How big does a Crest-tailed mulgara get? Here is an overview over the average adult age:
A grown Crest-tailed mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda) reaches an average size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″).
When born, they have an average size of 0 cm (0′ 0″). Usually, they reach an age of 7 years. A full-grown exemplary reaches roughly 100 grams (0.22 lbs). Talking about reproduction, Crest-tailed mulgaras have 6 babies about 1 times per year. The Crest-tailed mulgara (genus: Dasycercus) 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 crest-tailed mulgara (Dasycercus cristicauda), is a small to medium-sized Australian carnivorous marsupial and a member of the family Dasyuridae (meaning “hairy tail”) which includes quolls, dunnarts, the numbat, Tasmanian devil and extinct thylacine. The crest-tailed mulgara is among a group of native predatory mammals or mesopredators endemic to arid Australia.
Animals of the same family as a Crest-tailed mulgara
We found other animals of the Dasyuridae family:
- Kangaroo Island dunnart with a weight of 22 grams
- Agile antechinus with 10 babies per litter
- Sarcophilus laniarius with a size of 55.8 cm (1′ 10″)
- New Guinean quoll with a size of 26.9 cm (0′ 11″)
- Slender-tailed dunnart with 8 babies per litter
- Wongai ningaui with 5 babies per litter
- Fawn antechinus with a size of 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Red-cheeked dunnart with a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brown antechinus with 6 babies per litter
- Little red kaluta with 6 babies per litter
Animals with the same size as a Crest-tailed mulgara
Not that size really matters, but it makes things comparable. So here are a couple of animals that are as big as Crest-tailed mulgara:
- Dinagat gymnure with a size of 20 cm (0′ 8″)
- Egyptian fruit bat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Indian long-eared hedgehog with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Mindanao hairy-tailed rat with a size of 17.5 cm (0′ 7″)
- Sado mole with a size of 16.3 cm (0′ 7″)
- Solomon’s naked-backed fruit bat with a size of 17.4 cm (0′ 7″)
- Short-tailed hopping mouse with a size of 14.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Red spiny rat with a size of 16.7 cm (0′ 7″)
- Small sun squirrel with a size of 19 cm (0′ 8″)
- Greater tree mouse with a size of 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
Animals with the same litter size as a Crest-tailed mulgara
Here is a list of animals that have the same number of babies per litter (6) as a Crest-tailed mulgara:
- Brown antechinus
- Brush-tailed phascogale
- Greater bandicoot rat
- Cinereus shrew
- Bronze quoll
- European ground squirrel
- Eurasian water shrew
- Roborovski dwarf hamster
- Chinese striped hamster
- Steppe mouse
Animals with the same life expectancy as a Crest-tailed mulgara
Completely different animals, but becoming as old as a Crest-tailed mulgara:
- Southeastern myotis with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Numbat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Indian gerbil with an average maximal age of 7 years
- Serotine bat with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Common degu with an average maximal age of 7.08 years
- Little pocket mouse with an average maximal age of 8.25 years
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Brown dorcopsis with an average maximal age of 7.58 years
- Rufous elephant shrew with an average maximal age of 6 years
- Rufous hare-wallaby with an average maximal age of 8 years
Animals with the same weight as a Crest-tailed mulgara
As a comparison, here are some other animals that weight as much as the Dasycercus cristicauda:
- Charming climbing mouse bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Robert’s hocicudo bringing 83 grams to the scale
- Summit rat bringing 107 grams to the scale
- Sooretamys bringing 120 grams to the scale
- White-tipped tufted-tailed rat bringing 100 grams to the scale
- Common rufous-nosed rat bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Red hocicudo bringing 82 grams to the scale
- Northern three-toed jerboa bringing 89 grams to the scale
- Philippine tarsier bringing 116 grams to the scale
- Hero shrew bringing 91 grams to the scale