How many baby Black-tailed dasyures are in a litter?
A Black-tailed dasyure (Murexechinus 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 6 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Dasyuridae family (genus: Murexechinus). An adult Black-tailed dasyure grows up to a size of 10.8 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:
- Bronze quoll with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Sandstone false antechinus with 4 babies per pregnancy
- Sminthopsis laniger with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Woolley’s false antechinus with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Gilbert’s dunnart weighting only 19 grams
- Julia Creek dunnart with 6 babies per pregnancy
- Little long-tailed dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Fat-tailed dunnart with 7 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern quoll with 5 babies per pregnancy
- Long-tailed planigale with 7 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Black-tailed dasyure
Those animals also give birth to 3 babies at once:
- Acacia rat
- Water deer
- Ring-tailed ground squirrel
- Southern short-tailed shrew
- Tibetan sand fox
- Nelson’s pocket mouse
- Kivu long-haired shrew
- White-ankled mouse
- Southern mole vole
- Capybara
Animals with the same weight as a Black-tailed dasyure
What other animals weight around 38 grams (0.08 lbs)?
- Mount Apo forest mouse weighting 34 grams
- Tawny deer mouse weighting 40 grams
- Japanese water shrew weighting 35 grams
- Smith’s vole weighting 35 grams
- Himalayan water shrew weighting 33 grams
- Malayan free-tailed bat weighting 31 grams
- Pen-tailed treeshrew weighting 42 grams
- Royle’s mountain vole weighting 37 grams
- Ernst Mayr’s water rat weighting 42 grams
- Defua rat weighting 43 grams
Animals with the same size as a Black-tailed dasyure
Also reaching around 10.8 cm (0′ 5″) in size do these animals:
- White-toothed brush mouse gets as big as 11.5 cm (0′ 5″)
- Long-nosed Luzon forest mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Four-toed rice tenrec gets as big as 10.7 cm (0′ 5″)
- Brazilian gracile opossum gets as big as 9.1 cm (0′ 4″)
- Stephens’s kangaroo rat gets as big as 11.6 cm (0′ 5″)
- Lesser tree mouse gets as big as 10.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Western red-backed vole gets as big as 9.8 cm (0′ 4″)
- Long-tailed vole gets as big as 11.9 cm (0′ 5″)
- Florida mouse gets as big as 10.4 cm (0′ 5″)
- Ammodile gets as big as 9.5 cm (0′ 4″)