How many baby Mahogany gliders are in a litter?
A Mahogany glider (Petaurus gracilis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 56 grams (0.12 lbs) and measure 1 cm (0′ 1″). They are a member of the Petauridae family (genus: Petaurus). An adult Mahogany glider grows up to a size of 15.2 cm (0′ 6″).
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 mahogany glider (Petaurus gracilis) is an endangered gliding possum native to a small region of coastal Queensland in Australia.
Other animals of the family Petauridae
Mahogany glider is a member of the Petauridae, as are these animals:
- Yellow-bellied glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-fingered triok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Leadbeater’s possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sugar glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Biak glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Striped possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Great-tailed triok raching a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″)
- Northern glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tate’s triok weighting only 252 grams
- Squirrel glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Mahogany glider
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Small dorcopsis
- Tasmanian pademelon
- Kolan vole
- Sun-tailed monkey
- Western gorilla
- Red forest duiker
- Microcebus coquereli
- Granada hare
- Silvery lutung
- Black wallaroo
Animals with the same weight as a Mahogany glider
What other animals weight around 361 grams (0.8 lbs)?
- Sulawesi flying fox weighting 383 grams
- Colombian soft-furred spiny rat weighting 394 grams
- European hamster weighting 429 grams
- Uinta ground squirrel weighting 307 grams
- Geelvink Bay flying fox weighting 351 grams
- Red bush squirrel weighting 365 grams
- Red-tailed squirrel weighting 319 grams
- Sulawesi naked-backed fruit bat weighting 301 grams
- Peruvian tree-rat weighting 315 grams
- Santarem marmoset weighting 375 grams