It is hard to guess what a Woolley’s false antechinus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Woolley’s false antechinus (Pseudantechinus woolleyae) on average weights 43 grams (0.09 lbs).
The Woolley’s false antechinus is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Pseudantechinus). They can live for up to 4 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 60.3 cm (2′ 0″). Usually, Woolley’s false antechinuss have 5 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.
Woolley’s false antechinus (Pseudantechinus woolleyae), also known as Woolley’s pseudantechinus, is a species of small carnivorous marsupial belonging to the family Dasyuridae. It is found in the Australian state of Western Australia, primarily in the Pilbara, Ashburton and Murchison regions.
Animals of the same family as a Woolley’s false antechinus
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Ooldea dunnart with a weight of 12 grams
- Wongai ningaui with a weight of 9 grams
- Fat-tailed dunnart with a weight of 16 grams
- Swamp antechinus with a weight of 53 grams
- Kowari with a weight of 109 grams
- Pilbara ningaui with a weight of 6 grams
- Agile antechinus with a weight of 22 grams
- White-tailed dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Atherton antechinus with a weight of 76 grams
- Three-striped dasyure with a weight of 223 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Woolley’s false antechinus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Pseudantechinus woolleyae:
- Golden spiny mouse bringing 42 grams to the scale
- Winkelmann’s mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Champion’s tree mouse bringing 50 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed phascogale bringing 43 grams to the scale
- Gleaning mouse bringing 35 grams to the scale
- Chinanteco deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Round-eared tube-nosed fruit bat bringing 48 grams to the scale
- Taiwan vole bringing 46 grams to the scale
- Mexican spiny pocket mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Diadem leaf-nosed bat bringing 46 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Woolley’s false antechinus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Woolley’s false antechinus:
- Wongai ningaui
- Javan warty pig
- Long-tailed pocket mouse
- Fat-tailed false antechinus
- Buxton’s jird
- Belding’s ground squirrel
- Least weasel
- Silent dormouse
- Bobrinski’s jerboa
- Dusky slender opossum
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Woolley’s false antechinus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Woolley’s false antechinus:
- Fat-tailed gerbil with an average maximal age of 4.33 years
- Botta’s pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Common planigale with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Yellow-faced pocket gopher with an average maximal age of 4.67 years
- Black myotis with an average maximal age of 3.5 years
- Great gerbil with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Lesser mole-rat with an average maximal age of 4.5 years
- Vinogradov’s jird with an average maximal age of 3.33 years
- Gray tree rat with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Spix’s yellow-toothed cavy with an average maximal age of 4.58 years