How many baby Black-spotted cuscuss are in a litter?
A Black-spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus rufoniger) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 7 grams (0.02 lbs) and measure 4.8 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Phalangeridae family (genus: Spilocuscus). An adult Black-spotted cuscus grows up to a size of 45.8 cm (1′ 7″).
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 black-spotted cuscus (Spilocuscus rufoniger) is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae. It is among the largest members of the family, only being surpassed by the bear cuscus. It is a relatively colourful species found in forests of northern New Guinea. It is threatened by hunting and habitat loss, and has already disappeared from large parts of its range. Consequently, it is rated as Critically Endangered by IUCN.
Other animals of the family Phalangeridae
Black-spotted cuscus is a member of the Phalangeridae, as are these animals:
- Mountain cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Short-eared possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Sulawesi bear cuscus weighting around 10 kilograms (22.05 lbs)
- Rothschild’s cuscus weighting around 1.37 kilograms (3.02 lbs)
- Northern common cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Silky cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Ornate cuscus weighting around 1.79 kilograms (3.95 lbs)
- Northern brushtail possum with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern common cuscus with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Common spotted cuscus with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Black-spotted cuscus
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Edwards’s long-tailed giant rat
- Western white-eared giant rat
- Thomson’s gazelle
- Southern tree hyrax
- Baird’s tapir
- Fraser’s dolphin
- Allied rock-wallaby
- Horsfield’s tarsier
- Giant bandicoot
- North American porcupine
Animals with the same weight as a Black-spotted cuscus
What other animals weight around 6 kg (13.23 lbs)?
- Agile gibbon usually reaching 5.85 kgs (12.9 lbs)
- Giant bandicoot usually reaching 4.8 kgs (10.58 lbs)
- Silvery gibbon usually reaching 5.87 kgs (12.94 lbs)
- Vancouver Island marmot usually reaching 5.24 kgs (11.55 lbs)
- Blue monkey usually reaching 5.04 kgs (11.11 lbs)
- Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth usually reaching 6.61 kgs (14.57 lbs)
- Tammar wallaby usually reaching 5.28 kgs (11.64 lbs)
- Greater mouse-deer usually reaching 5.25 kgs (11.57 lbs)
- Jungle cat usually reaching 7.16 kgs (15.79 lbs)
- Sunda pangolin usually reaching 4.86 kgs (10.71 lbs)