It is hard to guess what a Southern three-striped opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Southern three-striped opossum (Monodelphis theresa) on average weights 112 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Southern three-striped opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Monodelphis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 8.6 cm (0′ 4″).
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 southern three-striped opossum (Monodelphis theresa) is an opossum species from South America. It is found in the Atlantic Forest region of Brazil.
Animals of the same family as a Southern three-striped opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Aceramarca gracile opossum with a weight of 20 grams
- Yellow-sided opossum with a weight of 45 grams
- Brazilian gracile opossum with a weight of 29 grams
- Junin slender opossum with a size of 11.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum with a weight of 32 grams
- Dwarf fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 20 grams
- Chacoan pygmy opossum with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Narrow-headed slender opossum with a weight of 26 grams
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a weight of 37 grams
- Southern red-sided opossum with a weight of 48 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Southern three-striped opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Monodelphis theresa:
- Bornean mountain ground squirrel bringing 130 grams to the scale
- Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Banner-tailed kangaroo rat bringing 125 grams to the scale
- Large-scaled mosaic-tailed rat bringing 117 grams to the scale
- Summit rat bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Pygmy marmoset bringing 124 grams to the scale
- White-bellied mosaic-tailed rat bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Gregarious short-tailed rat bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Yellow-haired hill rat bringing 111 grams to the scale
- Amazon dwarf squirrel bringing 92 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Southern three-striped opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Southern three-striped opossum:
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pygmy short-tailed opossum with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Mount Isarog shrew-mouse with a size of 7 cm (0′ 3″)
- Dune hairy-footed gerbil with a size of 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Eurasian water shrew with a size of 8.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Inquisitive shrew mole with a size of 7.5 cm (0′ 3″)
- Chacoan pygmy opossum with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Western mouse with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Common tube-nosed fruit bat with a size of 8.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Triaenops rufus with a size of 8.7 cm (0′ 4″)