It is hard to guess what a Tschudi’s slender opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Tschudi’s slender opossum (Marmosops impavidus) on average weights 41 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Tschudi’s slender opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Marmosops). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 13.1 cm (0′ 6″).
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.
Tschudi’s slender opossum (Marmosops impavidus) is an opossum species from South America, named after Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob von Tschudi. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.
Animals of the same family as a Tschudi’s slender opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Alston’s mouse opossum with a weight of 132 grams
- Handley’s slender opossum with a weight of 30 grams
- Gray slender opossum with a weight of 54 grams
- Ihering’s three-striped opossum with a weight of 112 grams
- Gray four-eyed opossum with a weight of 426 grams
- White-bellied slender opossum with a weight of 34 grams
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 34 grams
- Chacoan pygmy opossum with a size of 8.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum with a weight of 52 grams
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same weight as a Tschudi’s slender opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Marmosops impavidus:
- Dalton’s mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Buenos Aires leaf-eared mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Paraguayan fat-tailed mouse opossum bringing 34 grams to the scale
- Venezuelan fish-eating rat bringing 47 grams to the scale
- Talazac’s shrew tenrec bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Greater false vampire bat bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Fresno kangaroo rat bringing 41 grams to the scale
- Four-striped grass mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Handleyomys fuscatus bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Smith’s vole bringing 34 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Tschudi’s slender opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Tschudi’s slender opossum:
- Irenomys with a size of 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby with a size of 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- Four-striped grass mouse with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Palawan soft-furred mountain rat with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Small Japanese mole with a size of 13.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Namib brush-tailed gerbil with a size of 10.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Yellow-cheeked chipmunk with a size of 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tyler’s mouse opossum with a size of 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pygmy marmoset with a size of 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Horsfield’s tarsier with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)