It is hard to guess what a White-eared opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) on average weights 1.03 kg (2.27 lbs).
The White-eared opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Didelphis). They can live for up to 1.67 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 36 cm (1′ 3″). On average, White-eared opossums can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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.
The white-eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) is an opossum species found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It is a terrestrial and, sometimes, arboreal animal, and a habitat generalist, living in a wide range of different habitats.For some time, this species was incorrectly known by the name D. azarae, correctly applied to the big-eared opossum. This led to azarae’s discontinuation as a species name. From 1993 until 2002, this species also included the Guianan white-eared opossum (D. imperfecta) and the Andean white-eared opossum (D. pernigra) as subspecies.It is the team mascot of Clube Náutico Capibaribe, a Brazilian football team from Recife, Pernambuco.
Animals of the same family as a White-eared opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum with a weight of 52 grams
- Long-nosed short-tailed opossum with a weight of 765 grams
- Common fat-tailed mouse opossum with a weight of 28 grams
- Northern three-striped opossum with a weight of 19 grams
- Chestnut-striped opossum with a weight of 45 grams
- Grayish mouse opossum with a weight of 47 grams
- Pinheiro’s slender opossum with a size of 10.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red mouse opossum with a weight of 63 grams
- Agile gracile opossum with a weight of 22 grams
- Black-shouldered opossum with a weight of 258 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-eared opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Didelphis albiventris:
- Northern viscacha with a weight of 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs)
- Water opossum bringing 977 grams to the scale
- Eastern quoll with a weight of 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs)
- Clara’s echymipera with a weight of 1.2 kilos (2.65 lbs)
- Plush-coated ringtail possum with a weight of 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs)
- Common opossum with a weight of 1.14 kilos (2.51 lbs)
- Black flying squirrel with a weight of 1.19 kilos (2.62 lbs)
- Large flying fox with a weight of 1.03 kilos (2.27 lbs)
- Cinereus ringtail possum bringing 977 grams to the scale
- Sunda flying lemur with a weight of 1.11 kilos (2.45 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a White-eared opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as White-eared opossum:
- New Britain water rat with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Western gray squirrel with a size of 29.4 cm (1′ 0″)
- Bengal mongoose with a size of 30.8 cm (1′ 1″)
- Sunda slow loris with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Eastern white-eared giant rat with a size of 33.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Plush-coated ringtail possum with a size of 33.3 cm (1′ 2″)
- Banded mongoose with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Ruddy mongoose with a size of 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Coppery ringtail possum with a size of 37.8 cm (1′ 3″)
- Northern olingo with a size of 41.2 cm (1′ 5″)
Animals with the same litter size as a White-eared opossum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a White-eared opossum:
- Common shrew
- Brush-tailed phascogale
- Stoat
- Mohave ground squirrel
- Greater bandicoot rat
- Muskrat
- Siberian brown lemming
- Perote ground squirrel
- Roborovski dwarf hamster
- Spotted ground squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a White-eared opossum
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a White-eared opossum:
- Atlantic bamboo rat with an average maximal age of 1.58 years
- Cinnamon antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Southern red-backed vole with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Southern red-backed vole with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Feather-tailed possum with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Robinson’s mouse opossum with an average maximal age of 2 years
- North American least shrew with an average maximal age of 1.75 years