How many baby Feather-tailed possums are in a litter?
A Feather-tailed possum (Distoechurus pennatus) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 4 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Acrobatidae family (genus: Distoechurus). An adult Feather-tailed possum grows up to a size of 11.7 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 feather-tailed possum (Distoechurus pennatus) is a species of marsupial in the family Acrobatidae. It is found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. It is not to be confused with the feathertail glider, the only other species in the family Acrobatidae.
Other animals of the family Acrobatidae
Feather-tailed possum is a member of the Acrobatidae, as are these animals:
- Feathertail glider with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Feather-tailed possum
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Grey-headed flying fox
- Collared titi
- Rufous elephant shrew
- Chestnut-bellied titi
- Thomas’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Tibetan antelope
- Hispaniolan hutia
- Long-tailed fruit bat
- Walia ibex
- Eld’s deer
Animals that get as old as a Feather-tailed possum
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2 years:
- Delany’s mouse with 2 years
- Bennett’s chinchilla rat with 2.25 years
- Honey possum with 2 years
- Mediterranean water shrew with 2 years
- Silky anteater with 2.25 years
- Wongai ningaui with 2 years
- Norway lemming with 2 years
- Common yellow-toothed cavy with 1.75 years
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with 2.33 years
- Southern Plains woodrat with 2.25 years
Animals with the same weight as a Feather-tailed possum
What other animals weight around 53 grams (0.12 lbs)?
- Namaqua rock rat weighting 57 grams
- Melanomys robustulus weighting 53 grams
- Akodon aerosus weighting 60 grams
- Moss-forest rat weighting 45 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure weighting 53 grams
- Little collared fruit bat weighting 44 grams
- Capricorn leaf-eared mouse weighting 50 grams
- Greater Wilfred’s mouse weighting 46 grams
- Senegal gerbil weighting 60 grams
- One-striped opossum weighting 55 grams
Animals with the same size as a Feather-tailed possum
Also reaching around 11.7 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Cape golden mole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Masked flying fox gets as big as 13.6 cm (0′ 6″)
- Lesser tree mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Colorado chipmunk gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 9.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Bornean water shrew gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Hylaeamys megacephalus gets as big as 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mindanao montane forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Nayarit mouse gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Akodon spegazzinii gets as big as 9.9 cm (0′ 4″)