How many baby Papuan bandicoots are in a litter?
A Papuan bandicoot (Microperoryctes papuensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 4.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Peroryctidae family (genus: Microperoryctes). An adult Papuan bandicoot grows up to a size of 19.3 cm (0′ 8″).
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 Papuan bandicoot (Microperoryctes papuensis) is a species of marsupial in the family Peramelidae. It is endemic to Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests. M. papuensis is a small bandicoot with a soft coat with a clear back, upper torso and face stripes. Its head to body length is 175–205 mm; tail length 142–158 mm; the hind foot length is from 43 to 47.1 mm; the ear length 25 to 28 mm and it weighs 145-184 g.
Other animals of the family Peroryctidae
Papuan bandicoot is a member of the Peroryctidae, as are these animals:
- Striped bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Common echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Raffray’s bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mouse bandicoot raching a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Clara’s echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Giant bandicoot with 1 babies per pregnancy
- David’s echymipera weighting only 817 grams
- Menzies’ echymipera weighting around 1.2 kilograms (2.65 lbs)
- Long-nosed echymipera with 2 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Papuan bandicoot
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Mediterranean monk seal
- Southern viscacha
- African brush-tailed porcupine
- Rhim gazelle
- Phayre’s leaf monkey
- Northern brushtail possum
- Toolache wallaby
- Hooded seal
- Lander’s horseshoe bat
- Oribi
Animals with the same weight as a Papuan bandicoot
What other animals weight around 158 grams (0.35 lbs)?
- Tete veld aethomys weighting 133 grams
- Palawan treeshrew weighting 168 grams
- Beaufort’s naked-backed fruit bat weighting 165 grams
- Greater Egyptian jerboa weighting 138 grams
- Middle East blind mole-rat weighting 180 grams
- Mendoza tuco-tuco weighting 179 grams
- Smoky pocket gopher weighting 150 grams
- Round-tailed ground squirrel weighting 148 grams
- Masked white-tailed rat weighting 149 grams
- New Guinean rat weighting 133 grams
Animals with the same size as a Papuan bandicoot
Also reaching around 19.3 cm (0′ 8″) in size do these animals:
- Lesser Angolan epauletted fruit bat gets as big as 16.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Biak naked-backed fruit bat gets as big as 16.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Ethiopian dwarf mongoose gets as big as 23 cm (0′ 10″)
- Royle’s pika gets as big as 17.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Tropical pocket gopher gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Silvery mole-rat gets as big as 15.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Richmond’s squirrel gets as big as 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- North African hedgehog gets as big as 21.4 cm (0′ 9″)
- Greater fairy armadillo gets as big as 15.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindoro striped rat gets as big as 17.3 cm (0′ 7″)