While the Tasmanian devil is the largest marsupial carnivore, the planigale is one of the smallest

Planigales generally weigh <10g - that's around 1% of a devils bodyweight! #DevilFactThursDay

For clarification, I MEANT to write “the planigales are” there

There are actually 4 species of planigale in Australia, with the long-tailed planigale taking the title of smallest marsupial of all!

Pic from Menkhorst & Knight (2011)

Has been brought to my attention that I messed up my calculations by a factor of 10:

A planigale would actually come out at around 0.1% of a Tasmanian devils bodyweight!

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