (0.07 lbs).
The Sandhill dunnart is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Sminthopsis). They can live for up to 5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 10.5 cm (0′ 5″). Usually, Sandhill dunnarts 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 sandhill dunnart (Sminthopsis psammophila) is a species of small carnivorous Australian marsupial of the family Dasyuridae. It is known from four scattered arid areas of Australia: near Lake Amadeus in Northern Territory, the central Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, the southwestern edge of the Great Victoria Desert in Western Australia, and at Yellabinna in South Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Sandhill dunnart
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Kangaroo Island dunnart with a weight of 22 grams
- Parantechinus bilarni with a weight of 23 grams
- Northern quoll with a weight of 477 grams
- Fat-tailed dunnart with a weight of 16 grams
- Eastern quoll bringing 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) to the scale
- Carpentarian dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Wongai ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Common planigale with a weight of 12 grams
- Tiger quoll bringing 3.32 kilos (7.32 lbs) to the scale
- White-tailed dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sandhill dunnart
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sminthopsis psammophila:
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Northwestern deer mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Cheesman’s gerbil bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Pygmy mouse lemur bringing 31 grams to the scale
- Bibimys chacoensis bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Neotropical pygmy squirrel bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Royle’s mountain vole bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Hispid hocicudo bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Cotton mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Philippine pygmy squirrel bringing 27 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Sandhill dunnart
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Sandhill dunnart:
- Gray-bellied caenolestid with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tundra vole with a size of 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Wood sprite gracile opossum with a size of 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)
- Northern hopping mouse with a size of 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mexican volcano mouse with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Chinese dormouse with a size of 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Big-eared hopping mouse with a size of 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Eastern chestnut mouse with a size of 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Himalayan striped squirrel with a size of 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Van Zyl’s golden mole with a size of 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Sandhill dunnart
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Sandhill dunnart:
- Pilbara ningaui
- Northern short-tailed shrew
- Greater long-nosed armadillo
- Long-clawed shrew
- Piebald shrew
- Star-nosed mole
- Lowland streaked tenrec
- Southern red-backed vole
- Algerian mouse
- Water vole (North America)
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Sandhill dunnart
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Sandhill dunnart:
- Common planigale with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Tiger quoll with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Meadow jumping mouse with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Spinifex hopping mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Bahamian hutia with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Long-tailed dunnart with an average maximal age of 5 years
- Long-legged myotis with an average maximal age of 4.25 years
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse with an average maximal age of 5.17 years
- Bank vole with an average maximal age of 4.83 years
- Val’s gundi with an average maximal age of 5 years