It is hard to guess what a Wongai ningaui weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Wongai ningaui (Ningaui ridei) on average weights 9 grams (0.02 lbs).
The Wongai ningaui is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Ningaui). They can live for up to 2 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Wongai ningauis can have babies 2 times per year with a litter size of 5.
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.
Wongai ningaui, a common name of Ningaui ridei, is a tiny carnivorous marsupial native to the arid open grasslands of inland Australia. Their diet is mainly small insects, and occasionally larger prey such as spiders, grasshoppers and cockroaches, which they forage for at the ground and in clumps of spinifex. They have long and untidy fur, grey or gingery brown with longer black hairs, small ears, a narrow muzzle, and possess a partially prehensile tail and feet that allow them to climb. The population occurs sparsely across a wide area and common in favourable habitat, especially in years of good rainfall. Ningaui ridei was first described in 1975, one of two species of a new genus discovered amongst the poorly known mammals of the western regions of Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Wongai ningaui
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Common planigale with a weight of 12 grams
- Woolley’s false antechinus with a weight of 43 grams
- Tasmanian devil bringing 8.2 kilos (18.08 lbs) to the scale
- Kowari with a weight of 112 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with a weight of 52 grams
- Atherton antechinus with a weight of 76 grams
- Stripe-faced dunnart with a weight of 24 grams
- Cinnamon antechinus with a weight of 71 grams
- Long-tailed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
- Antechinus wilhelmina with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
Animals with the same weight as a Wongai ningaui
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Ningaui ridei:
- Lesser long-tailed shrew tenrec bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Northern bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- San Joaquin pocket mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Bicolored shrew bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Western pebble-mound mouse bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Little free-tailed bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
- Pallas’s long-tongued bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Alpine shrew bringing 8 grams to the scale
- Dark-winged lesser house bat bringing 9 grams to the scale
- Northern bat bringing 10 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Wongai ningaui
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Wongai ningaui:
- Middendorf’s vole
- Edible dormouse
- Montane shrew
- Southern red-backed vole
- Tundra vole
- Kultarr
- Natal multimammate mouse
- Lorrain dormouse
- Woosnam’s broad-headed mouse
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Wongai ningaui
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Wongai ningaui:
- Fawn antechinus with an average maximal age of 2.25 years
- Dusky antechinus with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Pilbara ningaui with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Aegialomys galapagoensis with an average maximal age of 1.67 years
- Campbell’s dwarf hamster with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- North American least shrew with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 1.75 years
- Long-tailed giant rat with an average maximal age of 2 years
- Mediterranean water shrew with an average maximal age of 2 years