How big does a Bronze quoll get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Bronze quoll (Dasyurus spartacus) reaches an average size of 35.6 cm (1′ 3″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 896 grams (1.98 lbs). A Bronze quoll has 6 babies at once. The Bronze quoll (genus: Dasyurus) is a member of the family Dasyuridae.
As a reference: Humans reach an average body size of 1.65m (5′ 5″) while carrying 62 kg (137 lbs). A human woman is pregnant for 280 days (40 weeks) and on average become 75 years old.
The bronze quoll (Dasyurus spartacus) is a species of quoll found only in the Trans-Fly savanna and grasslands of New Guinea and West Papua. It was discovered in the early 1970s when five specimens were collected, but only described in 1987 when Dr. Stephen Van Dyck of the Queensland Museum examined them and recognised their distinctness. As of February 2013 there are twelve public museum specimens, 8 from traps and 4 from local hunters. It is the largest surviving marsupial carnivore of New Guinea.Very little is known of it; it was previously thought to be an outlying population of the western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii).
Animals of the same family as a Bronze quoll
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Southern ningaui with 7 babies per litter
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart with 5 babies per litter
- Kowari with a size of 15.8 cm (0′ 7″)
- Red-tailed phascogale with a size of 10.8 cm (0′ 5″)
- Black-tailed dasyure with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Carpentarian dunnart with a weight of 25 grams
- Long-nosed dasyure with a size of 12.2 cm (0′ 5″)
- Antechinus wilhelmina with a size of 10.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ningbing false antechinus with 4 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Bronze quoll
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Bronze quoll:
- Rusty-spotted cat with a size of 40.6 cm (1′ 4″)
- European polecat with a size of 35.9 cm (1′ 3″)
- Tailless tenrec with a size of 32.7 cm (1′ 1″)
- Menzies’ echymipera with a size of 34.9 cm (1′ 2″)
- Mongoose lemur with a size of 35.4 cm (1′ 2″)
- Mountain cuscus with a size of 40.7 cm (1′ 5″)
- Eastern barred bandicoot with a size of 32.3 cm (1′ 1″)
- Crowned lemur with a size of 35.2 cm (1′ 2″)
- Yellow mongoose with a size of 29.2 cm (1′ 0″)
- Short-tailed chinchilla with a size of 30.5 cm (1′ 1″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Bronze quoll
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Bronze quoll:
- Brown antechinus
- Günther’s vole
- Brush-tailed phascogale
- Steppe mouse
- Eurasian pygmy shrew
- Eurasian water shrew
- California ground squirrel
- Chinese striped hamster
- Northern quoll
- Perote ground squirrel
Animals with the same weight as a Bronze quoll
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dasyurus spartacus:
- Northern sportive lemur bringing 760 grams to the scale
- Livingstone’s fruit bat bringing 733 grams to the scale
- Andean squirrel bringing 803 grams to the scale
- Tapeti bringing 988 grams to the scale
- Red-tailed sportive lemur bringing 763 grams to the scale
- Muskrat bringing 992 grams to the scale
- Travancore flying squirrel bringing 794 grams to the scale
- Cacomistle bringing 906 grams to the scale
- Cuban solenodon bringing 806 grams to the scale
- Moonrat bringing 787 grams to the scale