It is hard to guess what a Woolly mouse opossum weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Woolly mouse opossum (Micoureus demerarae) on average weights 107 grams (0.24 lbs).
The Woolly mouse opossum is from the family Didelphidae (genus: Micoureus). When reaching adult age, they grow up to 16.8 cm (0′ 7″). Usually, Woolly mouse opossums have 6 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.
The woolly mouse opossum or long-furred woolly mouse opossum (Marmosa demerarae), known locally as the cuíca, is a South American marsupial of the family Didelphidae. Its range includes central Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and northern Brazil. It was formerly assigned to the genus Micoureus, which was made a subgenus of Marmosa in 2009.It generally lives in tropical, humid forest below 1,200 meter elevation as in the Andes and surrounding lowlands. It is often found on plantations or other disturbed areas as well as evergreen forests.
Animals of the same family as a Woolly mouse opossum
We found other animals of the Didelphidae family:
- Marajó short-tailed opossum with a size of 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum with a weight of 93 grams
- Northern red-sided opossum with a weight of 79 grams
- Water opossum with a weight of 977 grams
- Heavy-browed mouse opossum with a weight of 47 grams
- Patagonian opossum with a weight of 78 grams
- Agile gracile opossum with a weight of 22 grams
- Guajira mouse opossum with a weight of 46 grams
- Southern red-sided opossum with a weight of 48 grams
- Sepia short-tailed opossum with a weight of 36 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Woolly mouse opossum
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Micoureus demerarae:
- Buller’s chipmunk bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Roman mole bringing 92 grams to the scale
- African marsh rat bringing 128 grams to the scale
- Owl’s spiny rat bringing 114 grams to the scale
- Amazon dwarf squirrel bringing 92 grams to the scale
- Mazama pocket gopher bringing 93 grams to the scale
- Malayan mountain spiny rat bringing 90 grams to the scale
- White-tailed antelope squirrel bringing 104 grams to the scale
- Western dwarf squirrel bringing 120 grams to the scale
- Isarog shrew-rat bringing 122 grams to the scale
Animals with the same size as a Woolly mouse opossum
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Woolly mouse opossum:
- European ground squirrel with a size of 19.8 cm (0′ 8″)
- Slender rat with a size of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Little woolly mouse opossum with a size of 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dorothy’s slender opossum with a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Large-toothed hairy-tailed rat with a size of 19.5 cm (0′ 8″)
- American pika with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Malayan field rat with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Alpine pika with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Stephen’s woodrat with a size of 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- New Guinean rat with a size of 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Woolly mouse opossum
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Woolly mouse opossum: