It is hard to guess what a Yellow-footed antechinus weights. But we have the answer:
An adult Yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes) on average weights 44 grams (0.1 lbs).
The Yellow-footed antechinus is from the family Dasyuridae (genus: Antechinus). They can live for up to 3.5 years. When reaching adult age, they grow up to 9.4 cm (0′ 4″). On average, Yellow-footed antechinuss 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 yellow-footed antechinus (Antechinus flavipes), also known as the mardo, is a shrew-like marsupial found in Australia. One notable feature of the species is its sexual behavior. The male yellow-footed antechinus engages in such frenzied mating that its immune system becomes compromised, resulting in stress related death before it is one year old.
Animals of the same family as a Yellow-footed antechinus
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart with a weight of 11 grams
- Long-tailed planigale with a weight of 6 grams
- Fat-tailed dunnart with a weight of 16 grams
- Sarcophilus laniarius bringing 8.35 kilos (18.41 lbs) to the scale
- Brown antechinus with a weight of 29 grams
- Dibbler with a weight of 72 grams
- Crest-tailed mulgara with a weight of 100 grams
- Kangaroo Island dunnart with a weight of 22 grams
- Sandstone false antechinus with a weight of 23 grams
- Brush-tailed phascogale with a weight of 193 grams
Animals with the same weight as a Yellow-footed antechinus
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Antechinus flavipes:
- Midas free-tailed bat bringing 45 grams to the scale
- Hairy-tailed bolo mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Gould’s mouse bringing 49 grams to the scale
- Nayarit mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
- Spotted bolo mouse bringing 37 grams to the scale
- Northern grass mouse bringing 44 grams to the scale
- Grey red-backed vole bringing 36 grams to the scale
- Heavy-browed mouse opossum bringing 47 grams to the scale
- El Dorado grass mouse bringing 39 grams to the scale
- Jico deer mouse bringing 40 grams to the scale
Animals with the same litter size as a Yellow-footed antechinus
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (8) as a Yellow-footed antechinus:
- White-footed dunnart
- Golden hamster
- Virginia opossum
- Eurasian least shrew
- European polecat
- Tundra shrew
- Slender-tailed dunnart
- Southern long-nosed armadillo
- Dusky antechinus
- White-tailed antelope squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Yellow-footed antechinus
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Yellow-footed antechinus:
- Ooldea dunnart with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Southern brown bandicoot with an average maximal age of 3.75 years
- Common vole with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Brazilian spiny tree-rat with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- African pygmy mouse with an average maximal age of 3.08 years
- Talas tuco-tuco with an average maximal age of 3 years
- Molina’s hog-nosed skunk with an average maximal age of 3.33 years
- Northern quoll with an average maximal age of 2.83 years
- Common planigale with an average maximal age of 4 years
- Sandstone false antechinus with an average maximal age of 3 years