How many baby Narrow-striped marsupial shrews are in a litter?
A Narrow-striped marsupial shrew (Phascolosorex dorsalis) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3.5 kg (7.71 lbs) and measure 6.9 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Phascolosorex). An adult Narrow-striped marsupial shrew grows up to a size of 16.3 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 narrow-striped dasyure or narrow-striped marsupial shrew (Phascolosorex dorsalis) is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae found in West Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Narrow-striped marsupial shrew is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Agile antechinus with 10 babies per pregnancy
- Cinnamon antechinus with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Sandhill dunnart with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed dunnart with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Western quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Hairy-footed dunnart weighting only 15 grams
- Broad-striped dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Kultarr with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Short-furred dasyure weighting only 161 grams
Animals that share a litter size with Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse
- Singing vole
- California chipmunk
- Desmarest’s spiny pocket mouse
- Silky pocket mouse
- Thick-tailed three-toed jerboa
- Eastern broad-toothed field mouse
- Yellow-nosed cotton rat
- Whitehead’s spiny rat
- Kashmir flying squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
What other animals weight around 124 grams (0.27 lbs)?
- Lesser ricefield rat weighting 104 grams
- Sula rat weighting 131 grams
- Indian gerbil weighting 138 grams
- Rough-haired golden mole weighting 112 grams
- Siberian flying squirrel weighting 143 grams
- Green bush squirrel weighting 100 grams
- Highland streaked tenrec weighting 102 grams
- Masked flying fox weighting 130 grams
- Dusky spiny tree-rat weighting 108 grams
- Black-tailed tree rat weighting 125 grams
Animals with the same size as a Narrow-striped marsupial shrew
Also reaching around 16.3 cm (0′ 7″) in size do these animals:
- Southern marsupial mole gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Smoky pocket gopher gets as big as 19.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ricefield rat gets as big as 19.3 cm (0′ 8″)
- Ruwenzori otter shrew gets as big as 16 cm (0′ 7″)
- Dibbler gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)
- Four-striped ground squirrel gets as big as 18.2 cm (0′ 8″)
- Plateau pika gets as big as 17 cm (0′ 7″)
- Van Deusen’s rat gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Small sun squirrel gets as big as 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Voalavoanala gets as big as 14.2 cm (0′ 6″)