How many baby Long-nosed dasyures are in a litter?
A Long-nosed dasyure (Antechinus naso) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Antechinus). An adult Long-nosed dasyure grows up to a size of 12.1 cm (0′ 5″).
To have a reference: Humans obviously usually have a litter size of one ;). Their babies are in the womb of their mother for 280 days (40 weeks) and reach an average size of 1.65m (5′ 5″). They weight in at 62 kg (137 lbs), which is obviously highly individual, and reach an average age of 75 years.
The long-nosed dasyure (Phascomurexia naso) is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Long-nosed dasyure is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Dusky antechinus with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Julia Creek dunnart with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Common planigale with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Kangaroo Island dunnart weighting only 22 grams
- Brown antechinus with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Bronze quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Ooldea dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Three-striped dasyure weighting only 223 grams
- Yellow-footed antechinus with 8 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Long-nosed dasyure
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Cotton mouse
- Neacomys tenuipes
- Gray climbing mouse
- Hairy harvest mouse
- Yucatan squirrel
- Kemp’s gerbil
- Japanese shrew mole
- Stella wood mouse
- Salvin’s spiny pocket mouse
- Crosse’s shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Long-nosed dasyure
What other animals weight around 54 grams (0.12 lbs)?
- Himalayan striped squirrel weighting 45 grams
- Transandinomys talamancae weighting 54 grams
- Cape short-eared gerbil weighting 54 grams
- Townsend’s vole weighting 52 grams
- European snow vole weighting 48 grams
- Edward’s swamp rat weighting 63 grams
- Euryoryzomys russatus weighting 60 grams
- Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat weighting 59 grams
- Northern grass mouse weighting 44 grams
- Greater bulldog bat weighting 45 grams
Animals with the same size as a Long-nosed dasyure
Also reaching around 12.1 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Pygmy tarsier gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Mexican mouse opossum gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern hopping mouse gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Moss-forest rat gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Patagonian opossum gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Papua grassland mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Masked flying fox gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Buller’s chipmunk gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Merriam’s chipmunk gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Bornean smooth-tailed treeshrew gets as big as 12.5 cm (0′ 5″)