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How much does a Stripe-faced dunnart weight?

It is hard to guess what a Stripe-faced dunnart weights. But we have the answer:

An adult Stripe-faced dunnart (Sminthopsis macroura) on average weights 24 grams (0.05 lbs).

The Stripe-faced dunnart is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Sminthopsis). They can live for up to 4.83 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.5 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Stripe-faced dunnarts can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 7.

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 average adult weight of a Stripe-faced dunnart is 24 grams (0.05 lbs)

The striped-faced dunnart (Sminthopsis macroura) is a small, Australian, nocturnal, “marsupial mouse,” part of the family Dasyuridae. The species’ distribution occurs throughout much of inland central and northern Australia, occupying a range of arid and semi-arid habitats.While the species has a broad distribution range, it has been declining across much of Australia, including the western region of New South Wales (NSW). This is due to several threatening processes, primarily habitat degradation.This has led to the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage listing the species as ‘vulnerable’. The species is not listed on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act). The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species list the species as of ‘least concern’.Recent genetic studies have discovered that this dunnart species is in fact three distinct species that over several million years diverged from each other. However, because they are difficult to distinguish, they tend to be treated as a single species.The three subspecies are as follows:Sminthopsis macroura macroura in central, eastern, and western AustraliaS.m. stalkeri in central northern AustraliaS.m. froggatti in the Kimberley region

Animals of the same family as a Stripe-faced dunnart

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Animals with the same weight as a Stripe-faced dunnart

As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sminthopsis macroura:

Animals with the same litter size as a Stripe-faced dunnart

Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Stripe-faced dunnart:

Animals with the same life expectancy as a Stripe-faced dunnart

Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Stripe-faced dunnart: