How many baby Delicate slender opossums are in a litter?
A Delicate slender opossum (Marmosops parvidens) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 110 grams (0.24 lbs) and measure 13.3 cm (0′ 6″). They are a member of the Didelphidae family (genus: Marmosops). An adult Delicate slender opossum grows up to a size of 10.1 cm (0′ 4″).
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 delicate slender opossum (Marmosops parvidens) is a small pouchless marsupial of the family Didelphidae that occurs in French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, and adjacent Venezuela and Brazil. Marmosops pinheiroi, Marmosops bishopi and Marmosops juninensis had long been considered to represent the same species, until parvidens and pinheiroi were found in sympatry in French Guiana. This species is found in moist primary tropical rainforest at elevations up to 2000 m. It is nocturnal and partially arboreal, and feeds on insects and fruit.
Other animals of the family Didelphidae
Delicate slender opossum is a member of the Didelphidae, as are these animals:
- Rufous mouse opossum with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Southern red-sided opossum weighting only 48 grams
- Agile gracile opossum with 12 babies per pregnancy
- Aceramarca gracile opossum weighting only 20 grams
- Yellow-sided opossum with 12 babies per pregnancy
- Tyler’s mouse opossum with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Brazilian gracile opossum weighting only 29 grams
- Alston’s mouse opossum weighting only 132 grams
- Linnaeus’s mouse opossum with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Red mouse opossum weighting only 63 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Delicate slender opossum
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew
- Western heather vole
- Hodgson’s brown-toothed shrew
- Northern pika
- Tarbagan marmot
- Culpeo
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum
- Lesser capybara
- Tien Shan red-backed vole
- Yellow-bellied marmot
Animals with the same weight as a Delicate slender opossum
What other animals weight around 15 grams (0.03 lbs)?
- Eligmodontia typus weighting 17 grams
- Lappet-eared free-tailed bat weighting 15 grams
- Spotted-winged fruit bat weighting 14 grams
- Isabelle’s ghost bat weighting 12 grams
- Telefomin roundleaf bat weighting 15 grams
- Waterhouse’s leaf-nosed bat weighting 16 grams
- Rüppell’s horseshoe bat weighting 13 grams
- Nyika climbing mouse weighting 15 grams
- Mediterranean water shrew weighting 13 grams
- Hairy yellow-shouldered bat weighting 15 grams
Animals with the same size as a Delicate slender opossum
Also reaching around 10.1 cm (0′ 4″) in size do these animals:
- Mountain pygmy possum gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Dickey’s deer mouse gets as big as 10 cm (0′ 4″)
- Champion’s tree mouse gets as big as 12.1 cm (0′ 5″)
- Bank vole gets as big as 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- North African gerbil gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)
- Gray spiny mouse gets as big as 8.4 cm (0′ 4″)
- Red tree vole gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Big-eared woolly bat gets as big as 10.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Luzon montane forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Japanese shrew mole gets as big as 9 cm (0′ 4″)