How many baby Biak gliders are in a litter?
A Biak glider (Petaurus biacensis) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 8 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 2.9 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Petauridae family (genus: Petaurus). An adult Biak glider grows up to a size of 14.5 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 Biak glider (Petaurus biacensis) is a species of marsupial in the family Petauridae. It is endemic to the Schouten Islands in the western region of Papua Province, Indonesia. It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of Petaurus breviceps (sugar glider).
Other animals of the family Petauridae
Biak glider is a member of the Petauridae, as are these animals:
- Long-fingered triok with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sugar glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Striped possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Yellow-bellied glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Tate’s triok weighting only 252 grams
- Leadbeater’s 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
- Squirrel glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Mahogany glider with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Biak glider
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Brown woolly monkey
- South American sea lion
- Red-flanked duiker
- New Britain naked-backed fruit bat
- Eastern falanouc
- White-striped free-tailed bat
- Malayan tapir
- Canyon bat
- Sclater’s guenon
- Little Japanese horseshoe bat
Animals with the same weight as a Biak glider
What other animals weight around 90 grams (0.2 lbs)?
- Pink fairy armadillo weighting 86 grams
- Definitive leaf-eared mouse weighting 89 grams
- Daphne’s Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Lowland mosaic-tailed rat weighting 85 grams
- Common mole-rat weighting 74 grams
- Green bush squirrel weighting 100 grams
- Greater nectar bat weighting 72 grams
- Strong-tailed Oldfield mouse weighting 77 grams
- Bushveld gerbil weighting 73 grams
- White-bellied woolly mouse opossum weighting 93 grams
Animals with the same size as a Biak glider
Also reaching around 14.5 cm (0′ 6″) in size do these animals:
- Congo rope squirrel gets as big as 14.7 cm (0′ 6″)
- Dian’s tarsier gets as big as 11.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Siberian chipmunk gets as big as 14.8 cm (0′ 6″)
- Phillips’s gerbil gets as big as 14.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Pygmy mouse lemur gets as big as 14.1 cm (0′ 6″)
- Marajó short-tailed opossum gets as big as 13.4 cm (0′ 6″)
- Northern red-sided opossum gets as big as 13.5 cm (0′ 6″)
- Tropical pocket gopher gets as big as 17.2 cm (0′ 7″)
- Pousargues African fat mouse gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-tailed antelope squirrel gets as big as 15.1 cm (0′ 6″)