How many baby Lowland ringtail possums are in a litter?
A Lowland ringtail possum (Pseudocheirus canescens) usually gives birth to around 2 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 168 grams (0.37 lbs) and measure 3.3 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Pseudocheiridae family (genus: Pseudocheirus). An adult Lowland ringtail possum grows up to a size of 22.3 cm (0′ 9″).
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 lowland ringtail possum (Pseudochirulus canescens) is a species of marsupial in the family Pseudocheiridae. It’s found in Indonesia, the Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea.
Other animals of the family Pseudocheiridae
Lowland ringtail possum is a member of the Pseudocheiridae, as are these animals:
- Pseudocheirus schlegeli weighting only 256 grams
- Pygmy ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Painted ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Herbert River ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Lemur-like ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- D’Albertis’ ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Herbert River ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Coppery ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Vogelkop ringtail possum weighting only 255 grams
- Plush-coated ringtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Lowland ringtail possum
Those animals also give birth to 2 babies at once:
- Moncton’s mosaic-tailed rat
- Hershkovitz’s marmoset
- African clawless otter
- Brown hyena
- Balkan snow vole
- Lesser yellow bat
- African wading rat
- Duthie’s golden mole
- Cape short-eared gerbil
- Lesser bilby
Animals with the same weight as a Lowland ringtail possum
What other animals weight around 300 grams (0.66 lbs)?
- Drab Atlantic tree-rat weighting 260 grams
- Wyoming ground squirrel weighting 325 grams
- Bioko Allen’s bushbaby weighting 268 grams
- Robust tuco-tuco weighting 249 grams
- Spiny Ceram rat weighting 306 grams
- Coquerel’s giant mouse lemur weighting 326 grams
- Kinabalu squirrel weighting 324 grams
- Chinese zokor weighting 257 grams
- Short-tailed spiny rat weighting 285 grams
- Underwood’s pocket gopher weighting 250 grams
Animals with the same size as a Lowland ringtail possum
Also reaching around 22.3 cm (0′ 9″) in size do these animals:
- Samar squirrel gets as big as 21 cm (0′ 9″)
- Masoala fork-marked lemur gets as big as 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Black rat gets as big as 19.4 cm (0′ 8″)
- Golden lion tamarin gets as big as 26.1 cm (0′ 11″)
- Guadalcanal monkey-faced bat gets as big as 20.7 cm (0′ 9″)
- Müller’s giant Sunda rat gets as big as 23.9 cm (0′ 10″)
- Least weasel gets as big as 18.9 cm (0′ 8″)
- Unstriped ground squirrel gets as big as 22.2 cm (0′ 9″)
- Eastern gray squirrel gets as big as 25.4 cm (0′ 10″)
- Deppe’s squirrel gets as big as 20 cm (0′ 8″)