How big does a Eastern quoll get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus) reaches an average size of 33.3 cm (1′ 2″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 6.75 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 1.12 kg (2.46 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Eastern quolls have 5 babies about 1 times per year. The Eastern quoll (genus: Dasyurus) is a member of the family Dasyuridae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The eastern quoll (Dasyurus viverrinus), formerly known as the eastern native cat, is a medium-sized carnivorous dasyurid marsupial native to Australia. They are widespread and even locally common in Tasmania. They have been considered extinct on the mainland since the 1960s, however have been reintroduced back into fenced sanctuaries in 2016, and more recently into the wild in March 2018. It is one of six extant species of quolls.
Animals of the same family as a Eastern quoll
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Dusky antechinus with 8 babies per litter
- Fat-tailed dunnart with 7 babies per litter
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Woolley’s false antechinus with 5 babies per litter
- Atherton antechinus with 4 babies per litter
- Chestnut dunnart with a size of 9.2 cm (0′ 4″)
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with 5 babies per litter
- Long-nosed dasyure with a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brown antechinus with 6 babies per litter
- Southern ningaui with 7 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Eastern quoll
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Eastern quoll:
- Siberian weasel with a size of 30.6 cm (1′ 1″)
- Northern sportive lemur with a size of 28 cm (1′ 0″)
- Muskrat with a size of 27.7 cm (0′ 11″)
- Banded mongoose with a size of 36.3 cm (1′ 3″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
- Volcano rabbit with a size of 29.7 cm (1′ 0″)
- Bagobo rat with a size of 28.9 cm (1′ 0″)
- Black-bearded flying fox with a size of 28.5 cm (1′ 0″)
- Southern needle-clawed bushbaby with a size of 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Podogymnura truei with a size of 31.3 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Eastern quoll
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (5) as a Eastern quoll:
- Grey red-backed vole
- Kultarr
- Olive grass mouse
- Kowari
- Eversmann’s hamster
- Fringe-tailed gerbil
- Pilbara ningaui
- Sagebrush vole
- Christy’s dormouse
- Daurian ground squirrel
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Eastern quoll
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Eastern quoll:
- Lesser short-nosed fruit bat with an average maximal age of 8 years
- White-tailed antelope squirrel with an average maximal age of 5.75 years
- Southeastern myotis with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Sundevall’s jird with an average maximal age of 5.58 years
- Stoat with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- Numbat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Long-tailed weasel with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- Eastern barred bandicoot with an average maximal age of 5.5 years
- Tailless tenrec with an average maximal age of 6.25 years
- White-tailed rat with an average maximal age of 6 years
Animals with the same weight as a Eastern quoll
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dasyurus viverrinus:
- Chinese ferret-badger bringing 939 grams to the scale
- Black flying squirrel with a weight of 1.19 kilos (2.62 lbs)
- Screaming hairy armadillo bringing 930 grams to the scale
- Eastern cottontail with a weight of 1.21 kilos (2.67 lbs)
- Greater glider with a weight of 1.26 kilos (2.78 lbs)
- Eastern lowland olingo with a weight of 1.24 kilos (2.73 lbs)
- Collared titi with a weight of 1.22 kilos (2.69 lbs)
- Banded palm civet with a weight of 1.27 kilos (2.8 lbs)
- Japanese marten with a weight of 1 kilos (2.2 lbs)
- Grizzled giant squirrel with a weight of 1.33 kilos (2.93 lbs)