What is the maximal age a Dibbler reaches?
An adult Dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis) usually gets as old as 3 years.
Dibblers are around 48 days in the womb of their mother. When born, they weight 693 grams (1.53 lbs) and measure 7.8 cm (0′ 4″). As a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Parantechinus), a Dibbler caries out around 7 little ones per pregnancy, which happens around 1 times a year. Fully grown, they reach a bodylength of 14.2 cm (0′ 6″).
As a reference: Usually, humans get as old as 100 years, with the average being around 75 years. After being carried in the belly of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks), they grow to an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) and weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual.
Dibbler is the common name for Parantechinus apicalis, an endangered species of marsupial. It is an inhabitant of the southwest mainland of Western Australia and some offshore islands. It is a member of the order Dasyuromorphia, and the only member of the genus, Parantechinus. The dibbler is a small, nocturnal carnivore with speckled fur that is white around the eyes.
Animals of the same family as a Dibbler
Not really brothers and sisters, but from the same biological family (Dasyuridae):
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Western quoll becoming 5 years old
- Brush-tailed phascogale becoming 5 years old
- Stripe-faced dunnart becoming 4.83 years old
- Long-tailed dunnart becoming 5 years old
- Grey-bellied dunnart bringing the scale to 17 grams
- Kultarr becoming 3.25 years old
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Fawn antechinus becoming 2.25 years old
- Gilbert’s dunnart bringing the scale to 19 grams
Animals that reach the same age as Dibbler
With an average age of 3 years, Dibbler are in good companionship of the following animals:
- Asian house shrew usually reaching 2.5 years
- North African elephant shrew usually reaching 3 years
- Sandstone false antechinus usually reaching 3 years
- Australian swamp rat usually reaching 2.42 years
- Long-nosed echymipera usually reaching 2.83 years
- Merriam’s pocket mouse usually reaching 2.5 years
- African wading rat usually reaching 3 years
- Acacia rat usually reaching 3.5 years
- Red-tailed phascogale usually reaching 3 years
- Typical striped grass mouse usually reaching 2.5 years
Animals with the same number of babies Dibbler
The same number of babies at once (7) are born by:
- Vinogradov’s jird
- Red-cheeked ground squirrel
- Flat-skulled shrew
- Lutrine opossum
- Prairie shrew
- Northern red-sided opossum
- Common planigale
- Red-tailed phascogale
- Lesser bandicoot rat
- European hamster
Weighting as much as Dibbler
A fully grown Dibbler reaches around 72 grams (0.16 lbs). So do these animals:
- Aegialomys xanthaeolus with 79 grams
- Andean mouse with 69 grams
- Pohle’s fruit bat with 69 grams
- Eastern chestnut mouse with 79 grams
- Nephelomys keaysi with 58 grams
- Glacier rat with 66 grams
- Oecomys speciosus with 73 grams
- Euryoryzomys russatus with 60 grams
- Philippine dawn bat with 78 grams
- Palmer’s chipmunk with 60 grams
Animals as big as a Dibbler
Those animals grow as big as a Dibbler:
- Emilia’s short-tailed opossum with 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Roman mole with 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Gilliard’s flying fox with 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Snow Mountains grassland mosaic-tailed rat with 12.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed potoroo with 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Pyrenean desman with 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Père David’s mole with 14 cm (0′ 6″)
- Siskiyou chipmunk with 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Komodo rat with 16.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tate’s woolly mouse opossum with 16.8 cm (0′ 7″)