How many baby Boodies are in a litter?
A Boodie (Bettongia lesueur) usually gives birth to around 1 babies.With 3 litters per year, that sums up to a yearly offspring of 3 babies.
Each of those little ones spend around 21 days as a fetus before they are released into the wild. Upon birth, they weight 3 grams (0.01 lbs) and measure 5.2 cm (0′ 3″). They are a member of the Potoroidae family (genus: Bettongia). An adult Boodie grows up to a size of 33.1 cm (1′ 2″).
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 boodie (Bettongia lesueur), also known as the burrowing bettong, or Lesueur’s rat-kangaroo, is a small marsupial. Its population is an example of the effects of introduced animals on Australian fauna and ecosystems. Once the most common macropodiform mammal on the whole continent, the boodie now only lives on off-lying islands and in a newly introduced population on the mainland at Shark Bay. This animal, first collected during an 1817 French expedition of the west coast, was named after Charles Lesueur, an artist and naturalist who accompanied a previous French expedition.
Other animals of the family Potoroidae
Boodie is a member of the Potoroidae, as are these animals:
- Broad-faced potoroo weighting only 499 grams
- Northern bettong with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-nosed potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Rufous rat-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Gilbert’s potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Eastern bettong with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Musky rat-kangaroo with 2 babies per pregnancy
- Woylie with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Long-footed potoroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
- Desert rat-kangaroo with 1 babies per pregnancy
Animals that share a litter size with Boodie
Those animals also give birth to 1 babies at once:
- Southern long-nosed bat
- Niceforo’s big-eared bat
- Thorold’s deer
- Rio Beni titi
- Prince Demidoff’s bushbaby
- Greater dog-like bat
- Brown’s pademelon
- Naked-rumped tomb bat
- White rhinoceros
- Greater glider
Animals that get as old as a Boodie
Other animals that usually reach the age of 10 years:
- Leadbeater’s possum with 11 years
- Greater fairy armadillo with 12 years
- Tasmanian devil with 8.17 years
- Spectral tarsier with 12 years
- European hare with 12 years
- Black-flanked rock-wallaby with 12 years
- Striped possum with 9.58 years
- Jamaican coney with 8.25 years
- Brown palm civet with 12 years
- Rafinesque’s big-eared bat with 10.08 years
Animals with the same weight as a Boodie
What other animals weight around 1.45 kg (3.19 lbs)?
- Aquatic genet usually reaching 1.65 kgs (3.64 lbs)
- Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo usually reaching 1.49 kgs (3.28 lbs)
- Woylie usually reaching 1.22 kgs (2.69 lbs)
- Short-tailed mongoose usually reaching 1.4 kgs (3.09 lbs)
- Platypus usually reaching 1.48 kgs (3.26 lbs)
- Hainan hare usually reaching 1.52 kgs (3.35 lbs)
- Servaline genet usually reaching 1.24 kgs (2.73 lbs)
- De Vis’s woolly rat usually reaching 1.66 kgs (3.66 lbs)
- Grizzled giant squirrel usually reaching 1.33 kgs (2.93 lbs)
- Northern brushtail possum usually reaching 1.55 kgs (3.42 lbs)