It is hard to guess what a White-footed dunnart weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-footed dunnart (Sminthopsis leucopus) on average weights 24 grams (0.05 lbs).
The White-footed dunnart is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Sminthopsis). They can live for up to 2.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.5 cm (0′ 4″). On average, White-footed dunnarts can have babies 1 times per year with a litter size of 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 white-footed dunnart (Sminthopsis leucopus) is a marsupial that occurs of Tasmania and mainland Australia. It occurs along the coast and in inner Gippsland and Alpine areas up to 400 metres near Narbethong. The length from snout to tail being 140–200 mm of which head to anus is 70–110 mm and tail 70–90 mm long and with a weight of 19–27 g.
Animals of the same family as a White-footed dunnart
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Kangaroo Island dunnart with a weight of 22 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure with a weight of 38 grams
- Sminthopsis laniger with a weight of 26 grams
- Tasmanian devil bringing 8.2 kilos (18.08 lbs) to the scale
- Agile antechinus with a weight of 22 grams
- Western quoll bringing 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) to the scale
- Dibbler with a weight of 72 grams
- Sarcophilus laniarius bringing 8.35 kilos (18.41 lbs) to the scale
- Atherton antechinus with a weight of 76 grams
- New Guinean planigale with a weight of 14 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-footed dunnart
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sminthopsis leucopus:
- Pleasant bolo mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Rüppell’s broad-nosed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Cerrado mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Black bonneted bat bringing 28 grams to the scale
- Arnhem sheath-tailed bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Asian particolored bat bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Allen’s wood mouse bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Woolly dormouse bringing 25 grams to the scale
- Lesser Wilfred’s mouse bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Hildebrandt’s horseshoe bat bringing 25 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a White-footed dunnart
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (8) as a White-footed dunnart:
- Grayish mouse opossum
- White-tailed antelope squirrel
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel
- Grayish mouse opossum
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum
- Yellow-footed antechinus
- Dusky antechinus
- San Joaquin antelope squirrel
- Golden hamster
- Virginia opossum
Animals with the same life expectancy as a White-footed dunnart
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a White-footed dunnart:
- Tome’s spiny rat with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Talas tuco-tuco with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Merriam’s kangaroo rat with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Mongolian gerbil with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Swamp antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Typical striped grass mouse with an average maximal age of 2.5 years
- Common opossum with an average maximal age of 2.67 years
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with an average maximal age of 2.58 years
- Ooldea dunnart with an average maximal age of 3 years