How many baby Ningbing false antechinuss are in a litter?
A Ningbing false antechinus (Pseudantechinus ningbing) usually gives birth to around 4 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 46 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 168 grams (0.37 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Pseudantechinus). An adult Ningbing false antechinus grows up to a size of 60.3 cm (2′ 0″).
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 Ningbing false antechinus (Pseudantechinus ningbing), also known as the Ningbing pseudantechinus, is a small species of carnivorous marsupial found in north-western Australia. It is locally common throughout the Kimberley region of Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Ningbing false antechinus is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Habbema dasyure raching a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Chestnut dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
- Sandhill dunnart with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Little long-tailed dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- New Guinean planigale weighting only 14 grams
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Crest-tailed mulgara with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Red-tailed phascogale with 7 babies per pregnancy
- White-footed dunnart with 8 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Ningbing false antechinus
Those animals also give birth to 4 babies at once:
- Pygmy gerbil
- Pale gerbil
- Black-tailed prairie dog
- Geata mouse shrew
- Gray four-eyed opossum
- Zagros Mountains mouse-like hamster
- European hedgehog
- Beaded wood mouse
- Nolthenius’s long-tailed climbing mouse
- Townsend’s chipmunk
Animals that get as old as a Ningbing false antechinus
Other animals that usually reach the age of 2 years:
- Norway lemming with 2 years
- Malabar spiny dormouse with 1.67 years
- Eurasian pygmy shrew with 2 years
- Heermann’s kangaroo rat with 2.33 years
- Southern red-backed vole with 1.67 years
- Swamp antechinus with 2 years
- Dusky antechinus with 2 years
- Tundra vole with 1.75 years
- Southern Plains woodrat with 2.25 years
- Panamanian spiny pocket mouse with 1.75 years
Animals with the same weight as a Ningbing false antechinus
What other animals weight around 20 grams (0.04 lbs)?
- Lesser yellow bat weighting 19 grams
- Ruwenzori shrew weighting 18 grams
- Canyon mouse weighting 16 grams
- Davis’s round-eared bat weighting 20 grams
- Lesser false vampire bat weighting 24 grams
- Colombian forest mouse weighting 19 grams
- Javan slit-faced bat weighting 17 grams
- Juliana’s golden mole weighting 21 grams
- White-bellied yellow bat weighting 20 grams
- Ugandan musk shrew weighting 23 grams