How many baby Black-tailed dasyures are in a litter?
A Black-tailed dasyure (Antechinus melanurus) usually gives birth to around 3 babies.With 1 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 3.7 cm (0′ 2″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Antechinus). An adult Black-tailed dasyure grows up to a size of 11 cm (0′ 5″).
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-tailed dasyure (Murexechinus melanurus) is a species of marsupial in the family Dasyuridae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry forests.
Other animals of the family Dasyuridae
Black-tailed dasyure is a member of the Dasyuridae, as are these animals:
- Black-tailed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed dasyure with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Brush-tailed phascogale with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Kangaroo Island dunnart weighting only 22 grams
- Tiger quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Gilbert’s dunnart weighting only 19 grams
- Tasmanian devil with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Lesser hairy-footed dunnart with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Narrow-striped marsupial shrew with 3 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed false antechinus with 5 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Black-tailed dasyure
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Cape gerbil
- Broad-striped dasyure
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse
- Wagner’s gerbil
- Western red-backed vole
- Small Japanese mole
- Chiriqui brown mouse
- Tasmanian pygmy possum
- Southeastern shrew
- Jackson’s shrew
Animals with the same weight as a Black-tailed dasyure
What other animals weight around 38 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Ethiopian thicket rat weighting 36 grams
- Aztec mouse weighting 34 grams
- Northern mole vole weighting 40 grams
- MacConnell’s climbing mouse weighting 41 grams
- Common vampire bat weighting 33 grams
- Antillean fruit-eating bat weighting 45 grams
- Woolly horseshoe bat weighting 34 grams
- Tullberg’s soft-furred mouse weighting 37 grams
- Olrog’s chaco mouse weighting 32 grams
- Mountain pygmy possum weighting 44 grams
Animals with the same size as a Black-tailed dasyure
Also reaching around 11 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- Spectral tarsier gets as big as 12 cm (0′ 5″)
- White-tipped Oldfield mouse gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Cameroon soft-furred mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Uinta chipmunk gets as big as 12.3 cm (0′ 5″)
- Père David’s vole gets as big as 9.3 cm (0′ 4″)
- Plains viscacha rat gets as big as 12.9 cm (0′ 6″)
- Fawn antechinus gets as big as 11.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Mountain spiny pocket mouse gets as big as 11 cm (0′ 5″)
- Phillips’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 9.6 cm (0′ 4″)
- Rock vole gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)