How many baby Kowaris are in a litter?
A Kowari (Dasycercus byrnei) usually gives birth to around 5 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 10 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 32 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6.87 kg (15.15 lbs) and measure 62.1 cm (2′ 1″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Dasycercus). An adult Kowari grows up to a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″).
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 kowari (Dasyuroides byrnei), also known as the brush-tailed marsupial rat, Kayer rat, Byrne’s crest-tailed marsupial rat, bushy-tailed marsupial rat and kawiri, is a small carnivorous marsupial native to the dry grasslands and deserts of central Australia. It is monotypical in its genus.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Kowari is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Ooldea dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Western quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Paucident planigale with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Wongai ningaui with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Three-striped dasyure weighting only 223 grams
- Narrow-nosed planigale with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Crest-tailed mulgara with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Swamp antechinus with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Tasmanian devil with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Kowari
Those animals also give birth to 5 babies at once:
- Yellow-pine chipmunk
- Tiger quoll
- Mexican ground squirrel
- Lesser hedgehog tenrec
- Northwestern deer mouse
- Long-tailed shrew
- Large vesper mouse
- Dalton’s mouse
- Mongolian gerbil
- Fringe-tailed gerbil
Animals that get as old as a Kowari
Other animals that usually reach the age of 7 years:
- Townsend’s chipmunk with 7 years
- San Diego pocket mouse with 8.25 years
- Rufous elephant shrew with 6 years
- White-tailed rat with 6 years
- Rakali with 6.17 years
- Moonrat with 7 years
- Spectacled hare-wallaby with 6 years
- Tropical pocket gopher with 7 years
- Common degu with 7.08 years
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with 8 years
Animals with the same weight as a Kowari
What other animals weight around 112 grams (0.25 lbs)?
- Long-tailed hopping mouse weighting 100 grams
- Lady Burton’s rope squirrel weighting 109 grams
- Vinogradov’s jird weighting 117 grams
- Tristram’s jird weighting 112 grams
- Whiskered flying squirrel weighting 108 grams
- Creek groove-toothed swamp rat weighting 121 grams
- Kaiser’s rock rat weighting 90 grams
- Pale leaf-eared mouse weighting 102 grams
- Masked flying fox weighting 130 grams
- New Guinean rat weighting 133 grams
Animals with the same size as a Kowari
Also reaching around 15.8 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Long-tailed hopping mouse gets as big as 13.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Coxing’s white-bellied rat gets as big as 13 cm (0′ 6″)
- Stephen’s woodrat gets as big as 16.1 cm (0′ 7″)
- Townsend’s ground squirrel gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Barbary ground squirrel gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Lorentz’s mosaic-tailed rat gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Thirteen-lined ground squirrel gets as big as 13.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dusky field rat gets as big as 15.9 cm (0′ 7″)
- Alpine pika gets as big as 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Cape York melomys gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)