It is hard to guess what a Striped possum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Striped possum (Dactylopsila trivirgata) on average weights 413 grams (0.91 lbs).
The Striped possum is from the family Petauridae (genus: Dactylopsila). They can live for up to 9.58 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 25.5 cm (0′ 11″). Usually, Striped possums have 1 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 striped possum or common striped possum (Dactylopsila trivirgata) is a member of the marsupial family Petauridae. The species is black with three white stripes running head to tail, and its head has white stripes that form a ‘Y’ shape. It is closely related to the sugar glider, and is similar in appearance.
Animals of the same family as a Striped possum
We found other animals of the Petauridae family:
- Tate’s triok with a weight of 252 grams
- Sugar glider with a weight of 120 grams
- Yellow-bellied glider with a weight of 568 grams
- Mahogany glider with a weight of 361 grams
- Squirrel glider with a weight of 230 grams
- Biak glider with a weight of 90 grams
- Northern glider with a weight of 278 grams
- Leadbeater’s possum with a weight of 137 grams
- Great-tailed triok with a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Long-fingered triok with a weight of 370 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Striped possum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dactylopsila trivirgata:
- White-headed marmoset bringing 342 grams to the scale
- Russian desman bringing 420 grams to the scale
- Indonesian mountain weasel bringing 466 grams to the scale
- Bunker’s woodrat bringing 375 grams to the scale
- Greater mole-rat bringing 470 grams to the scale
- Merriam’s pocket gopher bringing 419 grams to the scale
- Lesser bilby bringing 364 grams to the scale
- Greater dwarf lemur bringing 447 grams to the scale
- Ryukyu flying fox bringing 491 grams to the scale
- Cotton-top tamarin bringing 463 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Striped possum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Striped possum:
- Northern sportive lemur with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Mexican fox squirrel with a size of 28.3 cm (1′ 0″)
- Highland tuco-tuco with a size of 21.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Dinagat bushy-tailed cloud rat with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Carruther’s mountain squirrel with a size of 22.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Koslov’s pika with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat with a size of 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Cotton-top tamarin with a size of 24 cm (0′ 10″)
- Rock squirrel with a size of 27.3 cm (0′ 11″)
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose with a size of 23 cm (0′ 10″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Striped possum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (1) as a Striped possum:
- Eastern forest bat
- Lar gibbon
- Kolan vole
- Smoky pocket gopher
- Narwhal
- Western red colobus
- Northern glider
- Central American agouti
- Seba’s short-tailed bat
- Coppery titi
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Striped possum
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Striped possum:
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat with an average maximal age of 10.42 years
- Greater hedgehog tenrec with an average maximal age of 10.5 years
- Long-tailed porcupine with an average maximal age of 10.08 years
- Snowshoe hare with an average maximal age of 8 years
- White-tailed jackrabbit with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Jamaican fruit bat with an average maximal age of 10 years
- European mink with an average maximal age of 10 years
- Pallid bat with an average maximal age of 9.08 years
- Yellow-bellied marmot with an average maximal age of 8 years
- Congo rope squirrel with an average maximal age of 9.5 years