How many baby Northern brown bandicoots are in a litter?
A Northern brown bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 2 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 6 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 12 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 6.8 kg (14.99 lbs) and measure 1.3 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Peramelidae family (genus: Isoodon). An adult Northern brown bandicoot grows up to a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″).
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 northern brown bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus), a marsupial species, is a bandicoot found only on the northern and eastern coasts of Australia and nearby islands, mainly Papua New Guinea. It is not, however, found far inland.Northern brown bandicoot is known as Yok to the Kunwinjku of western Arnhem Land and for those still living on their country is an important food. It is stuffed with hot coals and bush herbs then covered with paperbark and cooked in a ground oven.
Other animals of the family Peramelidae
Northern brown bandicoot is a member of the Peramelidae, as are these animals:
- Desert bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Western barred bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern brown bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Golden bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Southern pig-footed bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Greater bilby with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern barred bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed bandicoot with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser bilby with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Northern brown bandicoot
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Northern three-toed jerboa
- Woodland thicket rat
- Trowbridge’s shrew
- Flat-headed shrew
- Orange-bellied Himalayan squirrel
- Smoky white-toothed shrew
- Gray fox
- Stella wood mouse
- Grizzled giant squirrel
- Red rock rat
Animals that get as old as a Northern brown bandicoot
Other animals that usually reach the age of 3 years:
- Little red kaluta with 3 years
- Salt marsh harvest mouse with 2.58 years
- Japanese shrew mole with 3.5 years
- Asian house shrew with 2.5 years
- Long-tailed pygmy possum with 3.17 years
- Typical striped grass mouse with 2.5 years
- Lutrine opossum with 3 years
- Field vole with 3.25 years
- Allen’s big-eared bat with 3.17 years
- Gray four-eyed opossum with 3.5 years
Animals with the same weight as a Northern brown bandicoot
What other animals weight around 1.51 kg (3.32 lbs)?
- Northern bettong usually reaching 1.26 kgs (2.78 lbs)
- Nasuella olivacea usually reaching 1.34 kgs (2.95 lbs)
- Angolan talapoin usually reaching 1.25 kgs (2.76 lbs)
- Atlantic titi usually reaching 1.39 kgs (3.06 lbs)
- Crowned lemur usually reaching 1.7 kgs (3.75 lbs)
- Eastern cottontail usually reaching 1.21 kgs (2.67 lbs)
- Grizzled giant squirrel usually reaching 1.33 kgs (2.93 lbs)
- White-faced saki usually reaching 1.67 kgs (3.68 lbs)
- Back-striped weasel usually reaching 1.5 kgs (3.31 lbs)
- Tolai hare usually reaching 1.59 kgs (3.51 lbs)
Animals with the same size as a Northern brown bandicoot
Also reaching around 35.4 cm (1′ 2″) in size do these animals:
- Palawan stink badger gets as big as 39 cm (1′ 4″)
- Raffray’s bandicoot gets as big as 34.6 cm (1′ 2″)
- Banded linsang gets as big as 40 cm (1′ 4″)
- Mountain cottontail gets as big as 32.4 cm (1′ 1″)
- Red-bellied lemur gets as big as 40.4 cm (1′ 4″)
- Bahamian hutia gets as big as 39.5 cm (1′ 4″)
- Eastern spotted skunk gets as big as 30 cm (1′ 0″)
- Thomas’s flying squirrel gets as big as 34 cm (1′ 2″)
- Subalpine woolly rat gets as big as 41.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Northern Luzon giant cloud rat gets as big as 38.2 cm (1′ 4″)