It is hard to guess what a Three-striped dasyure weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Three-striped dasyure (Myoictis melas) on average weights 223 grams (0.49 lbs).
The Three-striped dasyure is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Myoictis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 19.1 cm (0′ 8″).
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 three-striped dasyure (Myoictis melas) is a member of the order Dasyuromorphia. This marsupial carnivore lives in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Animals of the same family as a Three-striped dasyure
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Stripe-faced dunnart with a weight of 24 grams
- New Guinean planigale with a weight of 14 grams
- Yellow-footed antechinus with a weight of 44 grams
- Woolley’s false antechinus with a weight of 43 grams
- Dusky antechinus with a weight of 62 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with a weight of 52 grams
- Sandstone false antechinus with a weight of 23 grams
- Ningbing false antechinus with a weight of 20 grams
- Fawn antechinus with a weight of 38 grams
- Wongai ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Three-striped dasyure
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Myoictis melas:
- Sierra Madre ground squirrel bringing 207 grams to the scale
- Mira climbing rat bringing 184 grams to the scale
- Large New Guinea spiny rat bringing 194 grams to the scale
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum bringing 246 grams to the scale
- Dusky bushbaby bringing 213 grams to the scale
- Western naked-backed fruit bat bringing 226 grams to the scale
- Samar squirrel bringing 225 grams to the scale
- Maule tuco-tuco bringing 235 grams to the scale
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat bringing 260 grams to the scale
- Ashy chinchilla rat bringing 194 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Three-striped dasyure
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Three-striped dasyure:
- Douglas squirrel with a size of 19.1 cm (0′ 8″)
- Stoat with a size of 21.6 cm (0′ 9″)
- Blazed Luzon shrew-rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- Hispid cotton rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel with a size of 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Big-eared flying fox with a size of 21.1 cm (0′ 9″)
- Plateau pika with a size of 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Attwater’s pocket gopher with a size of 15.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Nimba otter shrew with a size of 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Slender squirrel with a size of 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)