It is hard to guess what a Sminthopsis laniger weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Sminthopsis laniger (Sminthopsis laniger) on average weights 26 grams (0.06 lbs).
The Sminthopsis laniger is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Sminthopsis). They can live for up to 3.25 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.5 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Sminthopsis lanigers can have babies 1 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.
Animals of the same family as a Sminthopsis laniger
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Black-tailed dasyure with a weight of 38 grams
- Kangaroo Island dunnart with a weight of 22 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure with a weight of 38 grams
- Little long-tailed dunnart with a weight of 14 grams
- Grey-bellied dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Dusky antechinus with a weight of 62 grams
- Southern ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Brown antechinus with a weight of 29 grams
- Cinnamon antechinus with a weight of 71 grams
- Long-tailed dunnart with a weight of 18 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Sminthopsis laniger
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sminthopsis laniger:
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Lesser tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Pacific jumping mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Oligoryzomys andinus bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Long-tailed pygmy possum bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Nigerian shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Kultarr bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Eastern false pipistrelle bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Anderson’s gerbil bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Aberdare mole shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Sminthopsis laniger
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Sminthopsis laniger:
- Cliff chipmunk
- Grey red-backed vole
- Great Balkhan mouse-like hamster
- Dusky slender opossum
- Asia Minor ground squirrel
- Zarudny’s rock shrew
- Townsend’s vole
- Siberian large-toothed shrew
- Mongolian gerbil
- Coypu
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Sminthopsis laniger
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Sminthopsis laniger:
- Northern quoll with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Coast mole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Siberian flying squirrel with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Black myotis with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Vinogradov’s jird with an average maximal age of 3.33 years
- Greater white-toothed shrew with an average maximal age of 3.17 years
- Southern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Northern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Northern short-tailed shrew with an average maximal age of 2.75 years