It is hard to guess what a White-tailed dunnart weights. But we have the answer:
An adult White-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis granulipes) on average weights 25 grams (0.06 lbs).
The White-tailed dunnart is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Sminthopsis). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.5 cm (0′ 4″).
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-tailed dunnart (Sminthopsis granulipes), also known as the ash-grey dunnart, is a dunnart native to Australia.
Animals of the same family as a White-tailed dunnart
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Kangaroo Island dunnart with a weight of 22 grams
- Grey-bellied dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 109 grams
- Eastern quoll bringing 1.12 kilos (2.47 lbs) to the scale
- Hairy-footed dunnart with a weight of 15 grams
- Black-tailed dasyure with a weight of 38 grams
- Brown antechinus with a weight of 29 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure with a weight of 53 grams
- Woolley’s false antechinus with a weight of 43 grams
- Slender-tailed dunnart with a weight of 17 grams
Animals with the same weight as a White-tailed dunnart
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Sminthopsis granulipes:
- São Paulo grass mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Gray-tailed vole bringing 29 grams to the scale
- Bank vole bringing 20 grams to the scale
- Northern grasshopper mouse bringing 27 grams to the scale
- Red tree vole bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Van Gelder’s bat bringing 22 grams to the scale
- Olive grass mouse bringing 24 grams to the scale
- Schreber’s yellow bat bringing 26 grams to the scale
- Nigerian shrew bringing 23 grams to the scale
- Palawan pencil-tailed tree mouse bringing 28 grams to the scale