It is hard to guess what a Swamp antechinus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Swamp antechinus (Antechinus minimus) on average weights 53 grams (0.12 lbs).
The Swamp antechinus is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Antechinus). They can live for up to 2 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 11 cm (0′ 5″). On average, Swamp antechinuss can have babies 1 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 swamp antechinus (Antechinus minimus), also known as the little Tasmanian marsupial mouse, is a species of shrew-like marsupial of the family Dasyuridae and as such is related to dunnarts, quolls and the Tasmanian devil.
Animals of the same family as a Swamp antechinus
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Brush-tailed phascogale with a weight of 193 grams
- Red-bellied marsupial shrew with a size of 17.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Little red kaluta with a weight of 32 grams
- Dusky antechinus with a weight of 62 grams
- Sandhill dunnart with a weight of 33 grams
- White-tailed dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Chestnut dunnart with a weight of 16 grams
- Yellow-footed antechinus with a weight of 44 grams
- Narrow-nosed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
- Sarcophilus laniarius bringing 8.35 kilos (18.41 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Swamp antechinus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Antechinus minimus:
- Hylaeamys yunganus bringing 60 grams to the scale
- Northern water rat bringing 54 grams to the scale
- Nikolaus’s mouse bringing 52 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys legatus bringing 61 grams to the scale
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Plains rat bringing 53 grams to the scale
- Shining thicket rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Ord’s kangaroo rat bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Euryoryzomys macconnelli bringing 62 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi rousette bringing 63 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Swamp antechinus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (7) as a Swamp antechinus:
- Washington ground squirrel
- Stripe-faced dunnart
- Fat-tailed dunnart
- Mediterranean water shrew
- Northern red-sided opossum
- Laxmann’s shrew
- Stolička’s mountain vole
- Tawny-bellied cotton rat
- Long-tailed ground squirrel
- Taiga shrew
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Swamp antechinus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Swamp antechinus:
- Eastern harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 2.17 years
- Tundra vole with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Hoary bat with an average maximal age of 2.08 years
- Red-cheeked dunnart with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Wongai ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 2.33 years
- Cinnamon antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Long-tailed giant rat with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Common shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years