It is hard to guess what a Tate’s woolly mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tate’s woolly mouse opossum (Micoureus paraguayanus) on average weights 112 grams (0.25 lbs).
The Tate’s woolly mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Micoureus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.8 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Tate’s woolly mouse opossums have 5 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.
Tate’s woolly mouse opossum (Marmosa paraguayana) is an omnivorous, arboreal South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae, named after American zoologist George Henry Hamilton Tate. It is native to Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. The species lives in both primary and secondary forest, including forest fragments within grassland. Insects are a major component of its diet. It was formerly assigned to the genus Micoureus, which was made a subgenus of Marmosa in 2009. While its conservation status is “least concern”, its habitat is shrinking through urbanization and conversion to agriculture over much of its range.
Animals of the same family as a Tate’s woolly mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum with a weight of 246 grams
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Patagonian opossum with a weight of 78 grams
- Handley’s slender opossum with a weight of 30 grams
- Southern red-sided opossum with a weight of 48 grams
- Alston’s mouse opossum with a weight of 132 grams
- Gray four-eyed opossum with a weight of 426 grams
- Virginia opossum bringing 2.46 kilos (5.42 lbs) to the scale
- Guajira mouse opossum with a weight of 46 grams
- Common opossum bringing 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Tate’s woolly mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Micoureus paraguayanus:
- Sage’s rock rat bringing 96 grams to the scale
- Ruwenzori otter shrew bringing 112 grams to the scale
- Mazama pocket gopher bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Franquet’s epauletted fruit bat bringing 119 grams to the scale
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew bringing 124 grams to the scale
- European water vole bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Crest-tailed mulgara bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Sulawesi harpy fruit bat bringing 116 grams to the scale
- Pará spiny tree-rat bringing 108 grams to the scale
- Kemp’s gerbil bringing 101 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Tate’s woolly mouse opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tate’s woolly mouse opossum:
- Long-nosed paramelomys with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Desert hedgehog with a size of 18.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Earless water rat with a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Indian hedgehog with a size of 18 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lowland streaked tenrec with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Texas antelope squirrel with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Striped bush squirrel with a size of 17.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Common treeshrew with a size of 18.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Soft-spined Atlantic spiny rat with a size of 19.7 cm (0′ 8″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Tate’s woolly mouse opossum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Tate’s woolly mouse opossum: