It is hard to guess what a Western barred bandicoot weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville) on average weights 230 grams (0.51 lbs).
The Western barred bandicoot is from the family Peramelidae (genus: Perameles). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 30 cm (1′ 0″). Usually, Western barred bandicoots have 2 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 Western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville), also known as the Marl, is a small species of bandicoot found in Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Western barred bandicoot
We found other animals of the Peramelidae family:
- Golden bandicoot with a weight of 425 grams
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot with a weight of 220 grams
- Eastern barred bandicoot with a weight of 903 grams
- Desert bandicoot with a weight of 499 grams
- Southern brown bandicoot with a weight of 825 grams
- Northern brown bandicoot bringing 1.51 kilos (3.33 lbs) to the scale
- Lesser bilby with a weight of 364 grams
- Long-nosed bandicoot with a weight of 720 grams
- Greater bilby bringing 1.23 kilos (2.71 lbs) to the scale
Animals with the same weight as a Western barred bandicoot
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Perameles bougainville:
- Felou gundi bringing 205 grams to the scale
- Mentawai three-striped squirrel bringing 241 grams to the scale
- Pteropus brunneus bringing 200 grams to the scale
- White-throated woodrat bringing 208 grams to the scale
- Smoky flying squirrel bringing 251 grams to the scale
- Large mosaic-tailed rat bringing 209 grams to the scale
- Particolored flying squirrel bringing 255 grams to the scale
- Chinese zokor bringing 256 grams to the scale
- Cooper’s mountain squirrel bringing 250 grams to the scale
- Western naked-backed fruit bat bringing 226 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Western barred bandicoot
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Western barred bandicoot:
- Eastern woolly lemur with a size of 27.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Gambian mongoose with a size of 35 cm (1′ 2″)
- Mongoose lemur with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Striped polecat with a size of 33.5 cm (1′ 2″)
- Weyland ringtail possum with a size of 31 cm (1′ 1″)
- Long-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Eastern barred bandicoot with a size of 32.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Pygmy rabbit with a size of 26.5 cm (0′ 11″)
- Mountain cottontail with a size of 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Reclusive ringtail possum with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Western barred bandicoot
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (2) as a Western barred bandicoot: